In August of 2023, Yousef Maher Dawas, a young Palestinian author, wrote a story of hope and resilience, titled “Kidney Transplant and Rebirth: A Palestinian Love Story”. On the 14th of October, Yousef was killed by an Israeli missile strike, along with several members of his family. Remember his words. He was not a number. Continue reading »
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We have a major problem with the damage that Rupert Murdoch has done to newspapers in Australia, and any self-respecting government should take steps to correct that as soon as possible. I met Rupert when I was working for Gough Whitlam in Canberra. I got to know the people in the Canberra press gallery well. Continue reading »
The Jerusalem bureau has long reviewed all CNN stories relating to Israel and Palestine. Now, it’s helping shape the network’s coverage of the war.
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Despite a reputation for violent over-reaction in Palestinian affairs, the Israeli reaction has astonished and confused the world. The atrocities committed on 7 October 2023 by the military wing of Hamas, exceed in scale, intensity and barbarity anything previously done in Israel or Palestine. Despite its enduring cruelty, nothing in the Israeli treatment of the Continue reading »
How News Corp used fear, manipulation and division to campaign against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. HOLDING NEWS CORP ACCOUNTABLE TO BUILD A BETTER MEDIA LANDSCAPE The defeat of the Voice to Parliament was a dark moment in Australian politics. This loss cannot, of course, be attributed to the actions of News Corp alone. However, Continue reading »
With QUAD and maybe JAUKUS, Japan is anxious to recruit us and others as spear carriers against China. The anti-China cause is long standing in Japan. China suffered greatly at the hands of the brutal Japanese military in the 1930s and the 1940s. Twenty million Chinese died and a large part of the country was Continue reading »
Beijing has vowed to seize “strategic opportunities” and further raise its “international influence, appeal and power” to shape a rapidly changing world by strengthening Communist Party control of foreign affairs and standing firm against “bullying” and “hegemonism” from the West. At a rare closed-door party meeting about China’s future foreign policy direction that concluded on Continue reading »
Having failed to see Beijing provoked into war over Taiwan or in the South China Sea, America itself has been dragged into war after war in Europe and the Middle East With US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin’s announcement last week of Operation Prosperity Guardian – an alliance to defend “freedom of navigation” from attacks by the Iran-backed Continue reading »
The comments come as Israeli ministers make increasingly clear their ambition to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians.
The post State Department: Israel “Must Not” Pursue “Mass Displacement of Palestinians From Gaza” appeared first on The Intercept.
“I’ve been to pretty much any conflict,” the World Food Program’s chief economist said. “And I have never seen anything like this, both in terms of its scale, its magnitude, but also at the pace that this has unfolded.” With roughly 90% of Gaza residents displaced and seeking safety from Israel’s bombardment and ground attacks, crowding Continue reading »