Can Benjamin Netanyahu survive? How cigars could bring down Israel’s biggest political survivor
On the corruption investigations encircling the Israeli prime minister, and what they reveal about power, impunity, and the country’s political future.
Essays and reported pieces for the New Statesman, focusing on Israel–Palestine, Syria, and the European far right’s entanglement with the politics of the Middle East.
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On the corruption investigations encircling the Israeli prime minister, and what they reveal about power, impunity, and the country’s political future.
Reporting from Lebanese camps where activists linked to Germany’s far right court Syrian refugees with promises of support – and warnings about migration.
A portrait of a family in Syria’s last rebel-held province, and how their hopes depend on the fragile ceasefire negotiated by Ankara and Moscow.