Donald Macintyre

The Independent's Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, Donald Macintyre was the paper’s Chief Political Commentator for eight years and before that Political Editor of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. He has written for the Daily Express, Sunday Times, Times and Sunday Telegraph.

Donald Macintyre: Who gets hurt most in this dispute? The ordinary people of Gaza

Clearly shocked by conditions in Gaza, Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, said yesterday: "I cannot believe that Israeli ordinary people understand what is being done in their name; they couldn't possibly support it if they did."

Recently by Donald Macintyre

Donald Macintyre: This dispute is hurting the ordinary people of Gaza

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Clearly shocked by conditions in Gaza, Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, said today: "I cannot believe that Israeli ordinary people understand what is being done in their name; they couldn't possibly support it if they did."

The truth about Brown and Mandelson

Saturday, 4 October 2008

Donald Macintyre: Their relationship has always been more complex than the caricatures suggest

Donald Macintyre: A constant – and candid – friend of Israel

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

It was a historic moment – and Gordon Brown rose to the occasion

Donald Macintyre: To be in favour of peace is not anti-Israeli

Thursday, 28 February 2008

It started with an internet campaign against Robert Malley. Malley, who worked on the Clinton team at the failed Camp David Israel-Palestinian peace talks in 2000, had fetched up in a long list of people who advise Barack Obama on foreign policy.

Donald Macintyre: Olmert's real moment of truth has yet to come

Friday, 1 February 2008

Talking with a few foreign journalists 10 days before Wednesday's Winograd report on the 2006 Lebanon war, a senior member of Israel's cabinet suggested that the report would not unseat Prime Minister Ehud Olmert but that his negotiations with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas might.

Donald Macintyre: The EU should demand more from Israel

Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Everyone in northern Gaza knows the bridge at the entrance to Beit Hanoun. When Mohammad Shtayyeh, the chairman of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction, remarked recently that, since the beginning of the intifada in 2000, the bridge had been destroyed three times by Israeli forces and rebuilt each time by the European Union, no one in the Middle East aid world needed to ask what he was talking about.

Donald Macintyre: Does Israel want to seize this opportunity?

Thursday, 22 November 2007

Some time in the mid-1990s, James Baker, who a few years earlier had probably done more than any other US Secretary of State to pressure Israel into making peace with the Palestinians, attended a dinner in Jerusalem given by the then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. Coming under fire from several of his fellow-guests, he told them: "I know that in Israel I am always suspect. I am not regarded as a friend here. A day will come and you will realise that I, of all people, was a true friend of Israel."