Netanyahu’s critics ignore Israel’s right to security, peace
January 29, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
Netanyahu’s actual arguments about why Israel needs security control over the West Bank and Gaza make considerable sense. Netanyahu said, “All territory we evacuate, we get terror, terrible terror against us,” citing Gaza, southern Lebanon and parts of the West Bank. Historically, he’s not wrong…
Hamas gladly puts its people in harm’s way
January 24, 2024 | Jamie Hyams
[Hamas] believe[s] that if they can convince Israel’s Jews that they will never be safe in Israel, they will leave. This is why the Hamas October 7 massacres featured such calculated brutality.
Sanctions can no longer be the sole response to Tehran’s blatant provocations
January 21, 2024 | Oved Lobel
It is long past time for Western nations to recognise that appeasement of Iran has failed. The regime is at war with them, whether they wish to be at war with Iran or not. Sanctions cannot be the sole response to decades of terrorism, piracy, hostage-taking, arms proliferation and wars of aggression against the US-led international order.
Israel’s policy in Gaza is the opposite of the “deliberate starvation” lie
January 19, 2024 | Justin Amler
Despite the narrative being spun by many that Israel is preventing aid from entering Gaza, the real truth is the opposite. Israel, rather than targeting civilians, has done everything it can reasonably be expected to, and more, to try to help the Palestinian population while also fighting a deadly war under indescribably difficult conditions
Penny Wong must understand that many Palestinians see all Israelis as ‘settlers’
January 17, 2024 | Ran Porat
Before her visit to Israel this week, Foreign Minister Penny Wong reiterated the government’s view that Israeli “settlements are illegal under international law” … Israel disagrees with this interpretation, arguing the West Bank is “disputed territory” and rejecting their definition as “occupied Palestinian territory”, as Australia’s current government argues.
“In calling for a permanent ceasefire now, it leaves Hamas in place”: Colin Rubenstein on Sky News
January 17, 2024
“In calling for a permanent ceasefire now, it leaves Hamas in place”: AIJAC’s Colin Rubenstein on Sky News, 16 January 2024
Israel & Jewish world “extremely distressed” at events of past 100 days: Colin Rubenstein on SkyNews
January 16, 2024
Sky News’ Kevin Heatley interviews AIJAC’s Dr Colin Rubenstein on the ongoing conflict in the war against Hamas.
100 days on, the trauma has not dissipated
January 15, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
For Israelis, October 7 was cataclysmic and transformational, like September 11, 2001 was for the US, only more so… These events left a collective and still unhealed scar on not just the seven million Jews of Israel, but Jews the world over.
‘From the River to the Sea’ is the Postmodern ‘Hep! Hep!’
January 11, 2024 | Aviva Winton
‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is a new attempt to deny any Jewish claim to national self-determination in the land of Israel, to deny Jewish indigeneity in the land of Israel, despite our unbroken and documented presence on the land for almost 4,000 years, and ascribe indigeneity solely to another people.
The end of judicial reform, and the beginning of healing
January 4, 2024 | Ran Porat
This reform was aimed at reducing what right-wing supporters believed to be excessive powers held by the courts… However, for millions of Israelis, the suggested reform was seen as a direct attack on the fragile democratic structure of the Jewish state.
