Amiel's journalism became known, according to Andy McSmith in 2007, for her "ferocious" defence of Israel and as an opponent of the BBC. She wrote in September 2003 that while "it is too late to kill Arafat," the "conflict in the Middle East is not amenable to a peaceful solution and can only be solved by the total victory of one side" either by "the Arabs annihilating the Israelis or the Israelis being forced to use every means, not excluding nuclear power, to defend themselves." She was accused in 2002 by Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, former editor of "The Sunday Telegraph", of writing "enragingly narrow-minded and logic-choppingly unpersuasive apologies for Israel". After Amiel lost her "Daily Telegraph" column in May 2004, Worsthorne described her, of all Black's "neo-conservative columnists", as the "worst of the lot".