By Harvey Morris The golden rule of Israeli politics has always been to avoid any public spat with the Americans. The theory was that the electorate would punish any politician who endangered the country’s relationship with its closest and most powerful ally. Benjamin...
By Harvey Morris The destruction of ancient artifacts by militants of the Islamic State in areas under their control in northern Iraq goes beyond the ancient tradition of sectarian iconoclasm. In the religious turmoil of the Byzantine Empire, zealots destroyed images...
By Harvey Morris It was the spring of 1991. A few weeks earlier America and its allies had ousted Saddam Hussein’s invading forces from Kuwait, providing the signal for rebellions among his oppressed Kurdish and Shia communities in Iraq. In the north, the Kurds had...