Author: Jmedia Manager

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in Other Print, Print, The Canberra Times

Israel has launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip for a second time since a shaky ceasefire ended last month’s 11-day war. The strikes on Thursday came after activists mobilised by Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers launched incendiary balloons into Israel for a third straight day. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the strikes, which…

Iran votes, nuclear deal hangs in balance

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in Print, The Canberra Times

Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers hangs in the balance as the country prepares to vote for a new president, and diplomats press on with efforts to get the US and Tehran to re-enter the accord. The deal represents the signature accomplishment of the relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani’s eight years in office; suspending…

Iran’s role in the latest Gaza conflict

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in Online, The Strategist

References to Iran have been glaringly absent from commentary on the clash between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza, even though two primary terrorist organisations, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have effusively praised Tehran and its regional proxies for providing their military capabilities and finance. Moreover, the way the conflict was framed both by the Gaza…

The great betrayal of Ethel Rosenberg

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in Print, Spectator

Ethel Rosenberg was an exceptional woman. Born with a painful curvature of the spine to a poor family of Jewish immigrants and a mother who never loved her, she was determined to make her life matter. A talented singer, she won a place at New York’s prestigious Schola Cantorum and performed at Carnegie Hall. Having…

How Israel’s missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs

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in Online, Other Communities

Renewed fighting has erupted again between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, endangering a ceasefire instituted after an 11-day war in May. The conflict in Gaza is an early test of Israel’s new coalition government. Recently, parties across the political spectrum united to remove Israel’s scandal-plagued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power, ending a two-year political crisis –…

‘Hate speech’: More right-wing groups could be listed as terrorist organisations

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

More right-wing extremist groups could be declared terrorist organisations after Labor and Liberal MPs unanimously backed the listing of neo-Nazi group Sonnenkrieg Division. Liberal senator James Paterson, chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, called on the government to investigate more “like-minded organisations with a mind to listing them as terrorist organisations…

Israel says hit by more ‘arson balloons’ after striking Gaza

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in Herald Sun, Print, The Australian

Palestinian militants again launched incendiary balloons from Gaza Wednesday, hours after Israeli strikes in response to earlier cross-border fire attacks, the first flare-up since hundreds were killed in last month’s conflict. The air strikes on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza were the first under Israel’s new government headed by Naftali Bennett, whose ideologically disparate coalition…

Sing me a ditty about Palestine

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in Print, Spectator

There is something profoundly disturbing and morally challenging in the way many view the Israel-Palestine conflict. The chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, once buried because of its unadulterated implication that Israel should be eliminated, is currently in vogue, doing the rounds of social media. In a recent Facebook post by the Australian…

Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes for comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust, insisting she’s ‘very much a normal person’

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in Business Insider Australia, Online

Greene apologized for her previous comparisons of COVID-19 safety measures to the Holocaust. She opened a news conference on Monday evening by saying: “I’m very much a normal person.” Greene came under fire for comparing the House mask mandate to the horrors suffered by Jews in Nazi Germany. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday evening…

Israeli military confirms Gaza air strikes

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