Trump’s Iran nuclear decision offers hope for a better deal
May 13, 2018 | Colin Rubenstein
Now the hope must be that Trump’s announcement signals the beginning of a new era of negotiations and sustained diplomatic efforts to put into place new and better arrangements to thwart Iran’s dangerous nuclear ambitions and regional aggression.
Bibi’s revelations highlighted Iran deal’s failings
May 10, 2018 | Tzvi Fleischer
ON April 30, Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu revealed one of Israel’s greatest intelligence coups – that it had obtained an entire archive of around 100,000 secret files on Iran’s nuclear program.
According to media accounts, in January Israeli spies broke into a secret Tehran warehouse, stole the documents and brought them back to Israel the same night.
Macron’s visit a timely opportunity to act on Iran’s nuclear program
May 2, 2018 | Naomi Levin
Fresh from his state visit to the White House, French President Emmanuel Macron is in Australia this week.
While the official announcement from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says Macron is coming to talk about trade and defence industry partnerships, security – particularly the future of the Iran nuclear deal – will also feature on the agenda during the three-day stay.
Myths and facts about Gaza’s ‘march of return’
April 17, 2018 | Tzvi Fleischer
The demonstrations along the Israel–Gaza border dubbed the ‘Great March of Return’ are a calculated and desperate propaganda move, largely organised and funded by Hamas alongside other terrorist organisations.
In Her Criticism of Daniel Pipes, Patton Continues to Miss the Point
April 13, 2018 | Colin Rubenstein
I am pleased that, in her latest article replying to me, Chloe Patton has been prepared to engage more substantively with what Daniel Pipes had to say while visiting Australia…
Hamas always happy to expend Gaza lives as part of its deadly theatre
April 5, 2018 | Colin Rubenstein
Last weekend’s Gaza violence in which 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces was not what it might have seemed. It certainly was not the peaceful protest, or the massacre of innocent civilians, that Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and their supporters claim.
Australia should fund Palestinian welfare, but not “pay to slay”
April 3, 2018 | Sharyn Mittelman
A key obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians is the institutionalised incitement to anti-Israel violence by the Palestinian Authority (PA)… Perhaps the worst aspect of this incitement, however, is the PA’s “martyr” compensation scheme, which incentivises terrorism by providing lifetime monthly stipends to convicted terrorists and to the families of slain terrorists.
As relations with North Korea thaw, Iran poses a bigger threat
March 15, 2018 | Colin Rubenstein
Comments made by US President Donald Trump about the sacking of his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson highlighted the fact that while the threat to world peace posed by North Korea has dominated the headlines in recent months, Trump is determinedly focused at least as much on another rogue state, which probably poses an even greater threat in the longer term – Iran.
It’s time Australia recognised Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organisation
March 1, 2018 | Colin Rubenstein
THERE is a group that was described by a senior US security official 15 years ago as the “A-Team of terrorists” and has only gone from strength to strength in the years since then. This group perpetrates violent acts against civilians, calls for mass murder and, by its own admission, doesn’t differentiate between its political and military arms.
Yet Australians are effectively free to fly this group’s flag, fill its coffers and offer it material support, even as its operatives undertake terrorist activities in our region.
History’s real lessons on Iran
February 22, 2018 | Tzvi Fleischer
Several recent articles have called on President Donald Trump to change the Iran policy of the United States based on ‘past lessons’ and Persian history. If we follow these writers to a logical conclusion, then they appear to accept that Iran must be appeased and accommodated, not confronted or contained, in its drive for regional hegemony, support for terrorism and pursuit of non-conventional weapons.
