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But, apply the filter, and there is some insight. Pilger was a brilliant journalist. The reportage was top notch. You can draw your own inferences (I never let another man or woman draw my inferences for me. That sort of opinion feeding is for the brain dead Mail and New Statesman readers).

On my second visit to Israel, I was driven through Tel Aviv by an old (former Bulgarian) Jew. Top lad. Works in my area (which is why I was there). Ferocious experimentalist. He pointed at some buildings with what looked like pock marks on the walls...... "That's where I shot at the British in...

And a lack of vision of what success would look like. Parachute in a load of diasporate, arm them and let them get on with it? Well, they will secure the territory and expand. It is what people do. A classic bit of British 'couldn't give a fuckery' with what happens to the post colonial...

When I moved to Vancouver in 1982 (lived there for 4 years) and when I spent time in Dunedin (after a job - which was offered and I declined) in 1996, my thoughts were identical. "This must have been how it was like in Eastbourne in the 1950s". Vancouver has kicked on a lot (for example, now...

I was charged £100 for a 2 minute taxi ride (talked it down to £20) by a Palestinian taxi driver (the only taxi drivers working on the Sabbath). My hotel called the police. And yet....I was driving through Jerusalem with a colleague who pointed at some Jewish blokes with ringlets and black...

I agree that the original idea to ship the diaspora back to a land long since occupied by others, without any discussion with the others, was wrong. Nearly 90 years later, however, we are where we are. We can't simply throw the Jews into the sea (which is what the Palestinians want, and which...

Golan. But you're right. I visited there 30 years ago and was shown around. There was an abandoned tank and other detritus. Before the Israelis pushed the border back a bit, the Syrians used to use the vantage point to take casual pot shots at the Israeli settlements. I have seen it with my own...

When I thought about moving to NZ in the 90s, I discovered it had one of the worst male teenage suicide rates in the world. This was attributed to the 'macho' rugby culture and austere Scottish heritage, which may suit some, but not most teenage boys. If one of the questions asked of everyone...