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.
Why Ahmadinejad's enemies have refused to dignify his antics with a response
Donald Macintyre: The far right-wing backbench Knesset member Aryeh Eldad said the visit was a good opportunity to assassinate the Iranian President – an act he suggested would be like 'assassinating Hitler in 1939'.
Recently by Donald Macintyre
Donald Macintyre: If Netanyahu can't halt the building, there is no hope
Saturday, 25 September 2010
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Settlements still occupying minds in the West Bank
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Donald Macintyre: As long as there is occupation there will be resistance. This is a reaction to what the Israelis do
Donald Macintyre: Can talks bring peace at last?
Monday, 23 August 2010
The question is whether Netanyahu remains, as many Bibi-watchers believe, the opportunistic rightist of old or whether he has decided he wants a real place in history
Donald Macintyre: Revelations will not make Israel give up its policy of ambiguity
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Revelations in Sasha Polakow-Suransky's book that talks between Israel and South Africa on the sale of missiles and warheads took place a generation ago have turned a harsh new spotlight on Israel's long-held policy of ambiguity over its nuclear arsenal.
Donald Macintyre: The man who can secure Labour's future
Saturday, 15 May 2010
David Miliband has a real chance of appealing to the widest range of electors
Donald Macintyre: Labour's leadership needs the stamp of a genuinely new era
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Labour needs to occupy the Opposition benches with its taste for power intact, as it failed to do after Thatcher's victory in 1979
Donald Macintyre: The Lib Dems can talk to Cameron, but their future is surely with Labour
Saturday, 8 May 2010
The Lib Dems could be tough enough to insist that Brown should go, if not immediately, at least on a set timetable, perhaps after the PR referendum
Donald Macintyre: The Conservatives' dilemma is even worse than Labour's
Monday, 19 April 2010
David Cameron hesitates to go on the attack, but polls may force him to.
Donald Macintyre: The election of 2001 feels like a long time ago
Friday, 9 April 2010
Returning to the campaigning fray after nine years away, our writer encounters another political world
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I now firmly believe that satnavs are an elaborate practical joke.
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