An IDF soldier in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip (Image: Shutterstock)

The world continues to tell Israel what to do – is it fair?

August 17, 2025 | Justin Amler

The world has never been shy in telling Israel what to do — in ways it would never dare tell other countries. It demands impossible standards no nation has ever met.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) recites a prayer during a meeting with members of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in the West Bank city of Ramallah (Image: WFA/ X)

Praise from Hamas co-founder is bad. Palestinian Authority is also a flaw of recognition

August 14, 2025 | Oved Lobel

While there are countless reasons to criticise the government’s decision to recognise Palestine, perhaps nothing better encapsulates its seriously flawed and futile approach than saying its position is predicated on PA commitments.

Security forces evacuating a pregnant settler in Neveh Dekalim, Gaza Strip, August 2005 (Image: Isranet)

Twenty years after Disengagement

August 14, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Disengagement was a failure, but that doesn’t mean it was the wrong thing to do. Twenty years after Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, the move still creates disagreement.

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Dangerous reward for terror, antisemitism

August 12, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein

The UK and Canada are the latest Western governments to join the profoundly counterproductive trend to unilaterally recognise, or threaten to recognise, a Palestinian state are regrettably now joined by Australia.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: Chad J. McNeeley/ Wikimedia Commons)

Don’t reward Hamas: Why it would be wrong to recognise Palestine now

August 11, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein

The UK and Canada are the latest Western governments to join the profoundly counterproductive trend to unilaterally recognise, or threaten to recognise, a Palestinian state in response to the tragic situation in Gaza. Regrettably, Australia seems on the cusp of doing so too.

The Hamas military wing released another video of Israeli hostage Evyatar David (Source: Reddit)

Appeasement has a price – and the hostages are paying it

August 11, 2025 | Justin Amler

Hamas and its terrorist affiliates released these latest videos not just to document their horror, but to taunt grieving families and torture a nation still in trauma – a nation locked in a war that seems to stretch on endlessly. It’s a sickening calculation: the greater Israel’s pain, the higher their joy.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (Image: No 10 Downing Street/ Flickr)

Gullible West’s Palestinian statehood threats are peak idiocy

August 5, 2025 | Jamie Hyams

It appears many Western leaders have now achieved peak idiocy regarding Israel – as they have shown by actions that will almost inevitably result in the exact opposite outcome to what they say they want, exhibiting amazing gullibility, and abandoning logic.

Aid provided by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (Screenshot)

How the West was lost

August 4, 2025 | Justin Amler

This past week has demonstrated how the Western world, which often speaks about defending freedom, liberty and democracy, can be so easily duped by terrorists in pick-up trucks. We saw a statement by 28 countries, including Australia, that was so detached from reality that it blamed Israel for the terrible consequences of the current war  in Gaza, rather than Hamas who started the war in the first place…

Protesters gather in central Tel Aviv calling on the Israeli government to sign an agreement for the release of hostages held in Gaza (Image: Shutterstock/ Vladi Konov)

Among Israelis, the view of the situation in Gaza is complex — rooted in a trust deficit

August 1, 2025 | Ran Porat

The international media has a responsibility to show what is happening in this war-ravaged area and to present the plight of the Palestinian people. However, the same media is often remiss when it comes to reporting on the situation in Israel. It fails to adequately convey the Israeli psyche: how Israelis perceive the war, its objectives and the people on the other side.

Hamas embeds itself in every aspect of Palestinian life (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

Hamas and its enablers

August 1, 2025 | Justin Amler

To Hamas, every civilian death is a strategic victory. Why? Because it knows – and tragically, it is right – that images of Gazan casualties will be weaponized to turn public opinion against Israel and smear its name on the world stage. And it’s working.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong (Screenshot)

Why Labor risks making the wrong call on Palestine recognition

July 31, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Premature recognition is short-sighted and self-defeating, regardless of the motivations for doing it. The difficult but correct alternative is continuing to insist that the foundations for peace are properly established… Politically expedient shortcuts will make the situation worse.

Aid trucks heading into Gaza (Image: Shutterstock)

Letter in The Age: Blame not so simple

July 29, 2025 | Jamie Hyams

Regarding Sean Kelly, the Geneva Conventions allow the blocking of aid if the enemy is stealing or using it. Kelly cites a New York Times story denying Hamas is doing so, but a Washington Post report set out in detail how Hamas is in financial crisis because Israel has stopped it taxing aid, or stealing and selling it.

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