Israeli PM Netanyahu with Gilad Shalit following the lop-sided 2011 prisoner swap deal that led to his freedom (Image: Isranet)
Essay: Redeeming the hostages
What price is too high?   Ron Arad...
The anti-Israel schadenfreude which followed the Iranian attack on Israel represents a disturbing side of human nature (Image: X/Twitter)
The Last Word: The iniquity of schadenfreude
On the night of Saturday April 13, the...
Yayha Sinwar: The “Butcher of Khan Yunis” who became the mastermind of October 7 (Image: Shutterstock)
Demented or just diabolical
Inside the mind of Yayha Sinwar   The...
A meeting between Israeli leaders and officials and their US counterparts to discuss Gaza (Image: Flickr)
Rafah: Squaring the circle
The final major combat phase of the Gaza...
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Biblio File: Navigating the diplomatic labyrinth
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs, and the...
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters at the UN (Screenshot)
AIR New Zealand: Grading NZ’s new government 
New Zealand went to the polls on October...
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Media Microscope: Beyond all recognition?
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s April 9 speech...
Yahya Sinwar and his brother Mohammed, who has long been his irreplaceable right-hand man (Image: X/Twitter)
Sinwar and the Hamas leadership abroad
The Egyptians and Qataris have been negotiating with...
Palestinians an injured man after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)
Deconstruction Zone: Citing Hamas’ Gaza casualty claims amounts to journalistic malpractice 
Thousands of civilians have tragically been killed in...
Products in these stores caused outrage in Malaysia (Image: Facebook)
Asia Watch: Hypersensitivities
It doesn’t take much to arouse the political...
Channel 7 reporter Matt Shirvington was the first mainstream media figure to falsely claim the Bondi attacker was Jewish student Ben Cohen
Online antisemitic conspiracy theories apparently led to Channel Seven’s mistakes about Bondi attacker
It goes without saying that the Bondi mass...
The Israeli Air Force: One of several military tools that can be employed in the expected response to the Iranian attack (Image: Flickr)
How should Israel respond to Iran? 
Iran’s aerial attack on Israel in the early...