20 November 2024 – Tomorrow evening, two Israeli soldiers who participated directly in the ongoing genocide in Gaza will be lauded as heroes at an event hosted by WIZO Victoria and the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation. These soldiers were part of the IDF’s Paratroopers Reconnaisance Unit, which stands accused by human rights advocates of involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza.
Read MoreMedia Release: Free Palestine Melbourne Deplores Calls to Relocate Rallies
14 October 2024: Free Palestine Melbourne, the largest Palestine solidarity organisation in Melbourne, rejects calls by mayoral aspirants Nick Reece and Arron Wood to restrict the right of protestors to rally against Israel’s escalating war against the people of Palestine and Lebanon.
Read MoreUS WARNS ISRAEL TOTAL VICTORY IS IMPOSSIBLE
Washington backs truce Samer Al-Atrush – Hugh Tomlinson The US is growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand for “total victory” in the war in Gaza, saying Hamas will never be entirely eliminated. US security officials have warned that Israel would never completely destroy the terrorist group and that Israeli forces have […]
Read MoreNEW FRONT OPENS ON GAZAN ARRIVALS ISSUE
Anthony Albanese is in trouble again. Big trouble. And guess what, it’s the same old debilitating and toxic topics for Labor of immigration, visas, social division, national security and weaponisation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It’s the same old haunting presence of former immigration minister Andrew Giles that was meant to be banished during the winter […]
Read MoreHidden in Gaza’s tunnels for nearly a year, how does Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar communicate?
Fleeing from one underground complex to the next, Yahya Sinwar stays in close contact with his commanders using methods that could have come out of a spy manual, with hand written letters and ancient phone lines. Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar communicates with his commanders despite hiding underground for nearly a year. As critical ceasefire negotiations […]
Read MorePeter Dutton’s Gaza call won’t hurt marginal seats
Marginal electorates with large numbers of voters whose parents were both born in Australia and few Muslims easily outnumber battleground seats with large Islamic communities, prompting strategists to declare there will be little electoral downside from Peter Dutton’s hardline stance on Gaza visas. Analysis by The Weekend Australian highlights the political and demographic drivers behind […]
Read MoreGREENS’ DIVISIVE RHETORIC IS FUELLING TERROR RISK, SAYS PM
Anthony Albanese has accused the Greens of fuelling the community divisions that have prompted the government to raise the terrorism threat level from “possible” to “probable”, saying the party’s support for long-running protests outside MPs’ offices is undermining social cohesion. The Prime Minister attacked the hard-left party after the nation’s domestic spy chief warned on […]
Read MoreIRAN TURNS BACK ON CALLS FOR RESTRAINT
ISRAEL ‘ready for war’ Iran has rejected US and Arab efforts to temper its response to the killing in Tehran of Hamas’s top political leader, saying it didn’t care if the response triggered a war. Israel said it was prepared to defend against and respond to any retaliatory strike. “Israel is now in a multi-front […]
Read MoreWong Misrepresented Frankcom Findings
The Israeli embassy has accused the Albanese government of misrepresenting the findings of its hand-picked adviser on the drone strikes that killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, after Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the attack was “intentional”. Former defence chief Mark Binskin found the April 1 attack that killed Ms Frankcom and six of her […]
Read MoreIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official has said, in a widely expected move following the departure from government of centrist former general Benny Gantz
The forum was formed after Gantz joined Netanyahu in a national unity government at the start of the Gaza war in October. It also included Gantz’s political partner Gadi Eisenkot and Aryeh Deri, head of the religious party Shas, as observers. David Mencer, spokesperson at the prime minister’s office, told reporters the war cabinet had […]
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