Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas receives his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine, March 20, 2021. (Screenshot/WAFA)
Behind the News – April 2021
  Rocket and Terror Report The first rocket...
ICC
AIJAC deplores ICC decision to formally investigate “The Situation in Palestine”
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council  (AIJAC) condemns and deplores...
Palestinian employees of the Central Elections Committee in Gaza work to educate and register citizens in preparation for parliamentary and presidential elections (Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Shutterstock)
Palestinians also going to the polls – or are they?
  Israelis are not the only ones headed...
The International Criminal Court appears determined to take on non-member states defending themselves from terrorism (Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas)
ICC recognising Palestine creates setback for Middle East peace hopes
Canberra Times - Feb. 23 2021   At a...
Cyber
Hezbollah cyberattack on Australian company is part of a growing cyber-threat emanating from Iran
On February 9, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a...
Palestinian police patrol outside the Palestinian Legislative Council chambers in Ramallah, a body which was last elected in 2006, and which has effectively been non-functional since 2007
Palestinian elections announced
Update from AIJAC   01/21 #04 On Jan....
B’Tselem & “Apartheid”
Israeli left-wing NGO B’Tselem managed to grab some...
Turkey Greece
Beware Turkey’s normalisation noise
Originally published in The Blogs (Times of Israel) –...
Image: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images.
War between Armenia and Azerbaijan highlights Turkey–Israel tensions
The Strategist (ASPI) – 26 November 2020  ...
A worrying embrace: PA President Mahmoud Abbas with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The Palestinian split with the Arabs
  Shortly after Mahmoud Abbas was elected president...
Clockwise, from top left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem, Sept. 13 2020 (Alex Kolomiensky/Yedioth Ahronoth via AP, Pool); Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok at the Elysee palace in Paris, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus); US President Donald Trump at the White House, Oct. 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon); Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the military council, west of Khartoum, June 29, 2019 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
Sudan normalises relations with Israel
Update from AIJAC 10/20 #04 This Update analyses...
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Israel’s changing security environment – Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror
Former IDF General and National Security Advisor Yaakov...