Author: Jmedia Manager
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The abominable Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The two-state solution for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is a yeti—often talked about, but rarely sighted. And like the Himalayan snowfields, its habitat is shrinking. A familiar combination of domestic Israeli and Palestinian political dynamics, international failures and worsening relations between the two sides created conditions for the outbreak and the continuation of the most recent…
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Sydney’s Supanova Criticised For Apparently Allowing A Stall Selling Nazi & Fascist Propaganda Into Artist Alley
Nazi propaganda was available for sale for a day at the Supanova festival in Sydney before the stall owner was booted. According to an artist and Twitter user who wishes to be anonymous and has set their Twitter profile to private, a stall set up at booth 54 of the artist hall was spotted during…
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Israel raises nuclear concerns about Iran’s ‘most extreme president yet’
Jerusalem: Israel has condemned Iran’s newly-elected president Ebrahim Raisi, saying he was its most extreme president yet and committed to quickly advancing Tehran’s nuclear programme. “Iran’s new president, known as the Butcher of Tehran, is an extremist responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranians. He is committed to the regime’s nuclear ambitions and to its…
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Video: Why Israel is an apartheid state
Talks from Melbourne Green Left/Socialist Alliance online forum: Why Israel is an apartheid state Speakers: * Haidar Eid: Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza. He has written widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict, including articles published at Znet, Electronic Intifada, Palestine Chronicle, and Open Democracy. Haidar is the author of Worlding Postmodernism: Interpretive Possibilities of Critical Theory and Countering The…
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Bachar Houli Donates Premiership Jersey To Fund Supporting Palestine Crisis
Richmond star Bachar Houli has decided to auction off his 2017 match-worn Premiership jumper, with 100% of proceeds going towards aiding orphans in Palestine. The jumper auction will be attached to the ‘Human Appeal Australia’ foundation, Houli shared in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon. “The Palestine crisis has impacted so many people and…
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Hardline judge under US sanctions elected Iran’s next President
Dubai: Hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi has been elected President of Iran in a lacklustre campaign where he was widely regarded as front-runner, despite being personally sanctioned by the US. Raisi, a protege of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will have a key role in discussions with the United States about the prospect of a renewed nuclear…
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Extremist group accuses Onkaparinga Council of ‘crimes against humanity’
A group has claimed responsibility for the disruption of an Onkaparinga Council meeting, where they allegedly accused members of “crimes against humanity”. A shadowy far-right conspiracy group has claimed responsibility for a brief takeover and sit-in of an Onkaparinga Council meeting where it is alleged its members abused staff and councillors. Police have told the…
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Ultraconservative cleric Raisi wins Iran presidential vote
A supporter of Ebrahim Raisi walks past a poster of the president-elect at one of his campaign offices in Tehran on Saturday Ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi was declared the winner Saturday of Iran’s presidential election, a widely anticipated result after many political heavyweights were barred from running. Raisi won just shy of 62 percent of…
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Isi Leibler was the original influencer
Isi Leibler was one of the most influential of all Australians in international politics, an unexpected role because he was never a parliamentarian, and never an ambassador nor top civil servant. He was also exceptional because his political base sprang from one of the nation’s smallest ethnic groups, the Jews. Independent and provocative, he was…
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Jonathan Dimbleby on ‘Operation Barbarossa’ and how Hitler lost the war
‘Operation Barbarossa’, Hitler’s invasion of Russia in 1941, was a ‘war of extermination’. Many westerners are brought up to believe that it was the British and the Americans who defeated Nazi Germany. Although this is understandable given the enormous cost to service men and women, their families and their homeland, it is not the whole…