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
Time to get a grip over Israel-Palestine conflict
The ridiculous and self-destructive Palestinian leadership continues to mourn the entirely just and legitimate re-establishment of Israel. But that's no excuse for people in the West to indulge this nonsense, especially while carnage engulfs the MidEast
- 16 May 2015
Victory for Netanyahu and success all round for Israel
When it came down to putting envelopes in boxes, “King Bibi” was the candidate who has shown a willingness to face up to international pressure (particularly from the US) and not to back down on the nation’s security in successive failed peace talks with the rejectionist Palestinians
- 18 March 2015
Anti-Israel Anglican vicar “temporarily unavailable”
Amazing as it may sound, vicars in the Church of England can actually go too far in their hostility to Israel. Rev Sizer's website link to a 9/11 conspiracy theory blaming Israel for the attacks has got him into big trouble
- 16 February 2015
Christian leaders be careful what you link to
The extraordinary case of an English Christian vicar using social media in Holocaust Memorial week to highlight conspiracy theories that Israel perpetrated the 9/11 attacks shows how casual and unyielding hatred of the Jewish state has become in mainstream Britain
- 31 January 2015
Spare a Christmas prayer for the suffering MidEast Christians
This Christmas, spare a prayer for the persecuted Christians of the Middle East, oppressed and terrified as never before. They need to know that our thoughts are with them
- 25 December 2014
Common sense invades Brussels over Palestine?
Fatah, like Hamas, would like Israel to somehow disappear, but (being “moderate”) they are prepared to wait a bit longer to see it happen. The EU is still no friend of Israel, but in its recent vote it gave Fatah and Abbas a well-deserved snub
- 18 December 2014
EU wants to recognise a “Palestine” that doesn’t exist
There is no state in existence today that can legitimately be called “Palestine” except the one state that chooses not to: Jordan. The EU and the wider West make peace harder and terror more likely with their anti-Israel antics
- 30 November 2014
Israel supporters fight back against the boycotters
It's a standing joke among supporters of decency that the anti-Israel boycott crowd is going to end up boycotting itself since Israeli technology is so essential to modern life. Now there's an app to really ram it home to the bigots
- 21 November 2014
How Britain harms Israel-Palestine peace prospects
The absurdity of the UK parliamentary vote recognising a Palestinian state is that Israel has accepted one for generations, only for that very Palestinian state to be rejected by the Palestinians themselves, who remain committed to destroying Israel
- 16 October 2014
Freezing Hamas out of Gaza is the only hope for its future
Even in spite of all the shocking bias and misreporting from Gaza, it may now be dawning on many in the West, playing catch-up with much of the Arab world, that Hamas, like ISIS, simply has to go
- 19 August 2014
Is America supporting Hamas?
How did the US end up on the wrong side of the equation? It is surely clear to everyone, except the Obama administration it seems, that if peace is to have a real chance Hamas must be disarmed and Gaza must become demilitarised
- 3 August 2014
Hamas and Fatah: A match made in hell
What will it take to demonstrate to Western purse-holders that “reconciliation” is a match made in hell, not heaven, for all concerned?
- 4 June 2014
Pope Francis in the Holy Land - a political pilgrimage?
Was Pope Francis's visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories the purely spiritual event intended?
- 27 May 2014
Some good decisions at last in Middle East talks crisis
As the doomed-from-the-start Israel-Palestinian talks finally crumble into dust, some good decisions have finally come from all sides, from Israel and, strangely and perversely, the Palestinians too
- 7 April 2014
Israel-Palestine peace talks head for inevitable failure
A whole generation of Palestinians has grown up under PA-sanctioned incitement to hate Israelis and Jews and has been encouraged to continue "the resistance". That's no basis for any kind of peace
- 26 March 2014
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