Hamas mulling truce…in exchange for seaport

Hamas leaders are discussing a possible five-year cease-fire with Israel during a meeting with Qatar, according to the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper. Read more

Was Israel’s response in the 2014 Gaza War disproportionate?

Days before the release of the United Nations Human Rights Council report on the 2014 Gaza War, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has released a 3-minute video that confronts one of the main accusations made against Israel throughout and after the war—that Israel’s response to Gaza’s rocket fire on Israeli civilian population centers was “disproportionate.” Read more

Gaza war means a particularly sobering Yom Hazikaron for Israel this year

Since Israel was founded in 1948, its numerous wars have taken a heavy toll on its small population…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

Don’t mention the war…writes Michael Kuttner

Do you remember the episode from Fawlty Towers where a group of German tourists was due to visit and Basil, played by John Cleese, warned his staff “don’t mention the war?” Read more

Sydney Morning Herald cartoon breached Press Council’s Standards of Practice

The Press Council has deemed a controversial cartoon published in the Sydney Morning Herald in July last year during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza to have “emphasised religious persuasion rather than Israeli nationality” and had breached the Council’s Standards of Practice. Read more

For Israeli families bereaved by Gaza war, a ‘lonely journey’ is still in its early stages

“There isn’t a day that I don’t think about him.” Shosh Goldmacher tells Maayan Jaffe [JNS.org] Read more

Palestine – Mapping The Truth Erases A Long-running Fiction

The US State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs has featured a map on its website – which both rejects and corrects the misleading use of the terms “1967 boundaries” and “1967 borders” – which have never existed in relation to any territorial subdivision between Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Read more

Perth woman talks of her Gaza experience

Elle Shmuel spoke to members of the Perth community of her experiences in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. Read more

How to win a Walkley…writes Emily Gian

Step 1: Become Middle East Correspondent, Step 2: Write incessantly against Israel Read more

Gaza – Australian Politicians Duped By Dud Declaration…writes David Singer

The Canberra Declaration on Gaza signed by 76 current and former Federal and State parliamentarians displays their total factual ignorance and political naiveté concerning the war raging between Hamas and Israel for the last six weeks. Read more

Truce does not equal peace…writes Michael Kuttner

One of the problems we face these days is the inability to recognise reality even when it smacks us in the face. Read more

Peres Visits Bereaved Families

President Shimon Peres has personally visited the families of IDF soldiers killed in Gaza. Read more

Palestine – Israel Takes Off The Gloves…writes David Singer

Israel’s disastrous unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in August 2005 faces possible reversal with the Israeli army’s re-entry into Gaza in July 2014. Read more

We ceased, they fired…writes Michael Kuttner

As soon as the so called ceasefire was announced anyone with even a smattering of common sense could have and indeed did predict that this farce would not last longer than a snowball in hell. Read more

From Benjamin Netanyahu

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following statement following Hamas’s rejection of the ceasefire. Read more

NZ calls for Kiwis to quit Gaza

New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has said his country strongly supports the United Nations Security Council’s call for a ceasefire between the Israelis and Palestinians. Read more

A message from President Peres

The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, has addressed the current  security situation saying “Hamas terrorists aims to kill and injure as many innocent Israelis as possible.” Read more

Palestine – Abbas Facing Prosecution For Aiding And Abetting War Crimes…writes David Singer

Mahmoud Abbas – Head of the Government of National Consensus in Gaza since 2 June – faces prosecution in the international criminal justice system for aiding and abetting war crimes involving the indiscriminate firing of 384 rockets and missiles from Gaza into Israeli population centres reaching as far away as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the past four days. Read more

Aussies told to evacuate from Gaza…immediately

The Australian Department  of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra has issued a directive to all Australians currently in Gaza to evacuate immediately with the Australian embassy in Tel Aviv on standby to arrane travel plans to Amman in Jordan. Read more

New Zealanders told to quit Gaza

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says New Zealand is greatly concerned at the recent escalation of violence in Gaza and Israel, and in particular the deaths of civilians. Read more

Under fire

From Michael Kuttner at  5:40am  AEST:  40 rockets fired towards Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, Bet Shemesh, Tel Aviv and other cities. Read more

Melbourne gets Gaza gen

Over 300 members of Melbourne’s Jewish community gathered at the Caulfield Hebrew Congregation last week to participate in a situation briefing and advocacy session on the Gaza flotilla incident and its implications. Read more

ECAJ Responds to Church Criticism

Queensland Churches Together [QCT] published  a media release condemning Israel’s actions in the Gaza Flotilla Incident. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry answered their criticism. Read more

Gaza flotilla update from the ECAJ and ZFA

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Zionist Federation of Australia have issued a joint statement on the Gaza flotilla incident. Read more

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