Ian Black
Ian Black was the Guardian's Middle East editor, European editor, diplomatic editor and foreign leader writer in 36 years on the paper. He is now a visiting senior fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE. His latest book is Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017.
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The changing face of one West Bank city, and the ‘overwhelming reality’ of continued Israeli control
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The Wall Street Journal writer gives a compelling insider account of the deadly ambition of the Assads
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It’s time to get off the fence and resolve this most toxic of global conflicts, says former Guardian Middle East editor Ian Black
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After decades of hostility, a shared hatred of Iran – and a mutual fondness for Trump – is bringing Israel’s secret links with Gulf kingdoms out into the openPodcast
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Former Israeli spymaster who captured the SS officer Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in a daring 1960 secret mission
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Saudi Arabian journalist who fell foul of his country’s ruling dynasty after moving abroad so he could criticise it more freely
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Book of the day Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations – review
With remarkable access to officials and reports, Ronen Bergman’s revealing book lays bare Mossad’s kill operations
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Hopes for reviving any Israeli-Palestinian negotiations now look like a remote fantasy
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For decades, Haifa has been Israel’s model of what a ‘mixed’ Jewish-Arab city could be. But as the country’s 70th anniversary nears, the strain is showing
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28 March 1988: Vanunu gave the Sunday Times details of his eight years employment at a top-secret nuclear research centre in Israel
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Steve Coll delivers a brilliant account of America’s secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan after the invasion of 2001
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Abbas’s Ramallah speech may read like a two-state epitaph – but his political realism endures, writes the Guardian’s former Middle East editor Ian Black
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Riyadh has spoken out against US threats to move its diplomatic HQ from Tel Aviv but will the president listen?
The US’s Middle East ‘peace summit’ is nonsense. Palestinians are right to boycott it