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Protests roiling the Palestinian West Bank
The Palestinian West Bank is roiling with protest, but this time the target is not the Israeli government. Popular activist Nizar Banat died after he was severely beaten by Palestinian police in late June. But Palestinians are still on the streets — and they’re invoking the cause of a new Arab spring. Irris Makler reports from Ramallah…
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Netanyahu Asked To Return Gifts To Israel
Israel’s embattled former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked on Monday by the government that ousted him to return gifts he received from foreign leaders during his last decade-long tenure. Unidentified sources told the Associated Press that the Prime Minister’s Office has requested that Netanyahu return any gifts he received when he occupied this office. An Israeli…
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Record number of new COVID cases in Israel
Israel has announced nearly 11,000 new coronavirus cases in a day, a new record since the pandemic broke out – despite the country’s world-leading vaccination campaign. There were 10,947 new cases registered in the past day, the Health Ministry said. The latest figure is higher than the previous record, dating back to mid-January, when officials…
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Bolt: ‘This new identity politics is divisive and dangerous’
Maher Mughrabi, The Age’s Features Editor, has been the “latest example” of Australia’s “divisive” new identity politics, according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “He (Mughrabi) this year signed a petition demanding journalists not be neutral in covering the latest conflict between Israel and Palestinian terrorist group Hamas,” Mr Bolt said. “But it gets worse,…
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Court backs academics’ free speech in swastika dismissal case
A controversial University of Sydney lecturer who was sacked after superimposing a swastika on an Israeli flag has won a key victory in his battle to be reinstated, with the federal court declaring academics at the institution are entitled to convey even offensive views in their area of expertise. The decision reverses a previous court…
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Naftali Bennett holds his tongue over Joe Biden’s deal with Iran
Israel’s new Prime Minister has told President Joe Biden he will not publicly oppose the US rejoining a deal with Iran over its nuclear ambitions, reversing a long policy that has soured relations between the allies. Naftali Bennett, 49, in his first White House meeting since taking office in June, reportedly told Mr Biden that…
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Israeli PM downplays talks with Abbas
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has played down any notion of a move towards renewed peace negotiations with the Palestinians after the highest-level Israeli-Palestinian meeting in years. Hours after Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met, the main Israeli media outlets quoted “a source close to the prime minister” as saying: “There…
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George Weigel: Jewish museum offers profound lessons in history
In the three decades since the Revolution of 1989, Poland’s many cultural achievements include mastering the craft of creating the 21st-century historical museum. Examples include the Warsaw Uprising Museum in the national capital; Kraków Under Nazi Occupation 1939-1945, built on the site of Oskar Schindler’s factory; and The Family Home of John Paul II —…
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How China drove a wedge between America and Israel
Two weeks ago, CIA director William Burns – who has rather a lot on his plate just now – had a quiet word in the Israeli prime minister’s ear about Chinese investment in the Jewish state. It was the latest and most urgent of America’s attempts to prevent Israel from slipping further towards the Beijing…
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Biden on same page as Trump: Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has accused US President Joe Biden’s administration of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in talks to revive a nuclear accord. The multilateral deal that offers Iran relief from sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear program was torpedoed by Mr Trump’s decision to withdraw the…