Why Hamas will not surrender
Sunday 27-April-2025
The scale of the suffering that Israel has inflicted on all Palestinians within its reach has meant that Hamas’ fate is Palestine’s too.
David Hearst
David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst on Saudi Arabia. He was the Guardian's foreign leader writer and was correspondent in Russia Europe and Belfast. He joined the Guardian from The Scotsman where he was education correspondent.
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Israel’s annexation plan is the Nakba revisited
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The US embassy opens a new era of bloodshed
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The outside world with its shattered limbs and destroyed lives had been surgically removed from the consciences of those at the US embassy in Jerusalem.
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Friday 28-July-2017
So much Palestinian sovereignty has already been surrendered over east Jerusalem that al-Aqsa is well and truly the last stand.