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Bumping into the right people

Bumping into the right people

Diplomats spend their careers writing “cables” that report, record, recommend and instruct. This lifetime habit of writing has fed a minor Australian tradition of foreign affairs books by retired diplomats The Oz-diplomat genre offers views of Australia from overseas posts and from inside the unusual city that is Canberra. The
A door in the desert

A door in the desert

President Trump’s Board of Peace met last week. A few days later his Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, a man of many talents gubernatorial and pastoral, told Tucker Carlson, ‘It would be fine if they took it all.’ He was referring to a pretty big patch of territory around the current borders of Israel. ‘Israel,’ he told Carlson, ‘is a land that God ...

Bumping into the right people

Bumping into the right people
Diplomats spend their careers writing “cables” that report, record, recommend and instruct. This lifetime habit of writing has fed a minor Australian tradition of foreign affairs books by retired diplomats The Oz-diplomat genre offers views of Australia from overseas posts and from inside the unusual city that is Canberra. The

A door in the desert

A door in the desert
President Trump’s Board of Peace met last week. A few days later his Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, a man of many talents gubernatorial and pastoral, told Tucker Carlson, ‘It would be fine if they took it all.’ He was referring to a pretty big patch of territory around the current borders of Israel. ‘Israel,’ he told Carlson, ‘is a land that God ...