Written by Michael Curtis who is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in political science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. USA. Curtis, the author of 30 books, is widely respected as an authority on the Middle East Faking news has become a Palestinian cottage industry. The most diabolic aspect of Palestinian propaganda is the …
Read More »We are you, and you are us – Israel and Australia share values
Yuval Rotem, is/was Israel’s ambassador to Australia. I had the privilege to be introduced to him, and to attend a few functions which he too attended. He really is a very warm and witty man, who appears to have a great relationship with Barry (Baruch) O’Farrell. I suspect the two …
Read More »Expanding the Focus
Perhaps the biggest problem that we face in understanding the Arab-Israel conflict has to do with focus. That is, among western liberals the typical understanding of the conflict is that it is one between Israelis and Palestinians fighting over a bit of turf, since November of 1947, on the eastern …
Read More »Obama at the United Nations (Or, Déjà Vu All Over Again)
The very prospect of going through Obama’s recent speech at the United Nations is just simply depressing. Nevertheless, let’s have at it. In the near term, America’s diplomatic efforts will focus on two particular issues: Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Iran clearly has nothing to fear …
Read More »Steering clear of talking about terror.
ZFA Israel Advocacy Update. 25 September 2013 – Submitted and written by Gabrielle ‘Gabsy’ Debinski. Media and Advocacy Director of the Zionist Federation of Australia…………….. The world has been rocked by tragedy over the past week. Closest to home, Israel is in mourning. First, twenty-year old Israeli, Tomer Hazan was lured …
Read More »Nicole Bernstein Hands Out Friendship and Hope
As my readers will recall, lecturer Ghassan Zakaria, of San Diego State University, gave out a map of the Middle East to his students with the homeland of the Jewish people deleted. This kind of thing is pernicious because without actually criticizing Israel, Zakaria merely makes the country of our …
Read More »Construction at new settlement damages archaeological sites?
I was quite horrified today reading this item at Ma’an News. About Ma’an News: Launched in 2005, Ma’an News Agency (MNA) publishes news around the clock in Arabic and English, and is among the most browsed websites in the Palestinian territories, with over 3 million visits per month. Considered the …
Read More »The Jews and Political Islam
The rise of political Islam represents the single most significant challenge to the Jewish people in the world today. Political Islam, as it is represented by such organizations as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, is a deeply malicious political movement that we in the west should be forcefully …
Read More »‘Two-state clarification.’
ZFA Israel Advocacy Update. 18 September 2013 – Submitted and written by Gabrielle ‘Gabsy’ Debinski. Media and Advocacy Director of the Zionist Federation of Australia…………….. I was horrified this week to come across a piece titled ‘Two-State Illusion’ which appeared on the front page of the New York Times Opinion Page last …
Read More »The year that was 5773
ZFA Israel Advocacy Update. 04 September 2013. Submitted and written by Gabsy Debinski. Media and Advocacy Director of the Zionist Federation of Australia…………….. As always when it comes to Israel, and the Jewish world, the past year has been bitter-sweet; marked by both pain and celebration. Currently, Israel stands as …
Read More »Taking Back Our History
The Jewish people in the Middle East are a people under siege. Aside from the perpetual violence leveled at the Jewish minority in the region, the Jewish people are also subject to the theft of our history. This is a theft that cannot be measured in financial terms. This is …
Read More »The Gatekeepers was always going to present a challenge for those watching it outside of Israel.
Latest Opinion piece by Dr. Ron Weiser AM. Immediate Past President of the Zionist Federation of Australia, Honorary Life President of the Zionist Council of New South Wales and Committee Member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency (The Sochnut) In an unprecedented move, all of the living …
Read More »‘If we don’t step in for Israel, who will?’
ZFA Israel Advocacy Update. 29 August 2013. Submitted and written by Gabsy Debinski. Media and Advocacy Director of the Zionist Federation of Australia…. Over the past few months, tempers have flared and debates have gotten feisty between various Zionist organizations within our own community. In the short time since I …
Read More »Standing up for the Jewish people (or: Stuart’s Folly)
It has to be understood that one cannot stand for the well-being of the Jewish people if one refuses to stand against political Islam. The rise of political Islam is the foremost challenge to Jewish sovereignty and Jewish well-being in the world today. All throughout the Middle East imams and …
Read More »Regavim exposes Bedouin Gangs
About Regavim Regavim (The National Land Protection Trust) is an independent professional research institute & policy planning think tank, incorporated as a private non-profit company in Israel. The mission of the institute is to ensure responsible, legal & accountable use of Israel’s national lands and the return of the rule …
Read More »“Dangerous Threats By BDS” Force Salif Keita Israel Show Cancellation
Written by Aussie Dave. An Aussie immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave is founder of Israellycool, one of the world’s most popular pro-Israel blogs. He is a happy family man, and a lover of steak, Australian sports and girlie drinks……. Mere weeks after Eric Burdon revealed he was threatened by BDSholes …
Read More »Israel. The un-apartheid state. A comparison with Australia
The author, Andrew Hamilton, is an Australian solicitor working for Shurat HaDin – The Israel Law Center in Tel Aviv. He recently brought a complaint under Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act against one of the leaders of the BDS movement in Australia, Prof. Jake Lynch of Sydney University. Link: Shurat HaDin …
Read More »Barack Obama’s Support for the Rise of Political Islam
It remains fairly astonishing that most diaspora Jews still do not understand that United States president Barack Obama assisted the rise of political Islam throughout the Middle East, particularly in Egypt. One very simple fact needs to be understood by people who care about US foreign policy in the Middle …
Read More »Muslims Slaughter Muslims in Lebanon and Blame the Jews
The snippet below was written by Gil Ronen and published by Arutz Sheva. Link HERE: At least 20 people were killed and more than 212 were injured on Thursday when a car bomb went off near a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut’s Dahia quarter, a security source in Lebanon said. …
Read More »Myths and Facts 34: “If Israel Ends the Occupation There Will Be Peace”
New from the Jewish Virtual Library …………Palestinians and their supporters often claim that the only thing that needs to happen in the Middle East is for Israel to “End the Occupation” of the West Bank. They print this slogan on T-shirts, bumper stickers, flyers and coffee mugs. But does it …
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