AIJAC letter in response to Marc Purcell’s piece in the Age and Sydney Morning Herald (April 18)
April 22, 2024 | Jamie Hyams
Marc Purcell’s piece claiming Israel is deliberately starving Gaza (Opinion, April 18) contains numerous highly contestable allegations.
Where is everybody when Israel isn’t involved?
April 15, 2024 | Oved Lobel
Where are the protestors and politicians of principle? All of these situations require mass protests and much more attention in the media and in parliament. Instead, there is a general state of Israelomania paralysing and monopolising both government and media attention. There are lamentably few who are just as active against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or the barbarity in Sudan, Myanmar, Haiti and elsewhere, as they are against Israel. Whatever is driving this uniquely powerful passion and animosity, it certainly isn’t primarily humanitarian concern.
Israel-Iran conflict: Its origins explained, and what could happen next
April 22, 2024 | Ran Porat
For now, fears of escalation appear to have been eased. However, lurking in the background is the ongoing progress of the regime in Tehran towards acquiring a nuclear weapon. The 13 April Iranian attack on Israel offered yet further proof that Israel cannot allow Iran to build such weapons. Jerusalem can be expected to act to prevent this outcome, one way or another.
Emboldened Iran is still seeking nuclear capacity
April 18, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
Only by resuming pressure on Iran to stand down its nuclear weapons program, including restoring a credible threat that no measures will be off the table if Tehran does not comply, can the world prevent the world’s most dangerous regime from arming itself with the world’s most dangerous weapons.
Move to recognise Palestine comes at the worst possible time
April 16, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
Bestowing recognition to a Palestinian state before the Palestinians agree to peace with Israel through negotiations would always violate the Oslo Accords and be inherently counterproductive. However, coming in the middle of a war initiated by the Palestinian terror group Hamas, the timing for even considering such a step couldn’t be worse.
The Coalition of the Malevolent
April 22, 2024 | Eliot Cohen
The attack on April 14 was not a mere response to the Israeli strike in Damascus on April 1 that killed two Iranian generals and five other officers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Rather, it represents an inflection point in a semi-covert war that has been going on for years.
Noted and Quoted – May 2024
April 22, 2024 | AIJAC staff
The tragic deaths of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and six World Central Kitchen (WCK) colleagues in an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) drone strike in Gaza on the night of April 1 saw Israel face a barrage of both justified and unjustified criticism.
Ceasefire signalling in the Senate
April 22, 2024 | AIJAC staff
Australia’s political response to the Israel-Hamas war has been dominated recently by the Government’s decision to appoint a “special adviser” to oversee Israel’s independent investigation into the accidental killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers – as well as by Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong’s speech that suggested Australia may consider unilaterally recognising a Palestinian state.
