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‘Wounded’ infant photo has nothing to do with Palestine conflict
An eye-catching photo of a baby with red marks across its face has been linked to the conflict in Gaza. The image, shared by a Facebook user to the group “Muslim post Australia”, shows a close-up of the infant and facial markings that resemble burns or scabs. “May Allah bless this little Palestinian angel and give her…
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Biden’s perilous appeasement
Iran has provided rockets and technology enabling Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to bombard Israeli cities, in keeping with the Islamic Republic’s genocidal intentions towards Israel and goal to destroy the Abraham Accords. According to a senior Iranian commander, placing Israel ‘under siege’ could also extract ‘concessions from America’, presumably while current intense negotiations…
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What are the conditions of co-existence in Israel-Palestine?
Israel-Palestine has plunged, yet again, into a spiral of escalating, retaliatory, terror-inducing violence — the worst such violence the land has seen since the Gaza conflict in 2014. Rockets are raining down across barriers and border walls onto Gaza, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as Israel and Hamas exchange fire; but there as also been a…
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What is Israel’s Iron Dome?
The lights split apart the night sky over Israel and Gaza – rockets and answering interceptor missiles exploding overhead in a shower of sparks, like alien warships doing battle. The violence between Israel and Palestine is now the worst seen in years – air strikes from Israeli warplanes have killed hundreds of Palestinians in densely…
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Why the Israel-Palestine conflict is different this time
The religious motivations behind the Israel-Palestine conflict. And, Israel’s own Arab citizens are showing their anger with inequality in a way that could unravel the country. Also, a recent essay in the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine argues that Australia is the new hermit kingdom because of the border closures that make it all but impossible for ordinary…
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Biden sets deadline for ‘significant de-escalation’ as Netanyahu vows to press on
US President Joe Biden has greatly increased pressure on Israel to end the war with the Palestinians that has killed more than 200 people, telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a telephone call that he expected “significant de-escalation” by day’s end. In response, Netanyahu vowed to press ahead with a fierce military offensive in the…
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Anti-semitism raises its ugly ahead (again)
Naturally, the elites blame the victim When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, the much-maligned Neville Chamberlain would not have thought of calling on both sides to lay down their arms, unlike the recent call from the US Secretary of State and the Australian Foreign Minister on both Israel and the Hamas terrorists concerning the…
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Hamas fire rockets at crossing of ‘their own’ humanitarian aid convoy
Hamas has fired rockets at the crossing where its own humanitarian aid convoy was travelling after Israel approved the aid convoy to cross into Gaza, according to Jerusalem Post columnist Emily Schrader. “Yesterday Israel did approve humanitarian aid crossing into Gaza… however, after the first eight convoys went through the crossing, Hamas actually fired rockets…
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Netanyahu vows to press on as allies and enemies talk of ceasefire
Gaza City: Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes across the Gaza Strip, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several others. The latest strikes came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against US pressure to wind down the offensive against Gaza’s Hamas militants, who have fired thousands of rockets at Israel. Explosions shook Gaza…
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Crisis in Israel ends Joe Biden’s White House honeymoon
The Biden White House is being forced to confront its first major foreign policy crisis with the week-long violence in Israel and Palestine. The conflict has cost over 230 lives, the vast majority in Palestine. Biden came into office without any grand plans to reshape the Middle East. His main focus has been on strategic competition with…