The long-feared Middle East war is here. This is how Israel might now hit back at Iran
October 3, 2024 | Ran Porat
A regional war is no longer imminent – it is here. The conflict that began in Gaza nearly a year ago has expanded across the Middle East, with Israel fighting countries and groups far from its borders. It also has global implications.
UN resolution is a recipe for continuous conflict
October 3, 2024 | Justin Amler
Predictably, the UN failed the test. The resolution passed with 124 countries supporting it, 43 abstaining and just 14 opposing it. This should come as no surprise – any organisation dominated by non-democracies, as the United Nations is, cannot be expected to make decisions based on liberal, democratic principles.
Hezbollah demonstrations are a threat to Australian society
October 2, 2024 | Justin Amler
Over the past weekend, dozens of protestors in Melbourne and Sydney, waved Hezbollah flags and displayed photographs of assassinated Hezbollah terror chief, Hassan Nasrallah.
Hezbollah, not Israel, is the enemy of the Lebanese people
October 1, 2024 | Oved Lobel
Hezbollah, not Israel, is the enemy of Lebanon and Lebanese sovereignty and is grossly violating multiple elements of international law, not least by its indiscriminate, unprovoked attacks on Israelis that sparked the conflict.
Want to stop an Israel-Hezbollah war? Look to Teheran
September 30, 2024 | Bren Carlill
Restoring calm across the Israel-Lebanon border requires the international community to accept something about which it has long been in denial: Iran is fighting a cold war with the West. Hezbollah-Israel fighting is merely proxy warfare.
A Kafkaesque time for the Jewish people
September 27, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
Antisemitism should matter to all Australians… The failure of religious leaders, politicians and people of good conscience to loudly condemn the desecration of a synagogue space or the violent invective against Jews – from city councils to protest rallies, from schools to shopping centres – is dangerous. For while it may begin with the Jews, it certainly won’t end with them.
Deplorable vote undermines our national interests
September 24, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
The Australian Government’s deplorable decision to abstain, and not oppose, last week’s UN General Assembly resolution demanding Israel completely pull out of the West Bank and Gaza within one year, completely undermines Australia’s long-standing bipartisan policy of supporting a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian two-state peace.
Letter: All Israeli citizens have equal democratic rights
September 23, 2024 | Jamie Hyams
Louise Adler writes much about her education (“Things I’ve learnt you can’t ask about Israel”, September 21). It’s unfortunate that education didn’t extend to the real reasons for the lack of Israeli/Palestinian peace…
The world condemns Israel because it wants to ignore the evil of Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror groups
September 17, 2024 | Justin Amler
Somehow, 11 months later, much of the world seems incapable of telling the difference between a terror group that slaughters children and a sovereign state that tries to save them — a terror group whose own charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish State.
Wikipedia has an antisemitism problem
September 16, 2024 | Aviva Winton
Wikipedia has decided that the allegation of genocide in Gaza is now a fact, once again igniting controversy as content is manipulated to target Israel
Living with a bomb bag: A mother’s perspective on Jewish life after 7 October and the death of six young Israelis
September 9, 2024 | Tammy Reznik
So my daughter’s birthday wasn’t a night of drinks and revelry. Rather she, along with millions of Israelis, spent that weekend anxiously awaiting Iran’s promised “reprisal” attack, and I spent it some 13,000 kilometres away, in a sleepless daze, glued to the “red alert” app which tracks rocket attacks
The UN continues to ignore Israeli victims of terrorism
September 5, 2024 | Justin Amler
The United Nations is unable to see Israelis as victims of terrorism and Palestinians as perpetrators of these attacks. For them, the October 7 attacks never seemed to have occurred – only Israel’s response to them.
