Global community incensed by Israel’s banning of UNRWA should consider its ugly history
November 8, 2024 | Justin Amler
UNRWA is an organisation that is designed not to help people rebuild their lives and thrive, but to hinder them from doing so in the name of politicised goals.
Letter: Wong got it wrong
November 7, 2024 | Jamie Hyams
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s November 6 opinion piece on the Middle East is very disappointing. The casualty figures come directly from Hamas, so at the very least are dubious, while it’s simply untrue 2 million people – Gaza’s entire population – are facing starvation.
Understanding the “Ring of Fire”
November 6, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
On October 26, Israel carried out its long-expected reprisal for Iran’s October 1 launch of some 200 ballistic missiles against Israel – the largest single ballistic missile attack by one nation against another in history. Israel’s response involved three waves of Israeli jets reportedly first hitting air defence facilities, and then drone and ballistic missile manufacturing and launch sites.
The Australian Government refuses to see UNRWA’s terrorism
October 31, 2024 | Justin Amler
What these Foreign Ministers have failed to understand is that UNRWA is not really an international aid agency, but an internationally-funded Palestinian entity (99% of UNRWA staff are Palestinian) complicit in terrorism, which masquerades as an international aid organisation, and an ineffectual one at that. The evidence is damning.
A world of two realities
October 30, 2024 | Justin Amler
It has become increasingly clear the world views this conflict through two vastly different lenses. In one view is a reality in which Israel is fighting for its survival against relentless threats, by antagonists who openly say they will never agree to any coexistence with the Jewish state. But there is an alternate perception in which Israel is cast as the aggressor.
Ring of Fire must be doused
October 28, 2024 | Allon Lee
For Israel, the immediate task now is to free the 101 hostages who are still held captive, somewhere, in Gaza. There is a strong belief that with Sinwar out of the picture, freeing the hostages will be easier to achieve. But answering the question of whether Sinwar’s death will hasten the war’s conclusion is complicated.
Many questions, still too few answers to evil
October 23, 2024 | Jamie Hyams
Immediately after the October 7 Hamas atrocities, two questions were predominant – how did it happen, and how could people treat others so horrifically and barbarically? However… the conduct of others raised other, equally baffling questions.
Hezbollah massacred Syrians; they are glad for Israel’s help
October 22, 2024 | Alana Schetzer
For one group of people in the small mountain town of Madaya, Syria, the elimination of Hezbollah’s senior leadership was especially important… During the Syrian civil war, the town was the site of one of Hezbollah’s cruellest and most vicious attacks.
Wong’s Middle East proposals would make things worse
October 9, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
It is appropriate for foreign ministers to float initiatives and ideas to resolve international problems, but they should first be very sure they are improving the situation rather than exacerbating it.
Hamas’ 7 October attack, one year on: How it’s changed the Middle East
October 7, 2024 | Ran Porat
That day, 7 October, was a seismic event in the history of the Middle East. A year later, what are the aftershocks of this event? What are its implications for the Palestinian issue, and for the balance of power in the region between the pro-Western bloc and the “axis of resistance”?
