Donald Macintyre



Profile:
Full name: Donald Macintyre (not Donal MacIntyre the Irish investigative journalist or Donald Macintyre ex-Time magazine journalist)

Area of interest: Middle East

Journals/Organisation: The Independent

Email: [mailto:d.macintyre@independent.co.uk d.macintyre@independent.co.uk]

Personal website:

Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/donald-macintyre

Blog:

Representation:

Networks: http://il.linkedin.com/pub/donald-macintyre/12/b1/210



Biography:
About:

Education: Christ Church, Oxford; Cardiff School of Journalism

Career: The Sunday Times: labour editor; The Sunday Telegraph: political editor; joined The Independent (on its launch) in 1988: political editor; chief political commentator, 1996/2004; Jerusalem correspondent, 2004- Current position/role: Jerusalem correspondent


 * also writes/written for:

Other roles/Main role:

Other activities:

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight:
 * Peter's friends? Hardly, The Sunday Herald, 2nd May 1999, reviewed by Simon Freeman

Broadcast media:

Video:

Controversy/Criticism:
 * BBC News: Mandelson faces new challenger, 5th May, 2001 - covers John Booth's (former Labour chief press officer) libel action over comments made in Macintyre's biography of Mandelson
 * Illusions Of Liberty - ITN, The BBC, And A Few Stupid Questions, (see paragraph: 'Interviewing The Invaders'), MediaLens.org, 25th April 2003

Awards/Honours:

Scoops:

Other:



Books & Debate:

 * Mandelson and the Making of New Labour (2000) OCLC 46879822

Latest work:

Speaking/Appearances:

Debate: 

The Independent:
Column name:

Remit/Info: Middle East

Section:

Role: Jerusalem correspondent

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:d.macintyre@independent.co.uk d.macintyre@independent.co.uk]

Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/donald-macintyre

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Varies

Regularity: Infrequent

Column format:

Average length:



Articles:

 * Exactly how is Tony Blair going to re-engage with British politics? - It was hard yesterday to find anyone quite sure about the meaning of Tony Blair “re-engaging” in UK politics, especially as he has already begun to do so quietly - 3rd May 2012
 * Inhabitants of 'Area C' have been neglected - If nothing else the EU report is a sign that the international community has woken up to the problems of Area C – including what it describes bluntly as the "forced transfer" of Palestinians from their land - 12th January 2012
 * How the West was caught out by the Arab Spring - The Year of Revolution: In the first of a series of articles on the Middle East's tempestuous year, Donald Macintyre explains how decades of diplomatic strategy was undone by the popular risings - 26th December 2011
 * Egypt vote key to success of any Fatah-Hamas reunification - The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's announcement yesterday that he will meet the Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, in Cairo next week follows yet another round of speculation that the four-year-old schism between the factions is nearing its end - 17th November 2011
 * Why sincerity of Israeli leader is doubted - it is safe to assume that Mr Sarkozy has become increasingly unconvinced of Mr Netanyahu's sincerity in saying he is willing to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians - 9th November 2011
 * Markets have faith in the European high command - Economic Life: If banks must raise more capital they will lend less and charge more. A safer banking system is a more expensive one - 14th October 2011
 * Whatever else happens, this represents a massive shake-up in the conflict - The prisoner swap foreshadowed in the deal approved by Israel's Cabinet last night is a huge shake of the kaleidoscope through which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been viewed - 12th October 2011
 * In Gaza, opposition to the UN statehood bid is almost as fierce as in Israel - Our writer tests the mood on the ground in Gaza City - 23rd September 2011
 * and division in the land that would be Palestine'' - An eyewitness account... - 21st September 2011
 * A flurry of diplomacy, but outcome remains uncertain - The Americans and Mr Blair have been trying to persuade Mr Abbas to accept a new formula - 17th September 2011
 * Now is the moment for Israel to talk - Netanyahu should remove the obstacles to credible negotiations - 15th September 2011
 * Britain's spies recruited an extremely unlikely ally - The history of Britain's relations with Libya over the past 30 years is replete with ironies, of which being at war with a regime which less than a decade ago it was taking the lead in courting is only the most recent - 3rd September 2011
 * in Libya is no longer a wild fantasy'' - assuming that in the coming days and weeks, the revolution is completed, it faces unprecedented challenges ahead - 25th August 2011
 * compound was the ultimate symbol of the tyrant's power'' - Bab al-Aziziyahh was a mixture of barracks, regime headquarters and holiday village - 24th August 2011
 * these strikes work, they'll buck a decades-long trend'' - Whenever national strikes have been threatened in this century, ears have been pricked to detect the distant echoes of those in the last one – especially now that there is the prospect of industrial struggle against a Conservative government - 16th June 2011
 * realism pervades Hamas-Fatah negotiations'' - Israelis are willing to negotiate with a coalition including Hamas if it brings peace - 29th April 2011
 * sanctions and propaganda lies a reality of shortages and ballooning prices'' - In the covered fish market inside the old souk in central Tripoli yesterday, Osama Ahmed Omar, a fishmonger as well as a fisherman, brandished a giant prawn - 8th April 2011
 * Western leaders look for an exit, here is an option that may prove irresistible'' - Analysis: A further obstacle is the role that Saif has played. His public appearances have hardly been those of a statesman - 5th April 2011
 * display of eccentricity and menace reinforces sense of a threatened autocracy'' - The White House was said to be "analysing" Saif Gaddafi's televised speech in the early hours of yesterday. You could only wish them good luck - 22nd February 2011
 * Arab 'street' is more complex than we grasp'' - International Studies: For decades, pundits, including those in the Middle East itself, have talked airily about the Arab "street". It is a convenient if somewhat patronising term, of course – a necessary nod to the fact that there are peoples in the region as well as regimes - 3rd February 2011
 * will have more to say on this titanic warrior'' - It is surprising that the legacy of so titanic a figure as Ariel Sharon does not figure more in Israeli public discourse than it does - 19th October 2010
 * Ahmadinejad's enemies have refused to dignify his antics with a response'' - The far right-wing backbench Knesset member Aryeh Eldad said the visit was a good opportunity to assassinate the Iranian President – an act he suggested would be like 'assassinating Hitler in 1939' - 15th October 2010
 * Netanyahu can't halt the building, there is no hope'' - Unless Mr Netanyahu simply announces that he is extending the present moratorium for another three months he will once again have been seen to deflect US pressure, and without notable political cost - 25th September 2010
 * still occupying minds in the West Bank'' - As long as there is occupation there will be resistance. This is a reaction to what the Israelis do - 2nd September 2010
 * talks bring peace at last?'' - The question is whether Netanyahu remains the opportunistic rightist of old - 23rd August 2010
 * of the Westminster memoir'' - Mandelson has set a precedent by the haste with which he rushed in to print - 17th July 2010
 * won't give up its policy of ambiguity'' - This was a dark period in the country's foreign relations - 25th May 2010
 * man who can secure Labour's future'' - David Miliband has a real chance of appealing to a wide range of electors - 15th May 2010
 * Lib Dems can talk to Cameron, but their future is surely with Labour'' - The Lib Dems could be tough enough to insist that Brown should go, if not immediately, at least on a set timetable, perhaps after the PR referendum- 8th May 2010
 * legacy may be a party never again able to rule alone'' - In the last of his dispatches on the party leaders, Donald Macintyre is struck by the indomitability of a man facing an electoral disaster that could scar the movement he loves for generations - 5th May 2010
 * is at home in the spotlight. Voters are still in the dark'' - For the second of his dispatches on the party leaders, Donald Macintyre followed David Cameron's campaign around the country – and found more questions raised than answered about the Tory leader's plans for Britain - 4th May 2010
 * journey to the promised land'' - what we are seeing here is much more than one man's stardom. Is it possible that Britain's third party is about to realise the goal that eluded the Social Democrat-Liberal alliance nearly a quarter of a century ago - 3rd May 2010
 * Conservatives' dilemma is even worse than Labour's'' - David Cameron hesitates to go on the attack, but polls may force him to - 20th April 2010
 * election of 2001 feels like a long time ago'' - John Prescott's punch is the only event most people can remember about it - 9th April 2010
 * murder mystery no nearer solution'' - With another 15 suspects named by Dubai police in connection with the extrajudicial killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the conclusion to a saga which would strain the credulity of even an avid spy novel reader seems no closer - 26th February 2010
 * public relations won't improve Israel's image abroad'' - 'We must delegitimise the delegitimisers' the Prime Minister has been quoted as saying - 22nd February 2010
 * can't afford to sit this one out'' - Israel's Zionist left is deeply disappointed with the US and EU's failure to intervene - 25th January 2010
 * they, won't they launch a coup?'' - You can't find a Labour figure who doesn't believe their chances better without Brown - 1st January 2010
 * of the Year 2009: The Middle East'' - As Israel unleashed its fury on Gaza, peace never stood a chance - 23rd December 2009
 * throw down challenge to Obama and UN'' - As so often in the Middle East, we have been here before. The latest suggestion – that a frustrated Palestinian leadership would unilaterally declare a state and invite international recognition for it – is not new - 17th November 2009
 * jewry and Israel's interests'' - J Street challenges the monopoly of AIPAC which sees itself as the voice of US jews - 23rd October 2009
 * may galvanise Security Council'' - View from Israel:Israel will regard the latest revelations about the Iranian enrichment plant as a handsome vindication of its view that Tehran has been persistently cheating the world on the scale of its nuclear ambitions - 26th September 2009
 * Israel finally bend to America's pressure for peace?'' - The gamble is that Netanyahu will be driven by a desire for a place in history - 24th July 2009
 * anger at Britain may protect US negotiations'' - In detaining local employees of the British embassy in Tehran, the Iranian authorities appear to have mined a deep vein of hostility toward Britain which has lasted, off and on, since the latter's imperialist grandeur in the 19th century - 29th June 2009
 * Israeli PM's reference to the 'S' word spell peace?'' - For the first time in his long political career Benjamin Netanyahu managed to say "Palestinian state". That much is a result for Barack Obama, despite the qualifications that came with it - 15th June 2009
 * moment of decision'' - He must respond to a US President who has a worthy impatience to secure peace - 13th JUne 2009
 * view from Gaza - 'This was a speech we are not used to hearing''' - At the very moment President Obama was denouncing Palestinian violence, the live al-Jazeera transmission in Gaza City's al Waha café was rendered briefly inaudible by heavy static – assumed by all present to be caused, as it usually is, by overhead Israeli surveillance drones - 5th June 2009
 * Israel's macho character'' - Jerusalem Notebook: Lane discipline, a term almost never heard here, is strictly for wimps - 1st June 2009
 * battle of wills lies ahead. For now, we have a beginning'' - Way back during the US Democratic primaries Barack Obama told a Jewish audience in Ohio that being pro-Israel did not mean signing up to every tenet of the country's biggest right-wing party, Likud. Since then, of course, the Likud leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has become Prime Minister, and there was always bound to be heightened interest in the first meeting of the two men as heads of their respective governments - 19th May 2009
 * can steer Israel to peace'' - A new President and new Prime Minister have one last chance to broker a two-state solution - 5th April 2009
 * hopes now for peace in the Middle East?'' - A right-wing Israeli government could concentrate minds in Washington - 20th March 2009
 * will be close, but Israel has lurched to the right'' - Can the centre hold? The immediate question at the heart of tomorrow's Israeli election, is whether Tzipi Livni can wrest the prize from the reborn right-wing Likud under a man widely judged to have failed when he left office as prime minister a decade ago - 9th February 2009
 * what will it take for Israel to stop fighting?'' - Politicians in Jerusalem are split over the aims of the war - 7th January 2009
 * regime change the ultimate goal?'' - Israel is playing a 'wait and see' game to test Hamas's resolve and international opinion, but it is a high-risk strategy that could backfire - 5th January 2009
 * of Lebanon return to haunt Israel'' - Livni adopts hardline stance against truce as candidates seek votes - 1st January 2009 (see: Gaza Strip airstrikes)
 * Tzipi Livni ready to take the risks needed to secure peace?'' - Those backing a two-state solution feel that time may be running out - 8th December 2008
 * 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." - 5th November 2008
 * truth about Brown and Mandelson'' - Their relationship has always been more complex than the caricatures suggest - 4th October 2008
 * A constant – and candid – friend of Israel - It was a historic moment – and Gordon Brown rose to the occasion - Tuesday, 22nd July 2008
 * To be in favour of peace is not anti-Israeli - Thursday, 28th February 2008
 * Olmert's real moment of truth has yet to come - a senior member of Israel's cabinet suggested that the Winograd report would not unseat Prime Minister Ehud Olmert but that his negotiations with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas might - 1st February 2008
 * The EU should demand more from Israel - The EU has long been reluctant to increase its political profile in contrast to its money in the Middle East. And nobody denies that the US is paramount. Yet the EU has a locus, both because of its aid to the Palestinians and its role as a major trade partner of Israel - 26th December 2007
 * Does Israel want to seize this opportunity? - 22nd November 2007
 * Like it or not, Europe and America are going to have to start talking to Hamas - Their exclusion risks shifting Hamas's centre of gravity even further towards the hardliners - 17th August 2007



news & updates:


Links:

 * Palestine: Information with Provenance database (PIWP)