Damaged section of Kamal Adwan Hospital (image: World Health Organisation)

The latest IDF raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital debunks absurd UN report

January 9, 2025 | Oved Lobel

This is the calibre of “analysis” one expects nowadays from anti-Israel activists masquerading as UN legal experts and officials. This is a pity, because there are genuine legal and ethical discussions to be had in terms of IHL, IDF conduct and medical units and facilities in Gaza being abused by Hamas. Unfortunately… few are interested in engaging in them.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (left), the late Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and the late commander of the IRGC's Qods Force Qassem Soleimani

The Axis of Resistance is not dead yet

December 19, 2024 | Oved Lobel

This regime has shown itself to be remarkably durable and innovative when it comes to exporting the Islamic Revolution and attacking Israel, even under arguably worse domestic, regional and international circumstances than these. Barring a collapse of the regime or a coherent containment policy by the US and its allies – and despite whatever pragmatic and temporary retrenchment and policy adjustments may be necessary in the short term – it will attempt to regenerate the axis, and likely succeed.   

Iranian women being ushered into a van by "Morality police" (Image: X)

Iranian human rights have significantly worsened since the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests

December 18, 2024

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A Fork in the Road for Lebanon

December 16, 2024

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Price of the Israel-Hamas hostage exchange ‘excruciatingly high’ as hatred of Jews explodes across the Western world

January 21, 2025 | Justin Amler

To see our first three hostages, Emily, Romi and Doron, emerge from that darkness into the light illustrates what this war is truly about. We cannot even begin to imagine the suffering they have endured.

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A welcome pause, but Hamas horror lingers

January 20, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro

Releasing terrorists is inherently risky for Israel. A similar prisoner release with Hamas in 2011 in exchange for Gilad Shalit freed Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 attack. Nevertheless, most Israelis and diaspora Jews viscerally welcome the deal. For so many of us, since October 7, the families of the hostages have become part of our own. The plight of the hostages cast a pall on every holiday, wedding and birthday, and for many, kept us awake at night.

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There is no big winner in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal

January 17, 2025 | Jamie Hyams

Hamas will glory in the horrors of October 7. It will claim it won because it survived. However, it hoped to ignite a wider war with Israel which would be attacked with equal force from all sides and ultimately destroyed.

Few Syrians can even remember their country before the Assad family took control (Image: Shutterstock)

With Assad gone, what’s next?

December 18, 2024 | Ehud Yaari

The “ring of fire” that Iran had planned to establish around Israel has been dismantled with the loss of the single most important link in the chain, Syria.

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The toon boom since October 7

December 18, 2024 | Allon Lee, Aviva Winton

Political cartoons have the power to pack a punch. They can make you outraged but also force you to engage. Since Hamas’ October 7 massacre, political cartoonists have enjoyed a bumper year.

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50 years of history with the AIR

December 18, 2024 | AIJAC staff

Over the past 50 years, the Australia/Israel Review has covered, in its own unique way, numerous dramatic and world-changing events in Australia, Israel and around the world – and broken some major stories with significant effects on Australian political life.

In September, a majority of Gaza respondents, 54%, said they prefer a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders – a huge rise over the 34% 12 months earlier (Image: Shutterstock)

Scribblings: Does war only breed more radicalisation?

Dec 18, 2024

Australian political theorist Patrick Wolfe: Key progenitor of the “settler colonialist” construct (Screenshot)

Biblio File: The ideology that says Israel’s existence is genocide

Dec 18, 2024

The destruction wrought on the Adass Israel Synagogue in the arson terror attack on December 6 (Image: X)

The Last Word: Light from the embers

Dec 18, 2024

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD): Gaining votes by laundering its reputation

Europa Europa: The political rinse cycle

Dec 18, 2024

Foreign Minister Penny Wong continues to admit various UN resolutions are fundamentally flawed, but then vote for them anyway (Image: UN)

UNGA pains

Dec 17, 2024

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Media Microscope: Burnt offerings

Dec 17, 2024

Israel was being accused of starving Gazans even as the aid trucks surged into the enclave (Image: IDF)

ICC’s accusations against Israel are unfounded 

Dec 17, 2024

Empty road in northern Israel’s Upper Galilee region in the wake of the Israel-Hezbollah war (Image: Shutterstock)

Can the Lebanon ceasefire hold?

Dec 17, 2024

In order to find Israel guilty of genocide, Amnesty had to literally redefine genocide (Image: Amnesty International)

Deconstruction Zone: Amnesty International and Balaam’s talking ass

Dec 17, 2024