Monday’s paper
October 1, 2025
Trump backtracking
America will soon need friends to stand up to China. Donald Trump is learning to understand that Europe, which he detests, is simply indispensable.
America will soon need friends to stand up to China. Donald Trump is learning to understand that Europe, which he detests, is simply indispensable.
Monday’s paper
September 14, 2025
To defend Palestine is to defend Israel
Like half of Israelis and a large proportion of Jews in Europe and America, Emmanuel Macron believes that only by doing justice to the Palestinians can Israel ensure its long-term survival.
Like half of Israelis and a large proportion of Jews in Europe and America, Emmanuel Macron believes that only by doing justice to the Palestinians can Israel ensure its long-term survival.
Israel can end the conflict. Netanyahu must finally realise this
If only the Israelis knew how to offer negotiations to the Palestinians on the terms of peaceful coexistence between their two states. The complete victory Israel has just won would enable it to base its national security on this noble offer.
If only the Israelis knew how to offer negotiations to the Palestinians on the terms of peaceful coexistence between their two states. The complete victory Israel has just won would enable it to base its national security on this noble offer.
Monday’s paper
June 16, 2025
Victorious, Netanyahu must now choose
Benjamin Netanyahu now has everything he needs to transform himself into a man of peace, as he will soon have won on all fronts.
Benjamin Netanyahu now has everything he needs to transform himself into a man of peace, as he will soon have won on all fronts.
Monday’s paper
May 19, 2025
Calling things by the wrong name…
Should we or should we not refer to what is happening in Gaza as ‘genocide’ and should we recognise Palestine without further delay? These are the two questions that are now impossible to discuss in Paris without the tone inevitably rising. So let us try to address them calmly and with all cards on the table.
Should we or should we not refer to what is happening in Gaza as ‘genocide’ and should we recognise Palestine without further delay? These are the two questions that are now impossible to discuss in Paris without the tone inevitably rising. So let us try to address them calmly and with all cards on the table.
Monday’s paper
May 12, 2025
It’s Time
I assured them that the European Parliament would press for this. I promised that France would recognise Palestine. I expressed my hope that she would not do so alone. Perhaps I spoke too boldly too soon, but I did so because it is time.
I assured them that the European Parliament would press for this. I promised that France would recognise Palestine. I expressed my hope that she would not do so alone. Perhaps I spoke too boldly too soon, but I did so because it is time.
You will win because you are utopians
There is only one solution, the one which is deemed foolish, unrealistic, utopian, impossible to implement and already dead: the two-state solution.
There is only one solution, the one which is deemed foolish, unrealistic, utopian, impossible to implement and already dead: the two-state solution.
Monday’s paper
October 7, 2024
Westerners must relearn what it means to speak out
Emmanuel Macron was not wrong. When Joe Biden called for the fighting in Gaza to stop, coherence would dictate that he no longer supply the weapons that sustain the fighting. Even a child would understand this, but where is the coherence when this same Emmanuel Macron postpones the recognition of Palestine until who knows when, even though France has always…
Emmanuel Macron was not wrong. When Joe Biden called for the fighting in Gaza to stop, coherence would dictate that he no longer supply the weapons that sustain the fighting. Even a child would understand this, but where is the coherence when this same Emmanuel Macron postpones the recognition of Palestine until who knows when, even though France has always defended the idea of coexistence between two states, Israel and Palestine, and he has himself endorsed this idea?