The long and winding war
June 5, 2007 | Bren Carlill
FORTY years ago, three Arab states provoked war with Israel, determined, in the words of the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, to throw the Jews into the sea.
The 40-year war
June 5, 2007 | Bren Carlill
TODAY marks 40 years since the start of the Six Day War. We are told constantly that Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank is the reason there is no Arab-Israeli peace.
Cute mouse with killer message
May 15, 2007 | Bren Carlill
WORLDWIDE headlines were generated last week when a Hamas TV station featured a giant mouse – similar to Disney’s Mickey – encouraging children to martyr themselves.
Unless there’s change, Israel will act
May 13, 2007 | Colin Rubenstein
The recent Winograd Committee preliminary report, assessing Israel’s performance in last year’s Hezbollah-Israel conflict, was highly critical of the relevant political and military leaders.
Israel was right to hit back at Hezbollah provocation
May 9, 2007 | Colin Rubenstein
A lot of myths surround the release of the Winograd commission report into the Olmert Government’s conduct of last year’s war on Islamists.
Peace remote as Arab League Summit ‘postures’
April 10, 2007 | Colin Rubenstein
Arab League summits have become rather marginal affairs in recent years, but hopes were high for the March 28-29 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for two reasons.
Hold firm over Hamas
March 16, 2007 | Bren Carlill
THE Palestinian factions have finally agreed to implement the Mecca Accord, which they signed in February. A unity government will be formed within days… Time to stop the boycott, right? Wrong.
Australian Jewry’s Israel question
March 9, 2007 | Colin Rubenstein
THE publicity surrounding the issuing of the “Independent Australian Jewish Voices” statement appears out of all proportion to the petition’s significance.
Moderates must not become apologists for radical Islam
February 26, 2007 | Colin Rubenstein
THE Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) cancelled our planned participation in the program of Israeli professor Raphael Israeli after his controversial remarks about Muslim immigration and communities. Characterising Muslim communities as a threat or danger per se is a sentiment we reject and with which we do not wish to be associated.
Terrorism Teheran Style
January 21, 2007 | Ted Lapkin
YOU know it’s not business as usual when prosecutors from one country file a criminal indictment against another country’s head of state. But that’s precisely what happened late last year when Argentine authorities laid terrorism charges against former Iranian president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani.
The barriers to peace in Middle East
December 19, 2006 | Colin Rubenstein
The resurgence of internal Palestinian conflict in recent days sheds some light on the assertion advanced again by the report of the Iraq Study Group in Washington. This claim is that the Israeli/Palestinian question is the “core” of the problems radiating out of the Middle East. Everyone of goodwill wants Israeli-Palestinian peace as quickly as possible. However, the belief that it is the key to the region’s problems is not only incorrect, it is counter productive.
Too high a price for peace
December 12, 2006 | Colin Rubenstein
The bipartisan Iraq Survey Group report to US President George Bush makes some reasonable if unsurprising recommendations about military strategy in Iraq, but also two recommendations about wider Middle Eastern policy that are fundamentally flawed.
