Donald Macintyre

The Independent's Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, Donald Macintyre was the paper’s Chief Political Commentator for eight years and before that Political Editor of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. He has written for the Daily Express, Sunday Times, Times and Sunday Telegraph.

Donald Macintyre: Obama can steer Israel to peace

A new President and new Prime Minister have one last chance to broker a two-state solution

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Donald Macintyre: What hopes now for peace in the Middle East?

Friday, 20 March 2009

A right-wing Israeli government could concentrate minds in Washington

Donald Macintyre: It will be close, but Israel has lurched to the right

Sunday, 8 February 2009

Can the centre hold? The immediate question at the heart of tomorrow's Israeli election, is whether Tzipi Livni can wrest the prize away from the reborn right-wing Likud under a man widely judged to have failed when he left office as Prime Minister a decade ago.

Donald Macintyre: So what will it take for Israel to stop fighting?

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Politicians in Jerusalem are split over the aims of the war

Donald Macintyre: Lessons of Lebanon return to haunt Israel

Thursday, 1 January 2009

Livni adopts hardline stance against truce as candidates seek votes in Israeli elections

Donald Macintyre: Who gets hurt most in this dispute? The ordinary people of Gaza

Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Clearly shocked by conditions in Gaza, Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, said yesterday: "I cannot believe that Israeli ordinary people understand what is being done in their name; they couldn't possibly support it if they did."

Donald Macintyre: This dispute is hurting the ordinary people of Gaza

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Clearly shocked by conditions in Gaza, Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, said today: "I cannot believe that Israeli ordinary people understand what is being done in their name; they couldn't possibly support it if they did."

The truth about Brown and Mandelson

Saturday, 4 October 2008

Donald Macintyre: Their relationship has always been more complex than the caricatures suggest

Donald Macintyre: A constant – and candid – friend of Israel

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

It was a historic moment – and Gordon Brown rose to the occasion

Donald Macintyre: To be in favour of peace is not anti-Israeli

Thursday, 28 February 2008

It started with an internet campaign against Robert Malley. Malley, who worked on the Clinton team at the failed Camp David Israel-Palestinian peace talks in 2000, had fetched up in a long list of people who advise Barack Obama on foreign policy.

Donald Macintyre: Olmert's real moment of truth has yet to come

Friday, 1 February 2008

Talking with a few foreign journalists 10 days before Wednesday's Winograd report on the 2006 Lebanon war, a senior member of Israel's cabinet suggested that the report would not unseat Prime Minister Ehud Olmert but that his negotiations with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas might.

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