Author: Jmedia Manager
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Booster shots the next step in the battle against delta
As Australia gets its delayed vaccination programme up to speed, other countries are moving ahead with boosters after discovering efficacy wanes over time. Like many Australians, Miles Page signed up for a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as he could get it. The father-of-two got jabbed with Pfizer back in February. But, while some members of…
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Diplomacy first, Biden tells Israel
President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that diplomacy was his first option, but he would consider other options if his effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal fails. Biden made the comments as the two sat down for their first face-to-face meeting since Bennett was sworn-in as prime minister in June.…
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Moral corruption of Lebanese elite punishes goodwill
I was vaccinating a group of severely disabled people at Sydney’s Macquarie Hospital a few Saturdays ago when a nurse pointed to the television. Thousands of anti-vaxxers were marching through the centre of the city. The image of those people wilfully disregarding the public health orders and putting at risk the vulnerable people I was…
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Biden needs a foreign policy win. A new Iran accord could provide it
US President Joe Biden’s foreign policy credentials have long been questioned by critics on both the left and the right of US politics who contend that his record is littered with bad decisions. On assuming office, Biden inherited a toxic foreign policy legacy from Donald Trump’s administration, but so far he has had mixed success in remedying the damage. Biden’s decision…
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How neo-Nazis are using anti-lockdown protests to recruit new members
Neo-Nazis are targeting anti-lockdown rallies and using covert tactics to indoctrinate frustrated Australians into their hate-filled and violent ideology. At least two leaders of the far-right National Socialist Network were at Melbourne’s anti-lockdown protest on the weekend, trying to recruit new members to their group, The New Daily can reveal. It comes as Anti Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich,…
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Neo-Nazi is ‘on path to’ violent extremism
A guns-obsessed neo-Nazi who talked about carrying out a public mass shooting will be kept behind bars when his weapons sentence expires. Radicalised white supremacist Michael Holt “poses an unacceptable risk of committing a serious terrorism offence if not either detained or supervised”, Justice Natalie Adams said in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday. She…
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Israel reduced intelligence sharing with the US this spring because Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t trust the Biden administration, report says
Israel gave the US less intel about its Iran plans this spring, the NYT reported. It was because then-Prime Minister Netanyahu didn’t trust the Biden administration, the report said. A grudge against Obama and belief that the US was spying on him could have been factors. Israel reduced the amount of intelligence it shared with the…
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Can a third dose of vaccine stave off Israel’s fourth wave?
Is Israel facing a fourth wave? I thought I’d found the most efficient small clinic in Jerusalem, a quarter of an hour’s drive from my home. For months, I’ve been going there for testing, with no fuss or waiting time. At the end of last week, the government authorised the third ‘booster’ dose of Covid…
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NSW Police monitor 1000 on ‘terrorism continuum’ as neo-Nazi risk grows
NSW counter-terrorism police are tracking more than 1000 people of interest as growing concerns about right-wing extremism add to the long-standing threat posed by radical Islamists. The senior police officer overseeing counter-terrorism operations in NSW also warned that the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could lead to a greater risk of violent extremism in Australia. Launching…
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New normal: how Donald Trump transformed the Middle East
In March 2018, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech in Washington DC at the annual conference of pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. While in the city he went out for dinner with his wife, Sara, at Cafe Milano, a Georgetown restaurant well-known as a dining spot for top administration…