Fears of Hezbollah conflict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismantled the war cabinet set up to bring a unified approach to the fight against Hamas, as a top US envoy travelled to the region to push diplomatic efforts aimed at heading off a wider conflict with Hezbollah on the Lebanese border. During a late […]
Read MoreWe’re all owed equal protection under the law, but we’ve excluded Jews
The cornerstones of a free society are democracy and the rule of law. The corollaries are peace, order and good government as enshrined in section 51 of the Australian Constitution, and equality before the law. As the High Court has stated, equal justice “requires, so far as the law permits, that like cases be treated […]
Read MoreIf Israel regards its conflict with Hamas as war, it is liable to abide by the international rules of war
The Israeli Defence Force, its spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said this week, is a “professional military committed to international law”. The killing of seven humanitarian workers by the IDF this week, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, was a “tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza strip. This happens […]
Read MoreWest must realise it’s Hamas who is to blame for the deaths
Hamas is winning the propaganda war. The death of seven international aid workers in Gaza, including an Australian citizen, is a pivotal moment in global politics and the politics of the Middle East. We must keep front and centre the dreadful human tragedy involved. These people were not only innocent but heroic, putting themselves in […]
Read MoreABC ‘threw me under the bus’, says Lattouf
21 January 2024, The Age, by Megan Gorrey and Calum Jaspan: Former ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf claims she was targeted by an ‘‘orchestrated attack’’ aimed at ruining her reputation and muffling other journalists after she was sacked over a social media post about the war in Gaza.
Read MoreABC federal politics reporter Nour Haydar resigns from Canberra role over the media organisation’s Israel-Gaza coverage
A high-profile political journalist in ABC’s Parliament House bureau has resigned over the national broadcaster’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Nour Haydar, who joined the ABC as a cadet in 2017 before rising to the ranks as a political reporter in Canberra in 2019, has featured prominently across the broadcaster’s online, radio and TV channels […]
Read MoreABC federal politics reporter Nour Haydar resigns from Canberra role over the media organisation’s Israel-Gaza coverage
A high-profile political journalist in ABC’s Parliament House bureau has resigned over the national broadcaster’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Nour Haydar, who joined the ABC as a cadet in 2017 before rising to the ranks as a political reporter in Canberra in 2019, has featured prominently across the broadcaster’s online, radio and TV channels […]
Read MoreHundreds more killed in Gaza as Israel pursues Hamas
Israel is battling Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip’s biggest cities and says it has attacked dozens of targets, leaving 350 Palestinians dead and the rest struggling to survive in rapidly shrinking areas of refuge. Gazans crammed into Rafah on the southern border with Egypt, heeding Israeli leaflets and messages saying that they would be […]
Read MoreIsraeli strike on journalists in Lebanon warrants ‘war crime’ probe: watchdogs
The Israeli strike that killed one journalist and injured six others in Lebanon merits a “war crime” investigation, rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch told AFP on Thursday. Issam Abdallah, 37, was killed instantly in the strike on October 13 in the south of the country near the Israeli border. The others present […]
Read MoreThere’s a String from our Hear to our Homeland
”. Fear drives Jewish students to go to school in plain clothes as Palestinians face being defined by an extreme minority gone viral. It is a conflict at once distant and excruciatingly near. For the Jewish-Australian and Palestinian-Australian communities, the horrors of the past week have scarred deeply. Families mourn the loss of loved ones […]
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