Bezalel Smotrich – the controversial politician set to be Israel’s next treasurer (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
The financial trials of Bezalel Smotrich
With thousands of marchers threatening to physically prevent...
Israeli President Herzog in Bahrain in early December: Israel’s gulf state partners want the new Israeli government to emphasise “tolerance” (Image: Amos ben Gershom/GPO)
The Abraham Accords and Israel’s new coalition
The many planned reforms of Israel’s incoming government...
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Deconstruction Zone: 75 years of self-inflicted injury
It is well known that on November 29,...
Netanyahu (left) with Smotrich (second from right), and other representatives of the Religious Zionism party (Image: Twitter)
New Netanyahu-led Coalition taking shape
On December 1, Israeli Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu’s...
The Iranian soccer team’s solidarity with protesters earned them threats against their families (Image: Twitter)
Behind the News – January 2023
ROCKET AND TERROR REPORT One rocket was fired...
Qatar has cracked down on all political expression at the World Cup, as well as displays of flags not belonging to participating teams – with one exception. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations and Palestinian flags are welcome (Image: Twitter)
“Palestine” as World Cup distraction?
Over the first week of December, there were...
An image from the selectively edited footage of the Dec. 2 confrontation near Nablus (Image: Twitter)
Scribblings: The Speed of Lies
There is an old adage often attributed to...
The UN General Assembly has a “tradition” of passing up to 22 one-sided resolutions condemning Israel every year – much more than the rest of the world combined (Image: Shutterstock)
A terrible UN tradition
Australia’s changing stance on Israeli-Palestinian resolutions   There...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a graduation ceremony of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Teheran, Iran (Credit: Salampix/ABACA Press/TNS/Alamy Live News)
We’re playing catch-up on our response to Iran
An edited version of this article appeared in...
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The World Cup and Qatar’s Hypocrisy
“Football unites the world,” declares the website of...
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New Government will confront terror wave 
The terror attacks in the West Bank are...
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Media Microscope: All Right?
By and large, the Australian media reported sensibly...
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