Introduction

Abstract

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the ultimate challenge for an international correspondent. Covering other major stories may demand resourcefulness, knowledge of history, politics, culture, and faith, judgement, bravery. Reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can demand all of those qualities. It usually demands all of them at the same time. For that reason, it has, at one time or another, drawn many of the greatest journalists working in international news. The conflict has so far defied a solution. The world’s interest, while it flags from time to time, has never gone away. Diplomats, too, are drawn to it: tempted, perhaps, by the hope of succeeding where none has previously managed.