“It’s amazing how the arrest of a 66-year-old man in Norfolk has raised the spirits of the entire country,” remarked a reader on the letters page of the Guardian this week. “Perhaps a few more arrests are in order.” The 66-year-old man was Mr Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, until recently known as Prince Andrew in polite circles […]
The Iranian regime is brutal, fanatical and corrupt. It has just committed the mass murder of its own citizens in the city streets and in their own homes. But the story we are told about Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is very misleading. Let’s begin with the two President George Bushes. Just twelve years after
It’s so sad. That poor, kindly man on the phone at all hours of the day and night, 79 years old and still trying to do good and bring peace and that, but as soon as he hangs up they’re right back at war again. First it was Africa in June, when Rwanda and the
Gaza: Not Quite the Final Solution By Gwynne Dyer “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas [from Qatar],” Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu told the parliamentary members of his Likud Party in 2019. They were questioning his policy of backing
Iran: Much Ado About Nothing By Gwynne Dyer I don’t get a lot of face-time with Donald Trump, but his rant on Tuesday in front of the chopper that was to take him to the airport and on to the Nato summit in Brussels was the first time I heard him say ‘fuck’ in front
The Next Forever War By Gwynne Dyer He didn’t take two weeks to make up his mind whether or not to bomb Iran; only two days. Donald Trump is not a patient man. But he has just started another American ‘forever war’ in the Middle East, so he will have plenty of time to work
Where Shall We Put the Palestinians? By Gwynne Dyer Reckless people fling accusations of attempted genocide in Gaza at the Israeli coalition government and the Israel Defence Force (IDF) every day, but the scale of the operation is not remotely big enough to justify that word. IDF snipers and/or civilian American gunmen of the so-called
800 words (700) 27 March 2025 Iran: A Long Fuse is Lit By Gwynne Dyer Maybe it was the fact that we were coming up on the tenth anniversary of the treaty Donald Trump destroyed that prompted him to start issuing threats to Iran again. The treaty, obscurely named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
19 January 2025 The Middle East: Where Next? by Gwynne Dyer In the eighty hours between Wednesday,15 January, when the Gaza ceasefire agreement was announced, and Sunday, 19 January, when it went into effect, Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 123 Palestinians including dozens of women and children. The Israel Defence Force (IDF)
29 December 2024 Iran: End of the Line? By Gwynne Dyer Six months ago, at the end of Iran’s presidential election, I finished an article by speculating that the long-lived theocratic dictatorship in Iran may be a lot closer to its end than its beginning: “If you can plausibly say ‘This cannot go on forever’,