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‘Choose the blessing, choose life’: Can we resist despair this Rosh Hashanah?

September 25, 2025 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

I am in despair because polarisation reigns. Black and white are the only colours. Simplistic thinking has pervaded our public spaces — it is also sadly evident in Israel and in many within the Jewish community.

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Palestinian statehood would reward murder

September 22, 2025 | Justin Amler

“Palestine” fails on nearly all counts. It has no defined borders, no single government — only a corrupt Palestinian Authority controlling the Palestinian cities of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and a terrorist Hamas regime in Gaza — and no real capacity for international relations when half its leadership is a proscribed terror group.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Image: Shutterstock)

Path to recognition is as flawed as it’s always been

September 22, 2025 | Allon Lee

If world leaders who intend to recognise a Palestinian state had a better grasp on history, they would internalise that the same rejectionist positions by the PA that doomed Oslo are still in play.

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A Rosh Hashanah reflection

September 21, 2025 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

We reflect on the lives wounded and lost in the past year. It has been another excruciatingly difficult year for the Jewish people confronted by an avalanche of antisemitism and an explosion of anti-Israelism.

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Can hardliner narratives around Gaza be rewritten?

September 17, 2025 | Ran Porat

The only path forward is to move beyond hardliner narratives and construct a new, hopeful story. Rebuilding Gaza requires international support — Israel, the US, and Arab states must help foster a future based on human rights, prosperity, and peace. Instead of martyrdom, Gaza’s narrative must embrace freedom, life, and dignity.

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Qatar does not deserve sympathy over Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders

September 17, 2025 | Jamie Hyams

The condemnation of Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar is yet another example of the appalling double standards to which Israel is routinely subjected. The international community should instead be pressuring Qatar to end its support for Hamas and other pernicious activities.

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Qatar is no impartial observer in this war, the nation is a backer of Hamas

September 12, 2025 | Allon Lee

Israel’s unexpected and bold surgical strike on a building in the Qatari capital of Doha where Hamas’ senior leadership was meeting has attracted the usual international flak.

Palestinians receive humanitarian and food aid from the American Center for Humanitarian Aid (GHF), located in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on August 2025 (Image: Shutterstock)

Claims of ‘genocide’ and intentional starvation are used to wage war against Israel

September 5, 2025 | Justin Amler

Yes, there is hardship in Gaza — sometimes severe. But to blame Israel is to ignore reality. Hamas began this war. Hamas steals the aid. The UN own figures show 90% of aid trucks are looted.

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Letter in the Canberra Times: Comparisons are hurtful, flawed and they cross a line

September 3, 2025 | Jamie Hyams

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism has been adopted by 44 countries… Included in its examples of antisemitism are “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” It should be self-evident that it is particularly hurtful to Jewish people, and completely baseless. Yet this is the entire basis of Mark Kenny’s appalling column…

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Australia taking a decisive step toward protecting its Jewish and Iranian communities

September 1, 2025 | M. Mehr, Ran Porat

Tehran is forever looking for ways to take revenge against Israel, including by trying to recruit spies within the State of Israel to perform acts of violence and espionage. The regime has, moreover, never abandoned attempts to target Israelis and members of the Jewish community and Jewish organisations abroad.

The theft of aid has gravely affected humanitarian efforts (Image: X)

Gaza ‘famine’ claims obscure the truth, and the lies are increasing hatred

August 26, 2025 | Bren Carlill

The determination by a UN monitoring body that parts of Gaza are in famine encapsulates everything that is wrong with how the international community treats the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

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Netanyahu’s Sky News interview: Jamie Hyams on ABC RN

August 22, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again criticised Australian Prime Minister calling Anthony Albanese weak. Mr Netanyahu has accused Mr Albanese and other Western leaders who back a Palestinian state of trying to, quote, appease terror groups like Hamas.

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