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Four Corners “Forever War” episode reflected the endless crusade of its creator, John Lyons

March 15, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro

“The Forever War,” screened March 11, was an ABC “Four Corners” episode…

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“Anti-Zionism” is illegitimate and immoral regardless of whether or not it is antisemitic

March 12, 2024 | Oved Lobel

In the end, all forms of anti-Zionism amount to calling for the violent death and displacement of not only Jews, but Arabs in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, as well. The Jews are not going to dissolve their state and will use overwhelming and destructive force to defend it, as any people in a similar situation would.

Crowds gather for prayer at Jerusalem's Temple mount (Image Professionals GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo)

Ramadan and the Israel-Hamas ceasefire negotiations

March 8, 2024

Houthi rebel fighters fighting in Sana'a against the coalition forces (Image: Maad Ali/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News)

As the Houthis threaten international shipping, spare a thought for the people of Yemen

March 4, 2024

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After the Israel-Hamas ceasefire for hostages deal

Screenshot of Hamas bodycam footage as terrorists approach an Israeli vehicle during the terror organisation's October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel, released by the IDF and GPO (Screenshot)

Horror on Video / International Law and the Hamas War

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Anti-Zionism is an Abhorrent Ideology Regardless of Antisemitism

March 19, 2024 | Oved Lobel

If the massacres and kidnappings on October 7 and the humanitarian consequences of Israel’s war of self-defense in Gaza are not desirable outcomes — and if people still believe in the international order and the illegitimacy of advocating genocide and the destruction of recognized UN member states — then anti-Zionist advocacy of any sort must be socially and politically stigmatized regardless of whether anti-Zionism is considered antisemitic.

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Rise of anti-Semitism echoes older, more dangerous eras

March 18, 2024 | Allon Lee

Everyone agrees that all Australians have a right to freely express their opinions, choose how they spend their money and support causes without having their loyalty questioned… But not if you’re Jewish. If you’re Jewish and support Israel, expect to be smeared as belonging to a vast conspiracy reaching into the deepest recesses of power in Australia and across the world.

Fighters from Hamas' Qassam Brigades (Image: Shutterstock)

This is no time to throw Hamas a lifeline

March 15, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

Unless Hamas decides to surrender, which seems unlikely, it’s hard to see how the war can end without defeating those remaining battalions; killing, capturing or forcing into exile the organisation’s top leadership

Plans designed to keep Hamas more focused
on governing than fighting never worked
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Essay: Militancy over Governance

March 1, 2024 | Matthew Levitt

Hamas has experienced significant change – just not in the ways many people expected it would. Whereas some assessed that participating in Palestinian national politics or ruling the Gaza Strip would moderate, or at least co-opt, Hamas’ inclination to violence, that did not prove to be the case.

Fighting but also learning: Israeli soldiers in Gaza (Image: IDF)

“An absolutely unique form of enemy”

March 1, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro

“What we had known and understood about our enemy, about Hamas, [before October 7] turned out to be completely wrong,” said Rettig Gur. “We thought that they were deterred by our massive firepower. And we discovered, on October 7th, that in fact, not only had they not been deterred, they had developed a doctrine, a very subtle and complex and sophisticated doctrine, for deterring us.”

New Palestinian leadership needed, but not in the mould of Haj Amin al-Husseini, Yasser Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas (Images: Wikimedia Commons)

Want two states? Build a better Palestinian leadership

March 1, 2024 | Douglas J. Feith

The aid donors’ challenge is to recruit those who might have the courage, integrity and ability to spend future aid money properly. This means using the aid to buy not explosives, rockets and tunnels for terrorist attacks, but apartment buildings, sanitation systems, power plants, and financial support for farms and factories.

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Media Microscope: Doxx-land

Mar 1, 2024

Security forces of the Palestinian National Authority in Bethlehem (Image: Shutterstock)

Two states talk is hopeless without enforcement

Mar 1, 2024

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Deconstruction Zone: UNRWA is a threat to coexistence

Mar 1, 2024

A different sort of campaign this time round: Prabowo Subianto at an election rally (Image: Shutterstock)

President Prabowo: Strongman or responsible statesman?

Mar 1, 2024

Pro-Palestinian protestors recently forced New Zealand’s PM Chris Luxon to leave one of the summer go-to events for politicians

AIR New Zealand: UNRWA and the fury of NZ’s anti-Israel activists

Mar 1, 2024

Muslim clerics praising (or not condemning) Hamas’ atrocities has deeply shaken Jewish interfaith outreach (YouTube screenshot)

The Last Word: Burning bridges or building them? 

Feb 29, 2024

Abu Mariam's sermon at the Roselands Mosque (December 2023): Jews cause "corruption and evil on Earth" (YouTube screenshot)

Sydney Mosque a key centre of extremist preaching

Feb 29, 2024

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar enjoying the relative safety of a Gazan tunnel (Image: IDF/ screenshot)

Human shields and scapegoats

Feb 29, 2024

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Noted and Quoted – March 2024

Feb 29, 2024