Author: Jmedia Manager
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Israeli air strikes hit Palestinian military position in Lebanon
Beirut: Attacks against Iranian-allied forces in three countries have escalated tensions across the Middle East, drawing threats of retaliation and intensifying fears that a bigger conflict could erupt. The attacks on Sunday and Monday, targeted Iranian forces and their proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq in what appeared to be a significant escalation of Israeli efforts…
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Israel strikes Iranian proxies
Israel yesterday struck twice in a handful of hours at its arch-rival Iran: launching attacks on Tehran’s troops in Syria and its proxy in Lebanon. An Israeli drone fell in the Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut and a second one exploded near the ground at 2.30am (9.30am AEST), a Hezbollah official said, in the first…
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ACHPER concedes anti-Israel claim in coursework as ‘factually incorrect’
The Australian Council for Physical Education and Recreation has conceded, after refusing to do so for six weeks, that an anti-Israel claim in Year 12 coursework it produced was factually incorrect. As recently as Friday, ACHPER had issued an apology but refused to retract the assertion that Jews in Israel persecute non-Jews, angering members of…
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US-pursued Iranian oil tanker changes port
An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the US amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington changed its listed destination to a port in Turkey early Saturday after Greece said it wouldn’t risk its relations with America by aiding it. The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its listed…
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Trumped Up: Wiki cables show Australia thinks Iran is not the aggressor
Wikileaks cables reveal Iran presents no threat to Australia and little threat to the US. Instead, clear intelligence from the US, Australia and Iran confirms Iran, although portrayed as aggressive, has pursued a defensive military strategy. Clinton Fernandez reports. This week, Australia announced it would send military forces to patrol the Persian Gulf alongside Bahrain, Britain and…
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Iran reveals home-made ‘missile defence’
Iran displayed what it described as a domestically built long-range, surface-to-air missile air defence system, at a time of rising tension with the United States. Iran shot down a US military surveillance drone in the Gulf with a surface-to-air missile in June. It says the drone was over its territory, but the United States says…
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Israel hit Iraq arms depot: US officials
US officials have confirmed that Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, an attack that would mark a significant escalation in Israel’s years-long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment across the region. The confirmation comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is strongly hinting that his country is…
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Holocaust Centre visit for GVGS
With the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland next month, Goulburn Valley Grammar School students were recently reminded of one of the darkest periods in human history. Year 10 history students visited the Holocaust Centre at the Australian Jewish Museum to learn about the extreme ideologies that shaped the 20th century. Head of humanities Darius…
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Hannah Arendt: thinking pariah
Every great thinker is subject to misrepresentation. Yet, perhaps because the political traditions of the twentieth century are so close to our own, every great twentieth-century thinker is subject to a particular kind of misrepresentation. This misrepresentation is a circus act in which the thinker is assessed by a political tradition and transformed into a…
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What is the conflict between the US and Iran about and how is Australia now involved?
As Australia commits to joining a coalition in the Strait of Hormuz, preventing escalation of any conflict should be the primary concern of all players. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that Australia will lend military support to protect shipping in the Middle East. The commitment has been long expected, with Australia sending a frigate,…