Nick Gray is Director of Christian Middle East Watch (www.cmew.org.uk), a Christian organisation dedicated to bringing objective facts and balance to the discussion on the Middle East and particularly on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He blogs at http://cmewonline.com and tweets at @CMEW2
Great Christmas in Bethlehem, but Christians need more
It isn't all sad news for Christians in the Middle East. But a happy moment is not the beginning of a new dawn of tolerance for the world's most oppressed religious group
- 3 December 2013
Hold the phone. Who are you calling a Palestinian?
Modern "Palestinians" have been manipulated by two generations of corrupt and cold-hearted leaders into an identity they did not have just 65 years ago. Try telling that to the BBC or the United Nations
- 28 November 2013
“Mood-based attacks” but no third intifada - yet
As long as the Palestinian leadership insists on spreading lies and false hope, "mood-based attacks" will continue against Israelis
- 20 November 2013
The British Church’s love/hate relationship with Israel
The Church's relationship with Israel is all a bit Jekyll and Hyde. Why?
- 12 November 2013
British Church consultation could be a BDS turning point
The Methodist consultation on BDS is a most welcome change to what has become the normal attitude to Israel-related issues in the church
- 5 November 2013
Is a cold war reprise coming in the Middle East?
The vacuum threatened by an apparent change in US policy could return the Middle East to the old alliances – if not the antagonism – of the Cold War
- 29 October 2013
Why Jerusalem Arabs have no voice
There is a very simple reason why Arabs in Jerusalem have no voice, and it's not the fault of Israel
- 21 October 2013
Whatever happened to Hamas?
To the whole world, a forlorn and friendless Hamas is revealing itself as a brutal, self-serving regime; showing no regard for the well-being of its own people
- 15 October 2013
There's hope yet for Israel-Palestinian peace
In Jerusalem, the reality is that people will get on with each other if you let them. The hope may lie at the bottom not the top
- 7 October 2013
Britain's failing Israel boycott campaign
The Israel boycott movement is (rather hilariously in the quoted case) flopping in the UK. Maybe steam is running out of any enthusiasm for boycott campaigns that have zero effect on Israel’s economy
- 2 October 2013
What is Russia's game really?
Russia needs to believe it is a global superpower. It is filled with resentment at what it has "lost", and will do whatever it takes not to lose influence in the MidEast and elsewhere
- 16 September 2013
Israel-Palestine: Nine months of talks, but will there be a baby?
So what makes anyone think these talks will lead anywhere except where they've always led before (that's nowhere, by the way)?
- 30 July 2013
So who’s blockading Gaza now?
Gaza’s southern neighbour is causing her more pain than Israel is claimed to have done
- 12 July 2013
Prepare for war over the Balfour Declaration
As the centenary of the pivotal “Balfour Declaration” looms in 2017, a new group wants Britain to apologise for making it
- 5 June 2013
Israel’s report on the Al Durrah affair
Combat zone reporters have the responsibility of bringing us news; not a political statement that fits someone else's politics or nationalism
- 24 May 2013
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