The Orchard

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‘It will not be an occupation; the goal is to eliminate Hamas’

It was an unusually candid moment. Speaking to a small group of journalists before Thursday night’s Security Cabinet meeting—a rare move in itself—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made something crystal clear: Israel’s upcoming operation in Gaza is not about permanent occupation. Read more

‘No real difference between PM’s and IDF chief’s visions for Gaza’

Israel’s Security Cabinet convened on Thursday night for a decisive meeting to shape the next phase of the war in Gaza, amid a high-stakes and public debate between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the military’s top command. Read more

The media front in the war against civilisation

Dramatic evidence was produced this week to illustrate the hijacking of the Western media by Hamas in its attempt to turn Israel into the pariah of the world and accelerate the destruction of the Jewish state. Read more

Contemptible

This year’s commemoration of Tisha B’Av was more memorable than usual. Read more

The Future

This past Shabbat, as every year before the Fast of Av, is called Shabbat Chazon, and we read the negative Haftarah from the First Chapter of the Book of Yeshayahu (Isaiah). Read more

At the brink of occupation: confronting a changing narrative

Since October 7, 2023, the way Australia has talked about Israel and Gaza has shifted again and again, each time moving the so-called “red line” further away from where it once stood. Read more

Weapons

A movie review by Alex First Read more

L’Chaim to Life

Maurice Klein speaks with David Collier, investigative journalist exposing extremism, antisemitism, anti-Zionism, the BBC, media bias and much more. Read more

“Either us or the Zionists! There is no room for both.”

After a century of Palestinian rejectionism, nothing has changed. Read more

Shabbat VaEtchanan Nachamu

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What’s Yours

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Is combating media bias Netanyahu’s mission impossible?

The contrast was glaring. A week after The New York Times put a horrifying yet completely misleading picture of a Palestinian Arab child in Gaza on its front page to illustrate a story that lent weight to the false claim that Israel was deliberately starving people in Gaza, it had an opportunity to put an equally awful photo in the same spot. Read more

It had to be Tisha b’Av!

On the 20^th anniversary to the day of the fateful disengagement marking the end of Jewish residence in the Gaza strip, Australia, to its shame, added its imprimatur to the perfidious list of “allies of Israel” who have succeeded, one way or another, to calumniate and defame the Jewish State. Read more

After the bridge: where do we go from here?

Normally, by midweek, I’m sitting down to write—an op-ed, a column, a reflection to be published here in Australia or shared across the globe. It’s something I do routinely, not out of obligation, but because there is always something urgent to say—something that needs to be said. Read more

‘Hasbara’ and the traitors among us

The release on Thursday and Friday of two hostage videos—the first by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad captors of Rom Braslavski and the second by the Hamas monsters holding Evyatar David—coincided with the global propaganda campaign claiming that Israel is purposely starving the population of Gaza. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Tossy, Issy, and Adolf Spivakovsky – an amazing musical family Read more

A two-state solution? Maybe the best way to ‘ensure’ another slaughter

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The Friend

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Bride Hard

A movie review by Alex First Read more

UN self-destructing in pursuit of dead two-state solution

The New York Declaration (Declaration) issued at the conclusion of the High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, held in New York City under the joint chairmanship of Saudi Arabia and France on 27-29 July, marks the beginning of the self-destruction of the United Nations. Read more

August 3, Sydney

This was Australia, Sunday 3rd August 2025, not Berlin 1935. Read more

On the other hand

Israeli cows are world champions. Read more

Perfidious

This one word encompasses several meanings applicable to the situation being faced today by Israel and Jews worldwide. Read more

If we can’t answer, who will?

This past week, I responded publicly to a dangerously misguided statement made by Dr Sophie Scamps, the Independent MP for Mackellar. Read more

The Marriage of Figaro

An opera review by Murray Dahm Read more

The Starving Children of Gaza

As the human and humanitarian tragedy that is Gaza keeps unfolding before our eyes, no one with any sense of decency or compassion can remain silent. Read more

Ninth of Av and the Holocaust

Every year, the Ninth of Av ( this year on Sunday) raises the issue of the Holocaust. Read more

Ruptured

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin – Shattered dreams and fragile hopes Read more

Anti-Israel virtue-signalling on Gaza is immoral

The avalanche of anti-Israel propaganda as a result of a flurry of reports of alleged starvation in the Gaza Strip is starting to overwhelm even the most stalwart supporters of the Jewish state. Read more

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