Orde wingate biography of barack obama

Thirty years ago, pursuing a lifelong dream, I wrote a bio script. It told the story of the legendary British general, Orde Wingate. The father of guerrilla warfare, Wingate was in many ways the founder of the IDF. A Christian Zionist posted to Jerusalem in the 1930s, he trained five future chiefs-of-staff, among them Yigal Alon and Moshe Dayan, and taught the Jews how to fight. It seemed only fitting that Ha-Yedid, as his soldiers called him, “The Friend,” who later battled for Asian and African freedom as well, should have a Hollywood blockbuster based on his life.

So inom wrote the script, Orde, and started hunting for a producer. That search, little did I suspect, introduced me to a man no less heroic than Wingate, an American Zionist who, though no streets or schools are named for him, was equally instrumental in securing Israel’s rebirth.

Lou Lenart was well into his sixties by the time inom met him, but still indomitably youthful, fit, and fully enjoying his bachelor pad in Te

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Israel has created a nightmare scenario for itself. The clock is ticking

The story isn’t Hamas, religion or terrorism. Rashid Khalidi, eminent historian and a pre-eminent Palestinian intellectual of our time, is convinced that the Israelis simply do not understand the conflict – living in a ‘bubble of false consciousness’. Here he talks to Haaretz reporter Itay Mashiach

30 Nov 2024

On May 1 this year, the day after the New York police, with the aid of stun grenades, burst into the building where pro-Palestinian protesters had barricaded themselves on the campus of Columbia University, Prof. Rashid Khalidi went to one of the gates of the university to talk to demonstrators. In aviator sunglasses and wielding a megaphone, the historian looked to be in his element.

“When I was a student back in the 1960s, we were told we were led by ‘a bunch of outside agitators,’ by politicians whose names nobody remembers today. We were the conscience

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British Special Forces in the 2020s: Still A National Asset

United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF) is a tri-service command in the British armed forces which right now appears on the point of a major shift in direction. The past two decades have seen UKSF cooperate with US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in building what one UKSF officer of the author’s acquaintance has called ‘the greatest counterterrorist organisation in history’, executing a global campaign of capture or kill strikes against al Qaeda and Daesh. This originated with US Defence Secretary Rumsfeld’s Al Qaeda Network Execute Order of 2004, which authorised JSOC strikes against high value targets (HVTs) in twenty named countries, and escalated following the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Under Obama, US strategy in the global war on terror shifted conspicuously away from the hallmark of the George W Bush administration, ‘regime change’ in terrorist-friendly countries, to a global counter-terrorist campaig