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Articles of the author David Hirst
The price of failure in Iraq
The US Iraqi enterprise was meant to transform the entire Middle East to the benefit of the Americans. Ironically, it is the US failure now that threatens to spread elsewhere, writes David Hirst, in Beirut In the New York Review of Books veteran (...)

03 - 06 - 2004
Wagging which way
Between Bush and Sharon, David Hirst asks which is the tail and which is the dog Few disputed at the time that Israel was a factor that pushed Bush to go to war on Iraq. Just how much weight it had among all the others was the only controversial (...)

23 - 10 - 2003
Strange Bed-fellows
Caught between the involuntary complicity of two improbable bed-fellows -- anti-Arab zealots in Washington and anti-American reformists in Syria -- Syria's "old guard" is just playing the waiting game, writes David Hirst in Damascus Fadil Shururu, (...)

14 - 08 - 2003
And now for Mr Hyde
David Hirst, in Riyadh, finds Saudis intensely worried that their erstwhile mighty protector, the US, is looking more and more as a grave threat You won't find the newly published Hatred's Kingdom in any Saudi bookshop, but it is so much in demand (...)

10 - 04 - 2003
In extremis
Iraq's salvation now seems to hinge on Saddam himself -- or even on an assassin, writes David Hirst in Beirut In March 1988, I was in the first party of journalists to visit the Iraqi border town of Halabja, just conquered by the Iranian army, and (...)

06 - 02 - 2003
A new, post-9/11, Middle East
War against terror or war on the Arabs? America's Middle East policy after 11 September is pushing the region towards disaster, writes David Hirst, and a US colonial order There is no better place to take the pulse of Arab and Muslim sentiment than (...)

12 - 09 - 2002
Fiendish predicament
Pressing Arafat to carry out reform is not necessarily in Sharon's favour, writes David Hirst There must be Palestinian reforms. That is the great new prescription for Middle East peace making, supposedly to come back to life -- after almost (...)

06 - 06 - 2002
Protégé or patron?
Having a rogue for an ally is undermining Washington's ability to strike at its roguish enemies. David Hirst writes Since the Taliban's defeat, the US has been focusing on that long-standing "rogue state" and newly-anointed member of the "axis of (...)

25 - 04 - 2002
Writing off Arafat?
If Arafat does go down, he will take a lot with him, writes David Hirst, and the alternative will not be to Israel's liking If all had gone according to plan, Yasser Arafat would, round about now, have been installing himself in Jerusalem as (...)

13 - 12 - 2001
A new Middle East state in the making?
It is ten years since Iraq's northern provinces threw off the yoke of Saddam Hussein to become the Western protected enclave of 'liberated' Kurdistan. Of all the unfinished business of the Gulf War, writes David Hirst from Northern Iraq, this could (...)

09 - 08 - 2001
'Here I shall die'
A besieged yet optimistic Arafat, dreaming of living and dying in Jerusalem, meets David Hirst in Ramallah Arafat: then and now Yasser Arafat often describes his struggle as a "long march" to the "spires and minarets" of Jerusalem, capital of his (...)

03 - 05 - 2001
Pounding the fault lines
News analysis Pounding the fault lines David Hirst, in Beirut, examines the fault lines that run through the last militarily active frontier between the Arabs and Israel It has long been feared that the Palestinian Intifada would widen into a (...)

19 - 04 - 2001
The US, Saddam and Sharon
By David Hirst The Israelis have just elected a prime minister who, brought before the bar of international justice, would surely be judged a war criminal in the class of, say, Ratco Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander as firmly associated with the (...)

22 - 02 - 2001
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