Why do Gaza hypocrites ignore African horrors?
November 4, 2025 | Arsen Ostrovsky
If the blood of innocents staining Sudanese soil is visible even from space yet invisible to the human rights world below, our problem isn’t blindness. It’s wilful hypocrisy and moral decay.
To rebuild Gaza, remember how Germany rose from the rubble
October 31, 2025 | Bren Carlill
If it is serious about ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the world must treat Hamas’ defeat as the defeat of an existential ideology – just like it did with the Nazis – rather than merely a border dispute to be negotiated away.
From the Shadows of Death to the Light of Life
October 23, 2025 | Justin Amler
To finally see [the hostages] home, safe and secure in the embrace of their loved ones, was like seeing a missing limb restored to the body of a people, making them whole once more. We could finally breathe again. Yet as we celebrate their return, we must also confront the sacrifices – 918 soldiers have fallen since October 7…
“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”.
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.
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.
Good news, but the world must make sure Hamas falls in line
October 10, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein
Allowing Hamas to recover from the war is a recipe only for further violence and devastation, especially for Gaza. The international community must now do all it can to ensure every point of the Trump plan is implemented, including directing its opprobrium where it is warranted – at Hamas.
Israel winning the war, but losing the world
October 8, 2025 | Jamie Hyams
Israel has since been forced to fight two parallel wars — an exceptionally successful military campaign, and a propaganda war, where it has done poorly, with the odds stacked against it.
Wounds will heal, but scars remain as Israel marks two years since Hamas massacre
October 8, 2025 | Justin Amler
The horrors unfolding were far away from us in Australia, yet I, like the rest of the Jewish community, felt their impact so personally, leaving us with a sickening, helpless feeling of dread.
‘The worst two years’: Israeli lives remain entangled with grief and hope
October 8, 2025 | Ran Porat
Much of the world has since moved on from the events of that terrible day, focusing attention instead on the high death toll and widespread destruction in Gaza following Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip. But Israelis remain trapped in a psychological time loop, a kind of “Groundhog Day” of horror, reliving the nightmare…
When Israel woke up on October 7
October 7, 2025 | Bren Carlill
In the years before October 7, Israel did what the world had done for eight decades – it lulled itself into believing that its enemies didn’t mean what they said. Israelis thought that if money went into Gaza, if Gazans could work in Israel, if Gaza’s economy improved, then Hamas, as Gaza’s ruler, wouldn’t want to throw that away… But Hamas attacked anyway, and Israel woke up.
The message is simple: Be joyful!
October 3, 2025 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
So much to be sad about and in the shadow of the agony of the Holocaust, the pall of October 7 has enshrouded us. Yet for all this, we have days of almost riotous celebration like Purim and Simchat Torah. The word for joy, Simcha, is a motif of our regular prayers; a repeated reminder in the book of Deuteronomy by Moses in his final words to his people; and it is indeed the leitmotif of the Sukkot festival.
