Pay-for-Slay is likely still Pay-for-Slay
March 7, 2025 | Alana Schetzer
When embattled Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced that the PA would restructure its ‘pay-to-slay’ policy – its system of financially rewarding imprisoned terrorists, or the families of terrorists killed – in late January, the news was met with a mix of cautious optimism and scepticism.
The missing pieces of the Thai hostages story
February 21, 2025 | Allon Lee
On January 30, the world’s eyes were focused on Israeli hostages… as they were released in Gaza after close to 500 days in captivity. Far less attention was given to five Thai workers… who found their freedom after also being kidnapped on October 7, 2023. To set the record straight, here’s some information on the treatment and benefits provided to the Thai nationals by Israel and Israelis, as reported in the Israeli and Thai media.
Why Israel had to resume its attacks on Hamas
March 24, 2025 | Justin Amler
The Israeli attacks on Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets on Tuesday should not come as any great surprise. If anything, the only surprise should be that it took this long.
The UN’s double standards on aid
March 20, 2025 | Justin Amler
Despite Hamas’ well-documented atrocities, the UN continues to act as its de facto advocate. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese continued her stream of wild accusations against Israel by saying that cutting off electricity to the terror enclave of Gaza amounts to a “Genocide Alert”.
Our multicultural ideals must be upheld by our leaders
March 18, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein
It is an unfortunate reality that the nation’s antisemitism crisis will be one of the salient issues of the election campaign. It’s an issue that matters not only to Jewish voters but to many other Australians who care about law and order, as well as rehabilitating what had been our multicultural success story. Nobody wishes this wasn’t the case more than Australia’s Jewish community.
Essay: “Gaza shall be forsaken”
February 25, 2025 | Elliott Abrams
Gaza is, as Trump called it, a “hellhole”, and history suggests it will remain so. Not because of anything the Israelis did. They left it in 2005 with an open possibility for a better future.
Israel’s judicial reform battle flares again
February 25, 2025 | Ilan Evyatar
While the attention of most Israelis remains fixed on the Gaza ceasefire and the fate of the hostages, another battle has once again been heating up – the long-running judicial reform controversy which wracked the country throughout 2023 up until October 7.
The Last Word: The Tale of Esther in 2025
February 25, 2025 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
When I read the Book of Esther and its absurd and fantastical tale of Jew-hatred, genocidal madness, despotic dynamism and the unabashed pursuit of power, I feel like I am reading a text for today. A case of the more things change, the more they remain the same.
