Video/Audio: Colin Rubenstein on Qatar/Arab States row and use of Al-Jazeera in Australian media
June 8, 2017
Executive Director Dr Colin Rubenstein appeared on The Bolt Report on Sky News Australia, discussing why seven Arab countries to have cut ties with Qatar and why the ABC and SBS are wrong to use content sourced from Al-Jazeera, among other topics.
This post contains two short video excerpts and audio of the entire segment.
Audio: Dr Colin Rubenstein discusses the Six Day War on 2GB
June 5, 2017
Dr Colin Rubenstein joined Michael McLaren on Sydney radio 2GB to look back on the Six Day War, 50 years on.
Let’s not risk making Iran another North Korea
May 29, 2017 | Colin Rubenstein
For the sake of the Australasian region, the North Korean nuclear threat must be contained. For the sake of the world, the Iranian nuclear threat must be neutralised, not only in the short term but the long term as well.
After N Korea, don’t forget Iran
May 10, 2017 | Shmuel Levin
As North Korea once again comes to the fore of the world’s conscious, the lesson should be clear. What matters is not short-term talk, deal, and negotiations, but whether Iran’s long-term ambitions have changed.
For now, this does not seem to be the case. And, if this is allowed to fester, the long-term result may be another North Korea, if not something even worse.
Hamas has not changed its spots
May 5, 2017 | Gareth Narunsky
Hamas leaders have been clear the new policy document neither replaces or amends Hamas’ homicidal and antisemitic founding charter nor accepts Israel’s existence.
It’s time to put the 18C debate to bed
March 6, 2017 | Colin Rubenstein
Now that the Parliamentary Joint Committee Inquiry into Freedom of Speech has handed down its findings, it’s time to put the idea of making changes to Sections 18C or 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) to bed.
Australia has been a good friend to Israel
March 2, 2017 | Mark Leibler
Australia has been a good friend to Israel since before the establishment of the Jewish state.
The friendship has transcended partisan politics, and been enhanced and promoted by successive leaders of both nations.
Against this conducive backdrop, last week’s historic first visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the warm, respectful reception he was given by our own prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has surely taken the relationship to a new level.
An Israeli-Palestinian peace requires the right sort of pressure
February 26, 2017 | Colin Rubenstein & Jamie Hyams
To read Mark Kenny’s analysis of Israel and Palestine (“Blind support for Israel unhelpful”, February 19), one would think the West Bank was a place where arrogant, lawless Israelis tormented and oppressed innocent Palestinians almost for sport, while steadily undermining the only real chance of peace: the two-state resolution. The good news is that reality is somewhat different. The bad news is that peace will still be difficult to achieve, just not for the reasons Kenny gives.
Bibi’s visit and the ties that bind
February 22, 2017 | Colin Rubenstein
AS Australia prepares to welcome the first ever visit by an Israeli Prime Minister, cooperation and dialogue between our two nations have never been stronger.
It’s a record of friendship over a hundred years that few countries can match – marked by shared democratic and egalitarian values, common challenges, bustling trade and a long friendship in which both countries take great pride.
Bob Hawke is wrong: recognising Palestine would just encourage intransigence
February 16, 2017 | Mark Leibler
Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke is correct that, as former Israeli PM Golda Meir said, there can be no peace for Israel without an honourable settlement of the aspirations of the Palestinian people. However, there can also only be peace if both parties negotiate that honourable settlement in good faith, and are prepared to make the painful compromises required.
