‘Gaza Yet Stands’…or does it?
Alluding to Messenger’s description of Samson’s pulling the pillars down in Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Donald Macintyre will point out how the poem underlines the age-old nature of conflict over Gaza.
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Jerusalem correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2012 and author of Gaza: Preparing for Dawn, Macintyre has written for the i, Tortoise Media (for whom he also presented a podcast on Benjamin Netanyahu in April 2024) and the Observer. Before going to Jerusalem, he was successively Political Editor and Chief Political Commentator of The Independent.