Guantanamo ruling no victory for Hicks
July 3, 2006 | Ted Lapkin
You could almost hear the popping of champagne corks in those upscale urban precincts where contempt for America is an article of faith. At first glance, the Bush administration seems to have received its judicial comeuppance from the Supreme Court of the United States.
Morally right to kill threats
June 23, 2006 | Bren Carlill
THE Arab-Israeli conflict rolls on, confusing as ever. Earlier this month Australian newspapers reported an impending reconciliation referendum for the Palestinian population. But after a family was killed last week on a Gaza beach, apparently by a Hamas mine (though Israel was blamed), the terrorist organisation cancelled a 15-month unilateral ceasefire and resumed attacks against Israel.
A war we dare not lose
June 10, 2006 | Chris Kenny
IN what we call the War on Terrorism, we should all empathise with the Israelis or, to be conspicuously even-handed, the Israelis and the Palestinians. These are the people at the epicentre of the global struggle of our time.
Hamas is new name for old desire to eliminate Israel
May 3, 2006 | Ted Lapkin
While open elections are a necessary component of democracy, they are not its be-all and end-all. Political liberty also requires freedom of speech and religious persuasion, equal rights for women and the guarantee that minority groups will enjoy the same legal privileges as the majority.
Cancer of the suicide bomber
April 26, 2006 | Bren Carlill
THOSE of us who have lost loved ones to cancer tend to grimace a little more empathetically when we hear of someone falling victim to the disease.
Brewing calamity
April 24, 2006 | Ted Lapkin
“The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence.” Sound familiar? But these are not the genocidal rantings of crisis-present uttered by Iran’s Jew-hater in chief, President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad.
Israel seen as an asset
April 19, 2006 | Colin Rubenstein
IN his opinion piece on this page yesterday, Antony Loewenstein complains that an “Israeli lobby” in the US and Australia relentlessly campaigns to stifle pro-Palestinian voices through “intimidation and slander” (“Don’t let any lobby shut down debate”).
Israelis have voted to take control of their own destiny
March 31, 2006 | Colin Rubenstein
AS EXPECTED, Ehud Olmert, the leader of the Kadima party founded by Ariel Sharon last year, won a mandate to govern Israel in Tuesday’s election, albeit one smaller than predicted.
Israeli politics swings to the centre
March 30, 2006 | Ted Lapkin
A WISE man once counselled me to avoid the business of making predictions — especially if they had anything to do with the future. And as the dust begins to settle from Israel’s parliamentary elections, enough surprises have emerged to validate the wisdom of that advice.
