Australia’s crucial role in Iran’s next steps
March 10, 2026 | Arsen Ostrovsky, Faraz Maghami
The international community, including Australia, also has a responsibility to support a path that serves the Iranian people, helping ensure their aspirations for freedom, democracy, and human rights are realised, rather than allowing a return to the old status quo.
The Iran war is a strategic gamble with global consequences
March 6, 2026 | Ran Porat
The stated goals of the war include removing Iran as a regional threat, reducing its capacity to produce and fire ballistic missiles, and dismantling its remaining nuclear weapons program. Given the immense military superiority of the US and Israel over Iran, and their demonstrated ability to operate over Iranian territory with impunity, these aims are broadly achievable — though the measurability of these outcomes is expected to remain contested.
A moment of moral clarity
March 5, 2026 | Justin Amler
The eruption of open confrontation this past weekend should not have surprised anyone paying attention. The trajectory leading to the current conflict has been visible for decades. Iran represents an external and existential threat to the State of Israel, but also a severe threat to the wider world – including especially its Arab neighbours.
March 31 will be the key deadline in Bibi’s delicate political balancing act
February 13, 2026 | Ilan Evyatar
To see out the remainder of this Knesset’s term, Binyamin Netanyahu will have to navigate a budget vote, tensions over Haredi military conscription and a volatile regional environment dominated by Iran and the still unresolved Gaza situation
New UN reports confirm Gaza has ample food, was never in a famine
February 9, 2026 | Alana Schetzer
On January 5, the United Nations put out a media release acknowledging that “100 per cent of basic food needs” in Gaza were being met, though this was not reported widely. Indeed, there are still frequent media claims that not enough aid is entering Gaza, despite this UN acknowledgement.
The Gaza gap
March 18, 2026 | Bren Carlill
Instead, what emerges from the data is a political culture in which law is conditional, legitimacy flows from ‘resistance against Israel’ rather than administrative prowess, and political identity is embedded in religious meaning.
The Interview: From Iran to Gaza
March 18, 2026 | AIJAC staff
Yaakov Katz is one Israel’s foremost strategic affairs journalists and author of four books, including, most recently, the bestseller “While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East”… He is currently a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI). He spoke with AIJAC’s Joel Burnie in early March, just as the current escalation with Iran was erupting.
Editorial: A transformational opportunity
March 18, 2026 | Colin Rubenstein
The current operations should not be viewed as the beginning of a new war but as another phase in a long-running one. To pretend that the current conflict somehow begins only when Israel or the United States respond directly to Iran’s overt and covert aggression turns the spirit of the laws of armed conflict on their head.
