Concern over Bishop Iran trip
FRESH concern has been expressed over Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s trip to Tehran last weekend. Following the visit, it was revealed that Bishop had agreed to share intelligence with Iranian...
View ArticleLocal dismay over Iran deal
AS Australia woke to the news yesterday that an agreement had been reached with Iran to curb its nuclear program, critics were already dissecting and finding problems with the deal. Under the terms...
View ArticleA top brass take on the Gaza war
ISRAEL’S actions during last year’s Operation Protective Edge were lawful and justified, according to Major-General Jim Molan, who addressed the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum on Tuesday night....
View ArticleFearing Iran in 2025
THE deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran is essentially “a wager by the United States that Iran will undergo regime change”, because the consequences in the second decade after the agreement would...
View Article‘Obama bad for Jews, world’
ISI Leibler pulled no punches in a frank assessment of the Jewish world he gave late last month. Visiting from Jerusalem, the former president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, and...
View ArticleIran, ISIS, bipartisanship in ZFA spotlight
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Israeli columnist and editor Shmuel Rosner engaged in a vibrant, robust conversation at the Zionist Federation of Australia’s 2015 plenary on Sunday. The...
View ArticleMid East under the spotlight
ISRAEL’S relations with several of its Arab neighbours have never been better. That is the view of former senior adviser to George W Bush Elliott Abrams, who was in Australia last week as a guest of...
View ArticleBishop, Danby trade blows over Iran
SENIOR Labor Party figures are backing Melbourne Ports MP Michael Danby’s call for a parliamentary debate about Australia’s relations with Iran, with a motion to be moved once parliament resumes, his...
View ArticleALP urges Iran debate
DEPUTY Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek has officially added her voice to that of her colleague Michael Danby, moving a motion in Parliament this week calling for a parliamentary debate on Australia’s...
View ArticleBishop: No shift in Iran policy
FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop declared there has been no shift in Australia’s foreign policy towards Iran and Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria when she met with leaders of the Executive Council of...
View ArticleECAJ urges new Iran sanctions
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has called for fresh sanctions on Iran following the lifting of previous sanctions on the Islamic Republic as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
View ArticleSenate to probe Iran sanctions rollback
THE Australian government’s decision to lift sanctions on Iran in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal will come under the spotlight in Parliament after Labor this week moved to refer the policy change...
View ArticleGantz tackles the big issues
A SOLD-OUT auditorium greeted former Israel Defence Forces chief Benny Gantz at the United Israel Appeal’s (UIA’s) general division eastern suburbs function on Monday night. Appearing in a Q&A...
View ArticleFury over Iranian Foreign Minister’s visit
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has remained largely silent on the Australian visit of her Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif next week, as part of a six-nation Asia-Pacific tour. But the...
View ArticleBishop tackles Zarif over Israel
AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she raised Australia’s “deep concern” about Iran’s behaviour towards Israel when she met with her Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Canberra on...
View ArticleIran report welcomed
THE findings of a Senate committee’s inquiry into the partial lifting of suspension of sanctions against Iran, released last week, have been welcomed by Melbourne Ports MP Michael Danby and Executive...
View ArticleTerror of the Iranian revolution
FILM REVIEW of Septembers of Shiraz by Don Perlgut — Based on true events, the film Septembers of Shiraz had its genesis as a novel by Iranian-born, New York-based Jewish author Dalia Sofer, who moved...
View ArticleBishop: ‘Australia will never forget’
VISIBLY moved, Julie Bishop wrapped up her visit to Yad Vashem on Sunday by highlighting the “special place” that Holocaust survivors have in the hearts of Australians. At the end of a one-and-a-half...
View ArticleObama: Incitement, settlement must end
In his swan song to the United Nations, President Barack Obama urged the Palestinians to end incitement and Israel to end settlement. “Surely Israelis and Palestinians will be better off if...
View ArticleBibi in the States
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back home from a high-stakes trip to America. The visit put Israel’s most important alliance under a microscope, with so much riding on it. But how much of what he...
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