To their credit, Biden’s team is focussing on Iran’s non-nuclear activities, but not with the right diplomatic tools (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

The Biden Administration needs to build on US Mideast achievements

February 22, 2021 | Colin Rubenstein

President Joe Biden’s inauguration brought with it a sea change in American politics, and the new Administration is plainly eager to revise the policies of former president Donald Trump. Yet the new Administration would be well advised to try not to throw the baby out with the bathwater when establishing new policies.

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Mess in the Middle East

February 9, 2021 | Oved Lobel, Tzvi Fleischer

Iran is playing a dangerous game of nuclear chicken with the incoming Biden administration, attempting to panic them into immediately lifting sanctions and re-entering the badly flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement without amendment.

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What we can expect from President Biden

January 22, 2021 | Ahron Shapiro

Much has changed since Biden spoke with the autonomy of a senator, particularly the increasing volume of Israel critics among Democrats. Therefore, Biden’s underlying attitudes towards today’s Israel are not altogether clear.

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The Biden Administration’s challenge on Iran

January 19, 2021 | Jamie Hyams

If Biden intends the JCPOA to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, and to moderate its other rogue behaviour, he needs to first insist that Iran return to full compliance with the deal, and then significantly renegotiate or expand it.

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History’s lessons vital to counter extremism

January 18, 2021 | Sharyn Mittelman

THE recent shocking events at the US Capitol have underlined how extremists around the world are promoting racist conspiracy theories, recruiting online and trying to provoke “race wars” — and helped cause the violence we saw in Washington. Meanwhile, Australian security agencies continue to warn about the growth of far-right extremism here.

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Beware Turkey’s normalisation noise

January 7, 2021 | Oved Lobel

Absent concrete Turkish concessions or a substantial change in the regional situation, no Israeli interests can be served by humouring Erdogan’s outreach or indulging Turkey’s progressively more appalling demands and activities.

An Iranian man walks by a billboard of slain Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran, on November 30, 2020. (AFP)

We are at a pivotal moment for addressing the Iranian nuclear threat

December 15, 2020 | Ahron Shapiro

Taken on face value, the November 27 assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, like the targeted killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani last January, would appear to be aimed at breaking the momentum of Iranian aggression in the region…

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How Biden (and Australia) should pressure Iran

December 3, 2020 | Jamie Hyams

The freeing of Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the Australian academic imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up espionage charges, and the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of Iran’s nuclear program, have seen Iran highlighted in our news recently. They have also demonstrated yet again the true nature of Iran’s Islamist regime.

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War between Armenia and Azerbaijan highlights Turkey–Israel tensions

November 26, 2020 | Oved Lobel

No matter how deeply embedded Israel is in Azerbaijan technologically, militarily and economically, Turkey’s influence there will likely always be greater.

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Interview: AIJAC’s Ahron Shapiro with SBS Radio’s Nitza Lowenstein on what a Biden Administration may mean for Israel, Iran and the Peace Process

November 16, 2020 | Ahron Shapiro

Ahron Shapiro: Shalom, I am Ahron Shapiro, a senior policy analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council.   Nitza…

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QAnon is more than a conspiracy

October 19, 2020 | Naomi Levin

Daily Telegraph, October 19 2020   This week, in a move described as a “hammer blow” to the QAnon movement…

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Israel in the Media: AIJAC’s Tzvi Fleischer speaks to J-AIR radio

October 13, 2020

AIJAC’s Dr. Tzvi Fleischer discusses ‘Israel in the Australian media’ with David Schulberg of the community radio program ‘The Israel Connexion’ on J-AIR radio and www.j-air.com.au. The discussion is based in part on reviewing and updating an article by Dr. Fleischer, titled ‘Israel in the Australian Media’, published in the Jewish Political Studies Review some years ago.

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