Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets Russian President Vladimir Putin at a conference in Astana, Kazakhstan (Image: Twitter)
Behind the News – November 2022
Rocket and Terror report No rockets were fired...
Itamar Ben Gvir: Part of a wave of populists, provocateurs and anti-establishment political figures that have tapped into feelings of fear and vulnerability in Western democracies (Image: Twitter)
Understanding the rise of Itamar Ben Gvir
In the March 2020 Israeli election, Itamar Ben...
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Media Microscope: In Reverse
The fumbling manner in which the Albanese Government...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Image: UN Photo)
Deconstruction Zone: Why there is no Palestinian state 
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech to the...
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The parties and their prospects
Positions on the key political and security issues...
PM Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party looks set to pick up seats, but only from parties already part of his bloc – not from the pro-Netanyahu bloc (Image: IGPO/Flickr); while Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu, despite trying to refocus this campaign on economics and the outgoing Government’s foreign policy performance, has again found his legal situation the main focus of this election (Image: Eddie Gerald/ Alamy Stock Photo)
To Bibi or Not to Bibi
It appears as static as the Dead Sea....
Posters for leading party candidates Yair Lapid and Binyamin Netanyahu on display as Israel nears its national election (Images: Oded Balilty/AAP)
Editorial: Canberra missteps as Israel goes to the polls
The announcement by the Australian Government that it...
Israel's Knesset in Jerusalem (Image: Shutterstock)
Government’s reversal on Jerusalem a bizarre own-goal
Herald Sun - 19 October 2022   The...
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AIJAC expresses deep disappointment over government’s reversal on Jerusalem
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has...
The complex Israel-Lebanon maritime boundary dispute appears to have been settled after many years of negotiations, with Israel accepting the green line in the above diagram, except within five kilometres of the coast (This map was originally published on the MEES website).
Israel-Lebanon maritime border agreement
10/22 #02   This Update is dedicated to...
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IDF: No Israeli involvement in Palestinian boy’s death
On October 7, the IDF announced the outcome...
A Russian-operated Iranian Mohajer-6 drone, recently downed and captured intact by Ukraine
Western Silence on Iran’s Material Support for Russia is Deafening
On July 14, three days after US National...
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