Israel
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The Hannibal Directive and mainstream media’s organised forgetting
Aeschylus (525-456BC) was, as current circumstances in the Middle East and in Ukraine amply demonstrate, entirely accurate when he observed that “In war, truth is the first casualty.” Continue reading »
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Netanyahu as an American stooge
The war about Israel and its right to exist is not really between Israel and the leading terrorist militias whose aim is to destroy Israel. It is now, more clearly than ever, between the US and Iran. Continue reading »
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The ICC war crimes arrest warrant against Netanyahu is not antisemitism
The arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Gallant sparked outrage in Israel and across the Jewish world. But the ICC’s decision is neither antisemitic nor a modern-day blood libel: it is a call for Jews not to sacrifice the universal ideal of justice on the altar of uncritically defending Israel. Continue reading »
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Peace on earth, goodwill toward men (and women) – unless they’re Palestinians, of course
Why do American Christian evangelists support Israel’s genocide in Gaza? Continue reading »
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Israel’s contradictory statecraft
When Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his disdain for international law and his contempt for the leadership of the United Nations, he implicitly recalled an ancient tradition of the origins of Israel. He asserted that Modern Israel was not formed in 1948 by the United Nations, but by the Israeli war against the Arabs, in the Continue reading »
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How the US and Israel destroyed Syria and called it peace
American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, and with Iran on the brink of a nuclear arsenal. Continue reading »
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Netanyahu and Australia
Netanyahu has demonstrated that he has the complete measure of the Labor-Coalition political class, that he only has to snap his fingers and bark an order and they will all do his bidding and follow his instructions with alacrity. Continue reading »
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Syria’s Assad has fallen – just as the Pentagon planned 23 years ago
When westerners see ‘enemy’ governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth. Continue reading »
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A ceasefire in Lebanon – Gaza next?
Third party intervention led by the US and France has achieved a ceasefire in Lebanon. The US now needs to push for a settlement in Gaza where the combatants withdraw, and an external force is charged with maintaining the peace. Continue reading »
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America is a war machine, feeding an Israeli government killing machine
True or False: No one is above the law. Continue reading »
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The Gaza catastrophe: Compel Israeli and Western elites to see reason
Israel is determined to take over North Gaza. This explains its destruction of residential areas in the region. Schools and hospitals have also been targeted. People have been forced to flee their homes. Many who have chosen to stay behind have been killed. Continue reading »
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Anomie: Enabled by Western media, Israel’s lies have become a galloping cancer
Israel’s unholy policy trinity – destroy, kill, lie – has been underway for decades. But since October 2023 it has reached horrific levels. The horror of Israeli destruction, torture and slaughter is apparently taken for granted by Israeli citizens and by supporters in western countries, largely because telling lies as a feature of warfare is Continue reading »
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Remarkable Australian comparative analysis supports BDS
A long line has been drawn between two dots across what looks like a credibility chasm by Barnaby Joyce. But his recent interesting Israel-China comparative analysis implicitly lends robust support to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement directed against Israel. Continue reading »
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Israel shreds the UN as it seeks to ban UNRWA
Israel has knocked yet another nail in the United Nations system. Continue reading »
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Teachers have a right to show solidarity with Palestinians
Gaza has been flattened by Israeli attacks. Ninety per cent of schools have been damaged, or destroyed. Two thirds of schools, 285 of them, have been completely destroyed. All universities have been destroyed. The United Nations has called Israel’s deliberate targeting of Gaza’s education infrastructure, scholasticide. Continue reading »
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Israel: rogue state or righteous ally?
As Israel risks yet further charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in its siege of northern Gaza, its defense of the indefensible is built on a preposterous inversion of morality. That is, the portrayal of Israel as the West’s protector of its very civilization in a sea of evil. Continue reading »
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The ghosts of 1982
The ghosts of 1982 are hovering over Beirut. Continue reading »
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We must purge genocide from the marrow of our bones
The Israeli outlet Haaretz has a new article out titled “Israeli Defence Officials: Gov’t Pushing Aside Hostage Deal, Eyeing Gaza Annexation,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like. Anonymous senior Israeli officials are telling the press that the government has abandoned any notion of securing a hostage deal, and is now working toward “the gradual Continue reading »
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Dutton and Netanyahu’s projection of good and evil
The leader of Australia’s Opposition, Peter Dutton, is aligning himself with a proposition about good and evil, civilisation and tyranny, that can only lead to the perpetuation of violence and the glorification of war, not its diminishment. The position of both men is dishonest, self-deluding and dangerous. Continue reading »
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Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian kids in the head
There’s yet another doctor testimonial about Israeli forces constantly shooting Palestinian children in the head, this one published in The New York Times. Continue reading »
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“Acceptance” of Israel’s extreme brutality and “concern” at the slaughter of Palestinians are irreconcilable
Like most of the US allies, Australia is caught between a rock and a hard place. Continue reading »
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Meta is aggressively censoring criticism of US-Israeli warmongering
I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon, placing strikes on my accounts in the process. Continue reading »
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One year on, Israel’s aggression continues unabated and we urge our politicians to act
One year on, we renew our calls for a ceasefire, hostage deal and an end to Israel’s impunity and aggression. Continue reading »
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On election day, accountability takes centre stage
If the government and Opposition think they will not be held accountable, they should think again. Continue reading »
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Israel’s ideology of genocide must be confronted and stopped
Israel’s violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people. Continue reading »
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The ‘Haredisation’ of Israel and its demographic future: Is there a case for ringing alarm bells?
“Haredim, not Arabs or Iran, are the biggest threat to Israel’, Dan Perry, 2021 Continue reading »
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Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: bombed to death, yet again by Israel
Innocent citizens in Gaza (80 % of whom are refugees), the West Bank, Lebanon and Yemen are being blown to bits in horrific numbers. But it is Palestinian refugees across the region who have been the principal target of this horrific war machine for over 76 years. Continue reading »
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Nasrallah is dead but Bibi hasn’t won
Many people now mourn Nasrallah’s death, in Lebanon and elsewhere, but Hezbollah’s existence is nowhere near in question. Continue reading »
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A five-minute scroll
We start the week with British journalist James Oliver giving his views on Rupert Murdoch, Jim Chalmers brings a back-to-back surplus and a picture of media reporting in the Middle East. Jordan’s Foreign minister speaks about a peace plan supported by 57 Arab and Muslim countries, Australia takes to the streets in our capital cities, Continue reading »
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A five-minute scroll
As Israel bombs Lebanon a five minute scroll on X uncovers the brutality and the voices that are speaking out against it, calling out Australia’s role as a puppet state. Continue reading »
