Author: Jmedia Manager

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Recent events reveal the evolving confrontation between Israel and Iran. Israel has undertaken an attritional air campaign against Iranian and Iranian-related targets in Syria for several years, with hundreds of strikes being reported. There have always been unstated red lines in place as part of the “rules of the game”. Any Syrian regime activity that creeps over…

Iran’s foreign minister jets into G7, turning screws on Trump

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in Australian Financial Review, Print

Biarritz | Leaders at the G7 summit were unexpectedly sidetracked into a stand-off over Iran, after the country’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, paid them a surprise visit – a French initiative that risked fanning the flames of discord between US President Donald Trump and European leaders. French President Emmanuel Macron had been using the summit to try to…

Evidence of Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem confirms biblical account

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in Online, Other Communities

New evidence has been discovered on Mount Zion that supports the biblical account of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem. Researchers at the University of North Carolina Mount Zion Archaeological Project announced this month they had discovered a deposit that includes layers of ash mixed with arrowheads dating from the period as well as Iron Age…

Lebanon accuses Israel of drone strikes, “declaration of war”

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in Online, Other Source

Lebanon’s President says Israel’s use of drones to bomb a Palestinian base in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border amounts to a declaration of war. The strike came a day after an alleged Israeli drone crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in southern Beirut while another exploded and crashed nearby. Hezbollah…

When it comes to ignorance and bigotry, The Guardian has a head start on the rest of us

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in Media Watch, Print, The Australian

And The Guardian doesn’t like Jews. Julie Burchill, its most famous columnist, quits, The Guardian, November 29, 2003: But if there is one issue that has made me feel less loyal to my newspaper over the past year, it has been what I, as a non-Jew, perceive to be a quite striking bias against the…

First lift Iran sanctions, then we’ll talk with Trump, Rouhani says

Aug 27, 2019

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

Tehran: Iran’s President back-pedaled Tuesday on possible talks with Donald Trump, saying the US president must first lift sanctions imposed on Tehran, otherwise a meeting between the two would be a mere photo op. Hassan Rouhani’s change of heart came a day after Trump said Monday that there’s a “really good chance” the two could meet…

Summit split on outreach to Iran

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in Print, The Australian

Mr Trump had tried to play down tensions among Group of Seven leaders after an intimate dinner on Saturday in the southwest French resort of Biarritz, but came out swiftly to dispute France’s claim that they had agreed to let President Emmanuel Macron deliver a message to Iran on their behalf. For several months, Mr…

Christopher Pyne: The US needs allies like Australia in this uncertain world

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in Print, The Advertiser

There is divided opinion about whether we should be in the Straits of Hormuz – but right now the United States needs us to uphold our end of the deal, writes Christopher Pyne. To most Australians the Straits of Hormuz seem a long way away. Perched almost at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula in…

Australia ‘not at odds’ with Iran, foreign minister says

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in Other Print, Print

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has defended Australia’s decision to join the United States’ military deployment to protect oil supplies from Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz, rejecting warnings of “mission creep” by former army chief Peter Leahy. Ms Payne said on Sunday Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to send 200 troops to the strait did…

Lebanon goes to UN over “Israeli assault”

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