Ed: 49: August-September/2024

A handout photo from the Iranian Army office shows missiles launching during a military drill in Nasr Abad area, Isfahan province, central Iran, 28 October 2023. (Image: EPA/ Iranian Army Office)

Iran’s “Ring of Fire” around Israel

August 14, 2024 | Oded Yaron

Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar (Image: Shutterstock)

Hamas now a one-man show

August 14, 2024 | Avi Issacharoff

Jewish partisan leader Abba Kovner, centre, with his unit known as “The Avengers” (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

The Last Word: Vengeance, retribution and justice

August 14, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

Former head of Hamas' Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, in 2019 (Image: Abed Rahim Khatib/ Shutterstock)

Deconstruction Zone: If Haniyeh can be killed, so can Hamas

August 14, 2024 | Seth Mandel

Wikipedia claims to be protected by radical transparency – but its model has actually left the website open to repeated manipulation by malign actors looking to re-write history (Image: Shutterstock)

Essay: Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem

August 14, 2024 | Izabella Tabarovsky

Image: Shutterstock

Media Microscope: Hits and misses

August 14, 2024 | Allon Lee

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: “Wolf in sheep’s clothing?” (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Does Iran’s new “reformist” president make any difference?

August 14, 2024 | Ilan Evyatar

Dutton visits Kibbutz Be’eri, where more than 100 people were murdered on October 7

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton makes landmark trip to Israel

August 14, 2024 | Alana Schetzer

Konrad Kalejs, whose deportation from the US to Australia sparked a national debate about Nazi war criminals (Image: AAP)

Biblio File: A mass emigration of criminals

August 14, 2024 | Efraim Zuroff

Following their 2007 seizure of power, Hamas fighters set out to terrorise the population through acts of brutality (Image: Shutterstock)

Inside Hamas-stan

August 14, 2024 | Gianluca Pacchiani

An image that ruffled feathers in Indonesia (Image: Zainul Maarif/ Instagram)

Asia Watch: “Inappropriate” relations

August 14, 2024 | Michael Shannon

Image: Shutterstock

Noted and Quoted – August 2024

August 14, 2024 | AIJAC staff