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“Too much disinformation to rebut in one letter”

October 17, 2025 | Jamie Hyams

As usual when Jack Waterford indulges his obsession with demonising Israel, there’s far too much disinformation in his October 11 column to rebut in one letter. Israel’s war was against Hamas, not civilians. Hamas are proscribed terrorists, not a “political group”.

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A peace deal of hopes and fears

October 11, 2025 | Justin Amler

For the first time, the full weight of the Oval Office is behind a deal. And also for the first time, many Muslim and Arab nations, including countries with long-standing ties to Hamas such as Qatar and Turkey, have welcomed and supported the agreement. That’s no small thing.

President Trump with his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (Image: Whitehouse.gov)

Will Trump’s plan give peace a chance in Gaza?

October 10, 2025 | Joel Burnie

Beyond most of their wartime objectives being realised, the key reason fighting is unlikely to resume is because of the immense pressure being brought on Israel, and the isolation suddenly experienced by Hamas.

Israeli PM Netanyahu in the Knesset, flanked by President Herzog (centre) and speaker Amir Ohana (GPO/ Flickr)

In the wake of the Gaza ceasefire, Israel’s election countdown begins

October 30, 2025 | Ilan Evyatar

The next Israeli elections are not officially scheduled until late October 2026, yet the campaign season has plainly begun. The Knesset’s winter session opened on Oct. 20 with an acrimonious debate, reflecting a political system already in election mode.

Palestinians crowd at a local street market in Rafah (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

Palestinians, “armed action” and the impact of the Gaza war

October 30, 2025 | Bren Carlill

The Hamas-Israel war appears to be convincing Palestinians that negotiations are more effective at achieving Palestinian objectives than violence.

Children in a camp for the displaced from the war in the city of Taiz, Yemen (Image: akramalrasny/ Shutterstock)

The United Nations stopped delivering aid to millions of Yemenis nine months ago – no one seems to care

October 29, 2025

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With all the discussion of disarming Hamas, how are the plans to disarm Hezbollah going?

October 24, 2025

Many believe that a new form of antisemitism has emerged: anti-Zionism. Rather than focus on the individual Jew or Judaism or the Jewish “race”, the target is the Jewish state, and "Zionists", those who support its existence (Image: Shutterstock)

Essay: Antisemitism – What everyone needs to know

September 19, 2025 | David Harris

Above all, antisemitism is an enduring and infinitely adaptable conspiracy theory. It ascribes to Jews, as a group, malevolent characteristics and aims. Even if historical circumstances should change over time, those essential characteristics and aims do not.

Houthi rebel fighters in Sana’a, Yemen (Image: Alamy Live News)

Remnant of resistance

September 19, 2025 | Oved Lobel

For Israel, Ansar Allah remains more of an irritant than a genuine threat.

President Harry Truman with Secretary of State George Marshall in 1948 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Biblio File: Was Israel an “Imperialist” creation?

September 19, 2025 | Paul Monk

This book is a superb piece of historical research. It ought to have been required reading for anyone reacting to the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023 or claiming to put the subsequent war in perspective.

Ted Deutch (Image: American Jewish Committee)

“Speaking with clarity”

Sep 19, 2025

Street protest in Melbourne (Image: Shutterstock)

Keeping Faith: Swept away – Life inside an avalanche

Sep 19, 2025

The post-October 7 world (screenshot)

Cinefile: Terror after terror

Sep 19, 2025

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Media Matters: Starved for Balance – The ABC’s coverage of Gaza’s famine claims

Sep 19, 2025

A sign of the times (CNN screenshot)

Washington Heights: Relationship troubles – The anti-Israel evolution of the US Democratic party

Sep 19, 2025

UNIFIL has been present in southern Lebanon for 47 years and effectively facilitated, rather than constrained, Hezbollah’s vast illegal arms build-up in the area (Image: Shutterstock/ Sebastian Castelier)

UNIFIL’s end

Sep 19, 2025

Anti-Israel sentiments dominate the streets of Jakarta (Image: Shutterstock)

Asia Watch: Downward trend

Sep 19, 2025

NZ Greens MP Chloe Swarbrick (Image: Reddit)

AIR New Zealand: “Not Yet and Not Until” – debating Palestinian statehood 

Sep 19, 2025

Antoine al Kazzi, editor of Australia’s best-known Arabic language newspaper, El Telegraph

Australia’s extremists in full flight

Sep 19, 2025