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It’s time to make noise about freeing Kylie Moore-Gilbert from Iran
Diplomacy and hostage negotiation are both subtle businesses. The training, culture and professional instincts of diplomats and negotiators make them inclined to operate behind the scenes to solve problems. Better to work relationships to sort things out quietly, they argue, than get all shouty in public where the messaging can get out of hand. So…
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Reactions to the Trump peace plan
Abba Eban also said “men and nations only behave rationally once they have exhausted all other alternatives” (Letters, 31/1). Palestinians believe they still have alternatives. George Fishman, Vaucluse, NSW Donald Trump says his peace plan will work. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says “this conspiracy deal will not pass”. Abbas pledged to resist the deal saying…
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Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’: Delivered to be rejected
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan to alter the position of the West Bank contravenes international law and only serves to help both he and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to be re-elected. They knew the Palestinians would reject it, so why did they announce it? The deal is an elephant in the room and simply to…
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Palestinians protest US Middle East plan
Palestinians have held demonstrations across the region to protest President Donald Trump’s Middle East initiative, while militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets and mortar rounds at Israel, drawing retaliatory strikes. The Palestinians have rejected the Trump plan, which heavily favours Israel and would allow it to annex all of its Jewish settlements, along with…
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Auschwitz couple who found each other 72 years later
When Holocaust survivor David Wisnia met his concentration camp girlfriend, former Australian resident Helen Spitzer, he learnt she saved his life – five times. The first time he spoke to her, in 1943, by the Auschwitz crematory, David Wisnia realised that Helen Spitzer was no regular inmate. Zippi, as she was known, was clean, always…
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Iranian factory that makes flags to burn is doing a roaring trade
Khomein: Business is booming at Iran’s largest flag factory, which makes US, British and Israeli flags for protesters to burn. At the factory in the town of Khomein, southwest of the capital Tehran, young men and women print the flags by hand then hang them up to dry. The factory produces about 2000 US and Israeli…
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Israel ups troops in disputed territories
The Israeli army announced an increased presence in the West Bank and near Gaza on Thursday, as US President Donald Trump’s peace plan sparked outrage among Palestinians. The plan was widely cheered in Israel but sparked fury among Palestinians, with protests breaking out in the West Bank and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. One rocket was…
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Gaza Surf Project makes waves
The Gaza Surf Project aims to establish a surf life saving club in Gaza to teach lifesaving and run a Nippers program for young people. Palestinians living in Gaza continue to face the ongoing effects of Israel’s crippling blockade. For many Palestinians, particularly children, the beach is the only playground they have left. The Northern…
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Trump’s ‘win-win’ plan hands everything to Israel
After much anticipation and with great ceremony, on January 28 United States President Donald Trump presented his plan for Middle East peace. It’s “a great plan”, Trump had already said a few days earlier, though he may just have been humouring his son-in-law Jared Kushner, its chief architect. On January 28, he called the plan “win-win,” though to whom the second win goes is…
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64 US troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following Iran’s missile attack
A total of 64 US service members have been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injuries in the wake of the Iranian missile attack on US forces in Iraq earlier this month, the Pentagon revealed Thursday evening, confirming an earlier CNN report. President Donald Trump initially reported that “no Americans were harmed,” but subsequent reports revealed…