Neville Teller

Born in London and educated at Oxford University, Neville combined a career in the Civil Service with writing for BBC radio as dramatist and abridger. In addition, he has been commenting on the Middle East political scene for some 35 years, with five books published on the subject.
LEBANESE PRESIDENT Joseph Aoun receives a letter of credence from incoming US Ambassador Michel Issa at the presidential palace in Baabda last month. Aoun is opposed to creating a distinct Hezbollah entity within the army, says the writer.

The Lebanese 'reset': Hezbollah may survive in more limited, but dangerous, form - opinion

The Lebanese government's equivocation means that Hezbollah could yet survive in perhaps a more limited, but still highly dangerous, form.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025
Manfred Goldberg with wife, Shary.

Manfred Goldberg: Holocaust educator par excellence - in memoriam

The family’s calm existence was shattered after Kristallnacht in November 1938. Manfred, still a primary school pupil, was forced with his classmates to sweep up the charred remains of a burnt shul.

NOVEMBER 29, 2025
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Argentinian President Javier Milei embrace in the Knesset in June. The Isaac Accords are an initiative by Milei aimed at strengthening ties between Israel and Latin American countries, the writer notes.

Israel Allies Foundation expands global pro-Israel network - opinion

The Isaac Accords have consolidated a core bloc of Latin American pro-Israel countries and elevated bilateral trade and innovation exchanges.

NOVEMBER 24, 2025

The game is afoot: The race to rebuild Gaza and win its major investment opportunities - opinion

Gaza’s forthcoming regeneration program offers significant investment, industrial, and commercial opportunities for a wide range of potential players, regional and international. The game is afoot.

NOVEMBER 16, 2025
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds the signed agreement at the international summit on ending the Israel-Hamas War, in Sharm el-Sheikh last month. Despite his hostility to Israel, he demonstrates a calculated pragmatism, the writer notes.

Whistleblower details BBC bias in Israel coverage - opinion

The UK’s 'Daily Telegraph' revealed the contents of a 19-page whistle-blowing document listing numerous examples of blatant bias in BBC news coverage, in which Israel is cast as the aggressor.

NOVEMBER 10, 2025
General view of the BBC Television studios at Media City in Salford, Britain, March 13, 2023

'Zaidy's Band': Revealing Canada’s contribution to World War II - review

Aron Heller's new book brings into the public arena the little-publicized history of the contribution in World War II of the Canadian Armed Forces, particularly its Jews.

NOVEMBER 8, 2025
THREE OF Zaidy’s comrades lie side by side in the military cemetery in Rehovot.

Ireland’s anti-Israel president: Connolly's victory shows where the public leans - opinion

The majority of Irish opinion regards the Palestinian Arabs as a Middle East version of themselves.

NOVEMBER 3, 2025
CATHERINE CONNOLLY addresses a demonstration against the sale of Israeli bonds throughout the EU, outside the Central Bank of Ireland in Dublin, in May. Last week, she was elected overwhelmingly as Ireland’s new president.

A narrow set of choices for Gaza: What’s the future for Hamas? - opinion

Following the Gaza ceasefire and the completion of the hostage-prisoner exchange, Hamas faces a narrow set of strategic choices.

OCTOBER 27, 2025
A DRONE VIEW shows destruction in Gaza City last week. In a poll conducted in May 2024, some 70% of Gazans approved of Hamas’s onslaught on October 7, 2023. One year later, that support had shrunk to 38%, the writer notes.

'Frequencies of Deceit': Propaganda broadcasting in the heyday of the radio age - review

From the previously under-appreciated source of radio broadcasting, Margaret Peacock sheds new light on how and why today’s Middle East has developed.

OCTOBER 26, 2025
KING GEORGE V delivers the 1934 Royal Christmas Message on BBC Radio.

Gang war in Gaza: Determining the future of Hamas's rule - opinion

Hamas is now facing open defiance from not just one or two but multiple armed groups.

OCTOBER 19, 2025
A HAMAS TERRORIST stands guard in Khan Yunis last week. As of the end of last month, over a dozen new anti-Hamas armed groups had emerged, reflecting a virtual collapse of Hamas’s monopoly on territorial control and security, the writer argues.

'Moses Maimonides': A Cornell professor’s look at the Rambam - review

Images in the book include a responsum in Maimonides’s own hand, signed “Moshe” by him. It is one of many such documents discovered in the Cairo 'geniza,' a storage of Hebrew and Aramaic documents.

OCTOBER 19, 2025
Engraving Maimonides in ‘Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum,’ 1744 by Blaisio Ugolino.

Keir Starmer’s Palestinian state recognition: Sacrificing principle to domestic politics - opinion

Faced with domestic pressures, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer sacrificed principle for appeasement in recognizing a Palestinian state.

OCTOBER 16, 2025
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.

Palestinian leadership post-Gaza war: Who are the prospective leaders of the future? - opinion

Who are the prospective Palestinian leaders of the future?

OCTOBER 13, 2025
THEN-MIDEAST envoy Tony Blair speaks at a news conference with then-PA prime minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah, 2008. Blair would no doubt support Fayyad as a candidate for the Gaza technocratic committee, says the writer.