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Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Freedland

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In this shadow war between Iran and Israel, the outline of a different future is visible

When it comes to the Middle East, it’s the pessimists who look smartest. Predict the worst and you’ll rarely be proved wrong. If you are, it’s...

19.04.2024 10

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s march to victory – cartoon

12.04.2024 1

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The OJ Simpson trial was sensational – and a portent of the strife-torn America we see today

It wasn’t the Kennedy assassination, but I remember exactly where I was on 3 October 1995 when a Los Angeles jury delivered its verdict in the OJ...

12.04.2024 8

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After six months, the war in Gaza is making Israel a pariah state

Six months after the attacks of 7 October, and it’s time to count again the losses. They begin with the dead, with the 1,200 Israelis killed on that...

05.04.2024 3

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Sarah Akinterinwa on James Cleverly’s expensive Rwanda flight – cartoon

24.03.2024 50

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In defying Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu is exposing the limits of US power

The pictures out of Gaza get more harrowing with each passing day. After months of witnessing civilians grieving for loved ones killed by bombs, now...

22.03.2024 5

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Nicola Jennings on cash and the Conservatives – cartoon

17.03.2024 100

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This Tory long goodbye is toxic for the country – and making Labour’s job ever harder

We’re at the fag-end of this government, but it’s going to burn for a while longer yet. Those who hoped it might finally be stubbed out of its...

15.03.2024 6

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Joe Biden has come out fighting. But he’ll need more than grit to defeat Trump now

The president of the United States delivered his annual address to Congress on Thursday night – except what Americans and an increasingly nervous...

08.03.2024 9

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George Galloway stands accused of profiting from the pain of Gaza – and rightly so. But he is not the only one

You’re going to hear a lot of talk about George Galloway in the coming days, much of it negative and almost all of it true. But there will be one...

01.03.2024 3

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The Guardian view on the false alternatives of arts funding: we need bread but also roses

How do you put a value on culture? In this age of austerity, a political, philosophical question is too easily reduced to painful choices. Would you...

25.02.2024 50

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on what Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has done for Vladimir Putin – cartoon

23.02.2024 3

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Hamas and Netanyahu are a curse on their peoples. Yet amid the horror, there is a sliver of hope

Both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas now face a fresh set of fateful choices. The decisions they take in the next two weeks are not only a...

23.02.2024 5

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Those who attack Jews in the UK are not striking a blow for Palestine: they are behaving as antisemites always have

Jews dread the news. Maybe the entire population feels that way these days: waking to a morning bulletin consisting of wars abroad, recession at home...

16.02.2024 40

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on the ICJ’s verdict on Israel – cartoon

26.01.2024 4

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He’s beaten his Republican rivals and is ahead in the polls. But Trump is vulnerable

You’d think a week spent in the snow and ice of New Hampshire, watching Donald Trump stroll to a double-digit victory over his last remaining...

26.01.2024 6

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There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out

The few Republicans who have not succumbed to the cult of Donald Trump cling to one last hope. They are crossing their fingers that on Tuesday night...

19.01.2024 4

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South Africa brought the case, but one man dragged Israel into the dock at The Hague – Benjamin Netanyahu

There was so much history and so much tragedy in that room. For two days, ending today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague...

12.01.2024 2

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s ‘working assumption’ about the date of the election – cartoon

07.01.2024 30

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Storm Trump is brewing – and the whole world needs to brace itself

It is not a prediction, but it is a possibility – and a growing one. Barring a major upset, Donald Trump is on course to be the Republican nominee...

05.01.2024 4

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A prison, a courtroom and a war zone – even in the darkest places there are points of light

Think of it as yet another invented tradition. There are a lot of them about at this time of year, but here’s mine. In recent years, for the last...

22.12.2023 4

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There’s only one way out of this Gaza war and Netanyahu is blocking it. Joe Biden must force him from power

Joe Biden’s bond with Israel and the Jewish people runs so deep he is said to feel it in his kishkes (that’s “guts”, for the non-Yiddish...

15.12.2023 6

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Israel wants to slay the monster next door, but with this lethal bombardment, it is feeding it

When will it end? Some ask that question in despair, willing an end to the pictures of crushed buildings and destroyed lives, the succession of bleak...

08.12.2023 7

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In its war against Hamas, Israel faces a tragic choice between two different routes to disaster

And on the eighth day, the war began anew. After a week of joy and relief for those Israeli families reunited with loved ones held hostage by Hamas,...

01.12.2023 3

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Too many taking sides in this conflict miss the true nature of Hamas – and Netanyahu

Know thine enemy – and know thine ally, too. Too many of those pushing for one outcome or another in the war between Israel and Hamas misjudge the...

17.11.2023 6

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Beware Suella Braverman and all the other vultures bent on exploiting Jewish and Muslim pain

There is a special place in hell reserved for people who exploit the pain of others – and it’s becoming very crowded. It’s filling up with those...

10.11.2023 7

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Once this war between Israel and Hamas is over, a deeper conflict looms

Beneath the surface of the war between Israel and Hamas, another conflict rages. In this clash, the battle lines are drawn in a very different place,...

03.11.2023 3

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The Guardian view on the Rugby World Cup: a showcase for free televised sport

It is difficult for sports other than football to run compelling World Cups because not enough countries play the game to make it truly global – or...

29.10.2023 10

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The tragedy of the Israel-Palestine conflict is this: underneath all the horror is a clash of two just causes

This is not a football match. Though the way some spectators behave, watching from afar, you could be forgiven for making that mistake. At...

27.10.2023 1

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on US attempts to stop the Israel-Hamas war widening – cartoon

20.10.2023 3

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Warning: Benjamin Netanyahu is walking right into Hamas’s trap

You cannot think straight when you’re in pain. That’s truer still when the pain is combined with fury at those who caused it. There’s a reason...

20.10.2023 3

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After the pogrom in Israel, the angel of death is licking his lips

The word pogrom was not meant to exist in Hebrew. In the new Israel, the very idea of Jews being murdered en masse, their children butchered before...

13.10.2023 2

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I’ve got news for Rishi Sunak: he no longer leads the conservative party

W hat would it be like if Britain had a conservative party? Odd to ask that now, on the eve of the Conservative party conference, but the coming week...

29.09.2023 2

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Rupert Murdoch’s toxic legacy? The powerful can now blame the world’s ills on ‘the elite’

I t’s too soon to write the obituary. Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he is transitioning – an unlikely combination of words, I grant you –...

22.09.2023 2

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From small boats to industry and science: how much evidence do we need that Brexit made our lives worse?

I t was only an aside. Keir Starmer wasn’t planning to talk about Brexit, but a subject almost as perilous for his party: migration. Still, Good...

15.09.2023 6

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The Guardian view on political portraiture: putting faces to history

T wo portraits, two very different stories of Britain. Saied Dai’s painting of Theresa May, unveiled this week, is the latest example of what has...

10.09.2023 30

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Take another look at Joe Biden. His is the presidency progressives have been waiting for

T he tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has...

08.09.2023 4

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