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Global community incensed by Israel’s banning of UNRWA should consider its ugly history

November 8, 2024 | Justin Amler

UNRWA is an organisation that is designed not to help people rebuild their lives and thrive, but to hinder them from doing so in the name of politicised goals.

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Letter: Wong got it wrong

November 7, 2024 | Jamie Hyams

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s November 6 opinion piece on the Middle East is very disappointing. The casualty figures come directly from Hamas, so at the very least are dubious, while it’s simply untrue 2 million people – Gaza’s entire population – are facing starvation.

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Understanding the “Ring of Fire”

November 6, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

On October 26, Israel carried out its long-expected reprisal for Iran’s October 1 launch of some 200 ballistic missiles against Israel – the largest single ballistic missile attack by one nation against another in history. Israel’s response involved three waves of Israeli jets reportedly first hitting air defence facilities, and then drone and ballistic missile manufacturing and launch sites.

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The Australian Government refuses to see UNRWA’s terrorism

October 31, 2024 | Justin Amler

What these Foreign Ministers have failed to understand is that UNRWA is not really an international aid agency, but an internationally-funded Palestinian entity (99% of UNRWA staff are Palestinian) complicit in terrorism, which masquerades as an international aid organisation, and an ineffectual one at that. The evidence is damning.

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A world of two realities

October 30, 2024 | Justin Amler

It has become increasingly clear the world views this conflict through two vastly different lenses. In one view is a reality in which Israel is fighting for its survival against relentless threats, by antagonists who openly say they will never agree to any coexistence with the Jewish state. But there is an alternate perception in which Israel is cast as the aggressor.

A handout photo from the Iranian Army office shows missiles launching during a military drill in Nasr Abad area, Isfahan province, central Iran (Image: EPA/ Iranian Army Office)

Ring of Fire must be doused

October 28, 2024 | Allon Lee

For Israel, the immediate task now is to free the 101 hostages who are still held captive, somewhere, in Gaza. There is a strong belief that with Sinwar out of the picture, freeing the hostages will be easier to achieve. But answering the question of whether Sinwar’s death will hasten the war’s conclusion is complicated.

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Many questions, still too few answers to evil

October 23, 2024 | Jamie Hyams

Immediately after the October 7 Hamas atrocities, two questions were predominant – how did it happen, and how could people treat others so horrifically and barbarically? However… the conduct of others raised other, equally baffling questions.

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Hezbollah massacred Syrians; they are glad for Israel’s help

October 22, 2024 | Alana Schetzer

For one group of people in the small mountain town of Madaya, Syria, the elimination of Hezbollah’s senior leadership was especially important… During the Syrian civil war, the town was the site of one of Hezbollah’s cruellest and most vicious attacks.

Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong at the United Nations, New York (image: United Nations/screenshot)

Wong’s Middle East proposals would make things worse

October 9, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

It is appropriate for foreign ministers to float initiatives and ideas to resolve international problems, but they should first be very sure they are improving the situation rather than exacerbating it.

Hamas started the war on October 7, 2023, when it invaded Israel and murdered 1,200 people (Image: Shutterstock)

Hamas’ 7 October attack, one year on: How it’s changed the Middle East

October 7, 2024 | Ran Porat

That day, 7 October, was a seismic event in the history of the Middle East. A year later, what are the aftershocks of this event? What are its implications for the Palestinian issue, and for the balance of power in the region between the pro-Western bloc and the “axis of resistance”?

The author's son at the Nova Festival memorial site in Israel

When our Miracle Day turned Black

October 7, 2024 | Tammy Reznik

Until the ‘Black Sabbath’ of 2023, October 7 was our family’s day of miracles… It was also our son’s 21st birthday. 

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‘Genocide’ the modern-day blood libel to demonise Jews

October 5, 2024 | Mark Leibler

The anniversary of the October 7 massacres compels me to reflect on the toughest 12 months of my long, happy and deeply fulfilling life as a Jewish Australian. A year in which I turned 80, and saw and felt things I never imagined I would.

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