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Australia/Israel Review

UNRWA is portrayed as the “backbone” of Gaza aid efforts, but actually supplied only 13% of aid there over recent months (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

An empire of perpetual suffering

November 20, 2024 | Seth Frantzman

Foreign Minister Penny Wong and PM Anthony Albanese have degraded our relationship with our most important Middle Eastern partner (Screenshot)

The consequences of Australia’s Mideast policy shifts since October 7

November 20, 2024 | Jamie Hyams

An extension of the Abraham Accords that saw a string of Middle Eastern countries making peace with Israel is likely to be a priority (Image: Whitehouse.gov/ Flickr)

Trump and the Middle East

November 20, 2024 | Ray Takeyh

French UNIFIL soldiers in southern Lebanon (Image: Shutterstock)

Lebanon: Optimism and obstacles

November 20, 2024 | Lazar Berman

Rabbi Genende (3rd from left) with Christian and Muslim delegates at the Abrahamic Peace Working Group conference in Bandung, Indonesia

The Last Word: Abrahamic angst and aspirations

November 20, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

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Media Microscope: Resolutionary change

November 20, 2024 | Allon Lee

Protests on the streets of Auckland (Image: Rick Neves/ Shutterstock)

AIR New Zealand: Rising antisemitism in NZ is ignored

November 20, 2024 | Miriam Bell

Saddam Hussein astonished everyone with his WMD achievements in the 1980s, and then by secretly dismantling the program in the 1990s (Image: X)

Biblio File: Blind man’s bluff in Iraq

November 20, 2024 | Paul Monk

Projections upon buildings in Doha, Qatar, after the death of Ismail Haniyeh (Image: X)

Qatar obfuscates over Hamas

November 20, 2024 | Yaakov Lappin

BRICS and its "partner countries" (Image: BRICS website)

Asia Watch: Among friends

November 20, 2024 | Michael Shannon

“Don’t cry – smile a little. It’s best to smile, even to laugh, as long as you still can” – the final message of renowned Holocaust historian Prof Yehuda Bauer (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Essay: “We don’t have another people”

November 20, 2024 | Yehuda Bauer

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Noted and Quoted – December 2024

November 20, 2024 | AIJAC staff