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Many of Israel’s Western supporters indicate they would arrest Netanyahu. Will Australia and NZ follow suit?

Ever since the October 7 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Albanese government has consistently said Australia respects Israel’s right to defend itself, but how it does so matters. To an international lawyer, those words are code for simultaneously exercising the right of self defence and respecting international humanitarian law. In effect, remaining compliant […]

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Australia’s Israel Policy at the Crossroads: How much worse can it get before Australia takes a principled stand?

The horrific situation in the Middle East has landed Foreign Minister Penny Wong with a difficult and frustrating job. She is wedged between a so-far unacknowledged obligation to honour Australia’s legal commitments to condemn Israeli genocide and apartheid on the one hand, and on the other, a vociferous campaign by local Zionists and their supporters […]

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Israel war: Palestinians adrift after UNRWA aid ban

There is no alternative to the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, its chief insisted, following Israel’s order to ban the organisation that coordinates nearly all aid in war-ravaged Gaza. “There is no plan B,” head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, told reporters in Geneva. Within the UN […]

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Australia legally obliged to act on Israel war warrants

Australia would be forced to arrest Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister on charges of war crimes under an international court ruling that’s splitting the global community. The International Criminal Court (ICC) found there were reasonable grounds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant bore criminal responsibility for alleged war […]

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Minister defends UN vote for Palestine resource rights

Australia is supporting a push for Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources, arguing Israel impeding access undermines stability and peace prospects. A United Nations draft resolution that passed overwhelmingly demanded Israel “the occupying power, cease the exploitation, damage, cause of loss or depletion and endangerment of the natural resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”. It further […]

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Taxpayers pay for Gaza protesters’ office vandalism

Anti-Israel protesters have cost taxpayers at least $118,000 by vandalising federal offices over the war in the Middle East, with a single Jewish MP suffering an overwhelming share of the damage. Labor MP Josh Burns, whose grandmother fled Nazi Germany, was targeted by attacks that cost at least $89,300. Vandals lit fires, smashed windows and […]

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