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International
Labor goes one way, Israel the other
Tony Walker
6 December 2024
Australia’s vote on Gaza this week highlights a decades-long shift in the major parties’ attitudes towards Israel
Books & arts
Resisting resolution
Sara Dowse
3 December 2024
A novelist reflects on “exile as agony but also as ethical position”
International
Gathering storm
Tony Walker
3 October 2024
As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander
Middle East
Cycle of revenge
Tony Walker
19 September 2024
Israel’s intensifying effort to deter its enemies adds to the risk of an escalation in regional violence
Essays & reportage
Gaza at The Hague
Sophie Rigney
13 September 2024
What the International Court of Justice says about Israel’s treatment of the occupied territories and what it means for Australia
International
Fractured consensus
Tony Walker
2 September 2024
As Israeli protesters take to the streets, news emerges that defence minister Yoav Gallant has clashed again with Benjamin Netanyahu
International
Violence begetting violence
Tony Walker
2 August 2024
While the United States fumbles, more provocations have lifted the risks of a region-wide conflict in the Middle East
National affairs
History’s burdens
Tony Walker
17 July 2024
Labor’s foundational support for Israel still colours its attitude towards Palestinian statehood
International
Middle Eastern tinderbox
Tony Walker
21 June 2024
As the merciless bombings continue in Gaza, developments on the Lebanon–Israel border are adding to the risk of yet more warfare
International
Gantz’s gamble
Tony Walker
12 June 2024
Does Benny Gantz have the qualities needed to bring down a prime minister determined to prolong a brutal war?
Books & arts
The wall
Sara Dowse
24 April 2024
A Palestinian father’s story of life and death in the Occupied Territories
International
Wait of history
Tony Walker
17 April 2024
A long-vaunted “two-state solution” for Israel and Palestine seems more remote than ever
International
Hamas’s dark calculus
Hamish McDonald
10 April 2024
Pressure is mounting among Israel’s allies for a long-term settlement
International
Playing with fire
Tony Walker
2 April 2024
The Israeli attack in Damascus has increased the risk of a region-wide conflict
International
Too little, too late
Tony Walker
11 March 2024
In the tortured history of America’s relationship with Israel there has scarcely been a more fraught moment
International
March of folly
Tony Walker
28 January 2024
The carnage in Israel and Gaza can’t be understood without tracing the realignments sparked by America’s war in Iraq
International
A turning point for Gaza?
Tony Walker
13 December 2023
This week’s vote could be one of the General Assembly’s more momentous
Essays & reportage
Israel’s failed bombing campaign in Gaza
Robert A. Pape
8 December 2023
Collective punishment won’t defeat Hamas
International
The day after
Tony Walker
17 November 2023
What might a postwar scenario look like in Israel and Palestine?
International
How Israel’s deterrence policy came undone
Lawrence Freedman
1 November 2023
And what it means for Gaza’s future
International
Netanyahu’s war
Peter Rodgers
19 October 2023
Hamas’s appalling attack has exposed a government with no plan for resolving its country’s greatest challenges
Books & arts
Memoirs of a Middle East tragic
Graeme Dobell
12 July 2023
A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world
International
A thousand frontiers
Dimi Reider
16 May 2021
Why Netanyahu and Hamas both risk losing control of the conflict in Gaza
National affairs
Can the drift be stopped?
Hamish McDonald
4 June 2020
A new voice in the Australian Jewish community retains hopes of a two-state solution to the Israel–Palestine conflict
International
American disruption, Saudi logic
Ross Burns
25 June 2019
Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump is doing the crown prince’s bidding
International
Will today’s allies become, yet again, tomorrow’s enemies?
John Quiggin
6 October 2014
When a militarily powerful country tries to govern the affairs of millions of people on the other side of the planet, we shouldn’t be surprised that chaos results, writes…
International
Israel vs Hamas: the flawed assumptions
Paul Rogers
31 July 2014
Israel won’t achieve its aims in Gaza without a long-term occupation, writes
Paul Rogers
. In the meantime, only its enemies are benefiting from the growing civilian…
Books & arts
The land of living dangerously
Sara Dowse
13 February 2014
Would bending be the bravest option for Israel, asks
Sara Dowse
Books & arts
Israel’s shifting moorings
Sara Dowse
13 June 2013
Sara Dowse
reviews two books that deal, in different ways, with the future of Israel
International
Günter Grass, again
Klaus Neumann
19 April 2012
The Nobel laureate’s latest intervention in public debate says more about him than about the Middle East, writes
Klaus Neumann
. But it also draws attention to…
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