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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
