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Boots on the Ground: Journeys in a War-Torn Middle East

Jerusalem Post, 13/10 The Turkish military this week scouted Syria’s Idlib province, in the north west of the country, in preparation for a military operation in the province.  The deployment of a reconnaissance team into Idlib came days after Turkish … Continue reading →

Details regarding my upcoming book, to be published on December 1st: https://www.amazon.com/Days-Fall-Reporters-Journey-Syria/dp/1138561207

The Australian, 30/9: “I sometimes think if we’re just going to be stuck here like this, we should just use paintball instead of live ammunition. Probably it’s ­because I’m older but I think a bit differently to the other guys … Continue reading →

Jerusalem Post, 15/9   Turkey this week announced its purchase of the S-400 anti aircraft missile system from Russia.  The deal,  according to western media reports, is worth $2.5 billion.   Turkish President Recep Tayep Erdogan told Turkish media that the … Continue reading →

Jerusalem Report, August,2017. Ukraine is a territory saturated in Jewish memory.  Memory both tragic and sublime.  In every field of endeavor –  religious thought,  Zionist and socialist politics, art, music, military affairs, science, Jews from the territory on which the … Continue reading →

  Jerusalem Post, 24/8 ‘Shooting Ghosts’  is a joint memoir, depicting the friendship, experience of war and trauma and long road to recovery of two very different individuals.   Finbarr O’Reilly is a veteran Canadian photojournalist, formerly of the Reuters wire … Continue reading →

Jerusalem Post, 25/8 A flurry of diplomatic activity is currently taking place in the Syrian and Iraqi arenas. While the moves are occurring on separate and superficially unrelated fronts, taken together they produce an emergent picture. That picture is of … Continue reading →

Jerusalem Post, 28/8 Goodbye ‘Timber Sycamore’: What will the end of the CIA program providing support to Syria’s rebels mean for the future direction of the Syrian conflict? President Donald Trump recently appeared to confirm a number of media reports … Continue reading →

American Interest, 17/7 The recent two-day visit of Narendra Modi to Israel, the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister, has been depicted as heralding a new strategic partnership between New Delhi and Jerusalem. Indeed, simply by taking place at all, … Continue reading →