Author: Jmedia Manager

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Hamas has won a “psychological victory” in Gaza, according to Curtin University’s Joe Siracusa. A ceasefire brokered between the two parties has halted the violence which played out over 11 days. Mr Siracusa said a cost verses impact analysis reveals Hamas have “done a job” on Israel whose military response to the conflict was far…

Federal Labor MP caught up in ‘eliminate Israel’ social media post

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in Sky News, Television

“Eliminate Israel” is the aspiration of Hamas and other terrorist groups and their backers in Iran, says Sky News host Chris Kenny. The remarks come after a federal Labor MP allegedly posed in a Melbourne University ALP club picture which “parroted” the slogan of Hamas on the bottom line: “From the river to the sea,…

Tala Halawa and the progressive media’s anti-Semitism blindspot

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in Print, Spectator

The tale of Tala Halawa has an ever-mounting horror to it: each sentence is more disturbing than the last. First we learn that this BBC journalist proclaimed during the 2014 Israel-Gaza war that ‘Israel is more Nazi than Hitler’ and that ‘Hitler was right’. Then we encounter her assertion that ‘ur media is controlled by ur zionist government’ and…

We are witnessing an ‘explosion in anti-Semitism’ across the western world

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in Sky News, Television

Spiked Online Editor Brendan O’Neill says we are currently witnessing an “explosion in anti-Semitism” across the western world. His comments come amid news of big protests in London, supporting Palestine amid the conflict in the Middle East. “It’s horrific,” Mr O’Neill told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “There’s been around a 600 per cent rise…

Israel and the Palestinians celebrate a ceasefire — but will anything change?

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in Online, Other Source

There seems to be no interest in reviving a peace process that has been effectively moribund since the Clinton administration in the late 1990s. While details are sketchy, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire. That is good news for everyone involved. The dying can hopefully end and further destruction be avoided – at least for…

Hamas doesn’t want a Palestinian state

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in Print, Spectator

Do Hamas’s supporters in the West know what this organisation really stands for? The reality is that Hamas is no liberation movement in search of a Palestinian nation. Instead, it seeks the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic empire on its ruins. How do we know? Because senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar…

Israel-Palestine conflict: Fragile ceasefire holds as humanitarian aid arrives in Gaza

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in Other Print, Print

Truck convoys carrying humanitarian aid have started arriving at the bomb-shattered Gaza Strip, as Joe Biden vows to help ‘rebuild’ Humanitarian aid has started arriving at the bomb-shattered Gaza Strip, as the fragile ceasefire holds between Israel and Palestine. he UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund said its first aid convoys were moving into the area…

Is the worst yet to come in the Middle East?

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in Print, Spectator

If Iran steps in, the worst is still to come We can’t say yet if the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas is the start of ‘the big one’, a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising. That possibility was raised by the grandest of Middle East commentators, Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times. Friedman is sometimes…

What next for Palestinians, Israelis?

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in ABC, Radio

With a lull in attacks between Hamas and Palestinians and Israelis in Gaza and East Jerusalem, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, Rashid Khalidi, looks at the options for a sustainable solution and the crucial role to be played by the United States. Listen to Phillip Adams getting Rashid Khalidi to agree…

Biden hails Israel-Hamas ceasefire

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