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“... its members and from other militant factions, and because Israel has never needed much pretext to go to war. In 1982, it broke its ceasefire with Arafat’s PLO and invaded Lebanon, citing the attempted assassination of its ambassador to London, even though the attack was the work of Arafat’s sworn enemy, the Iraqi agent Abu Nidal. In 1996, during a period ...”

“... since there’s a pair of almost identical socks on display at the V&A, where the curators go into a lot more detail about the circumstances of their discovery: ‘Excavated in the burial grounds of ancient Oxyrhynchus … It is unclear whether the socks formed offerings to the dead or were used as foot coverings.’ Still, even if no Roman legionary ...”

“... casket and loses his chance of her hand in marriage: ‘A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go./Let all of his complexion choose me so.’ As a bugbear, Muslims were no match for the Spanish, who seemed a much more potent and present threat to English religion and government. The intelligence agent William Herle wrote that Philip II, the king of ...”

“... essay on the novel now demand correction. Seymour-Smith wants us to see Hardy both as the Cerne Abbas giant of English literature, and, like his woodlander Giles Winterbourne, as a ‘good man who did good things’. But in making Hardy ‘good’, in fighting off any mention of his obsessions, superstitions and dark fantasies, he has sadly diminished ...”

“... Arab underdog. He believed in a negotiated settlement, and had backed Mendès-France and Ferhat Abbas while the colons called for his blood. But he was appalled by carnage – from either side. And, as his last novel La Chute made very clear, he realised the inescapable contradictions of his personal plight. The car crash that killed him in 1960 came too ...”

“... roof of their house by the bomb which destroyed a Humvee on the road outside. It was bizarre to go early one morning to look at the nondescript and wholly undefended villa from which Kenneth Bigley, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley had just been kidnapped by ten masked men. Could they have taken seriously the line pumped out by the White House and Downing ...”

“... would almost certainly win, which may be the real reason that, in late April, President Mahmoud Abbas indefinitely postponed the legislative election scheduled for 22 May.Privately, Netanyahu and the Israeli army have always had an interest in keeping Hamas in power in Gaza. Israel allowed the movement to flourish in its early years as a counterweight to ...”

“... was concluded on 31 October 1995 by Yossi Beilin, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, and Mahmoud Abbas (better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mazen), a close adviser to Arafat. This bold document made a first stab at resolving all the outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinians. It envisaged an independent but demilitarised Palestinian ...”

“... rebel and a charismatic preacher of national liberation. When not giving sermons at the al-Abbas mosque in Gaza City, Yassin ran a civic religious organisation to provide social services the Israeli occupation neglected or destroyed. But life under the occupation led him to conclude that the logic of Gaza was that of war, not of alleviating ...”

“... to the U.S.’ – the ostensible subject of their conversation. We might take Shafi’s cue and go on to ask the equally important question that hangs unspoken in the air: ‘Will you, can you, do justice to us?’ Questioners who need to see themselves as professional and disinterested do not like to have the roles reversed, to become the objects of an ...”

“... with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which the snakes were raised. Otherwise more little snakes will be raised there.’ Shaked is a member of the settlers’ political party, Habayit Hayehudi (the Jewish Home), whose leader, Naftali Bennett, is Netanyahu’s ...”

“... Hollywood mystic M. Night Shyamalan; while the Cahiers critics’ top feature of 2002 (along with Abbas Kiarostami’s groundbreaking Ten) was Choses secrètes by Jean-Claude Brisseau, a veteran mystifier of female sexuality whose films recall 1970s-style luxury erotica with a lick of Marx and Nietzsche. But as for giving in to ‘listless market ...”

“... that he believed the change had begun in earnest in September 2003, after Arafat forced Mahmoud Abbas – a favoured figure in Washington – to resign as prime minister. Angry and frustrated, Bush called Blair. He complained that the Europeans ‘were dancing around Arafat’, while the US was left to do the ‘heavy lifting’ with Israel. Bush also ...”

“... Here, a domesticated Orpheus, he twangs his guitar: and listened to the notes I drew go echoing underground then somewhere in the afternoon the thrush’s quick reply – Is this ‘quick’ in the old sense of ‘alive’, or ‘quick’ because the thrush’s song is short, or because the protagonist’s eagerness for a response has blotted ...”

“... the world,’ said Nabil, a businessman who was sitting on a chair in the street watching voters go by. ‘He killed two people, both Iraqis. One of them was a mentally ill man everybody liked who’d never recovered from his son being killed in the Iran-Iraq war.’ A few hundred yards further down the road was a battered white kiosk where a middle-aged man ...”