IDF, Shin Bet launch major operation in northern West Bank
August 28, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
There has been an alarming escalation of security threats from the northern West Bank in recent months.
The UN continues to ignore Israeli victims of terrorism
August 28, 2024 | Justin Amler
In the entrance hall to the United Nations in New York, there’s an exhibition reminding those visitors of the victims of terrorist attacks from around the world. But among the many exhibits of attacks, including those in New York, Boston and in Kenya, there’s one glaringly obvious group that is missing.
Hezbollah, not Israel, is the enemy of the Lebanese people
October 1, 2024 | Oved Lobel
Hezbollah, not Israel, is the enemy of Lebanon and Lebanese sovereignty and is grossly violating multiple elements of international law, not least by its indiscriminate, unprovoked attacks on Israelis that sparked the conflict.
Want to stop an Israel-Hezbollah war? Look to Teheran
September 30, 2024 | Bren Carlill
Restoring calm across the Israel-Lebanon border requires the international community to accept something about which it has long been in denial: Iran is fighting a cold war with the West. Hezbollah-Israel fighting is merely proxy warfare.
A Kafkaesque time for the Jewish people
September 27, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
Antisemitism should matter to all Australians… The failure of religious leaders, politicians and people of good conscience to loudly condemn the desecration of a synagogue space or the violent invective against Jews – from city councils to protest rallies, from schools to shopping centres – is dangerous. For while it may begin with the Jews, it certainly won’t end with them.
A strategic game changer
September 24, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
The new strategic reality with which Israel is faced has catalysed fundamental changes in the way Israel defends itself. This article will look at several of those likely changes… a year after October 7 and its aftermath showed the old conceptzia was no longer fit for purpose.
Preventing the West Bank from becoming Gaza
September 24, 2024 | Neomi Neumann
According to ISA estimates, about 15 battalions from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian factions are currently operating in the West Bank. Each has dozens of fighters as well as commanders, financiers, and sabotage experts, resulting in attacks that are increasingly sophisticated and daring.
The Last Word: Beyond this year of shattered hope
September 24, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
It has been a year of shattered pieces, fragmented bodies and fractured hopes. Broken pieces, broken hearts, broken hopes. So much has been crushed and damaged for the Jewish people. It’s hard to let go of the dark images…
