Middle East
Jared Kushner during a Cabinet meeting in the White House in Washington, D.C., May 9, 2018. (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)
April 18, 2019, 12:00 am
Kushner says Trump Middle East peace plan will be unveiled in June
The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan will be unveiled in June, White House special adviser Jared Kushner said.
The SWF panel. Photo: Twitter
May 10, 2018, 12:00 am
Festival session a parody masquerading as debate
No-one suggests every political session at the SWF need comprise an equal number of protagonists advocating competing perspectives; but surely the integrity of the festival demands what on any objective analysis should be a reasonable measure of balance.
Israeli journalist Alon Ben-David.
March 1, 2018, 5:56 pm
Ben-David: The existential threat is gone
A sober look at the emerging new Middle East shows that Israel has an unprecedented opportunity to secure its future way beyond the next 70 years.
Federal Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek.
July 6, 2017, 12:02 am
Labor ‘urged’ to recognise Palestine
A PROPOSED motion urging the next Federal Labor government to recognise Palestine will be put forward at this month’s NSW Labor State Conference.
By Joshua Levi
leading geopolitics and terrorism expert Hagai Segal.
June 16, 2017, 12:01 am
Segal unlocks Middle East puzzle
WITH a topic as complex and rapidly changing as ‘The New Middle East and Why it Matters’, leading geopolitics and terrorism expert Hagai Segal began by saying, “I could talk about this for the next seven hours.”
By Shane Desiatnik
An Indigenous young man from Ntaria, Northern Territory who is part of the From the Bush to Beersheba Project.
June 4, 2017, 12:01 am
Indigenous contribution to Charge
TWO major projects will result in groups of Indigenous Australians travelling to Israel in October to participate in the re-enactment of the Australian Light Horse Charge that resulted in the capture of Beersheva from the Turks 100 years ago.
Meryl Swanson speaking at the Rambam debrief. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
April 4, 2017, 12:01 am
Israel trip empowers MPs
THREE federal MPs fresh from a Rambam study week in Israel and the West Bank say they now feel more empowered to play an informed and active role when Middle East matters are debated in Parliament and their own parties.
A baby from Gaza with congenital heart disease being treated at Sheba Hospital.
March 30, 2017, 4:22 pm
Rozana offers vision of peace
The Middle East is littered with well-intentioned proposals to end the long-running dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.
Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: REUTERS.
January 19, 2017, 12:00 am
Netanyahu: A ‘useless conference’
WHEN 70 countries assembled in Paris to talk Middle East peace on Sunday, there was one notable absence: Israel.
Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg speaking Mobile World Congress 2015 at the Fira Gran Via complex in Barcelona, Spain.
July 6, 2016, 1:26 pm
Facebook under fire
Israel has responded to the latest terror by angrily pointing fingers at the Palestinian leadership and at Facebook – and by taking some major policy moves.
Elliott Abrams.
September 18, 2015, 12:00 am
Mid East under the spotlight
ISRAEL’S relations with several of its Arab neighbours have never been ­better.
By Evan Zlatkis
January 9, 2015, 12:00 am
Atlas omitting Israel pulped
ONE of the world’s leading publishing houses has apologised for leaving Israel off the map in an atlas for children it sells to English-speaking schools in the Middle East.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
June 26, 2014, 12:00 am
Abbott: Jihadists not welcome
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has welcomed Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s promise to take a hard line on keeping jihadists out of Australia.
By Gareth Narunsky
August 4, 2011, 9:48 am
The Blair peace project
THE role of a mediator is not to merely go between two parties but to lead them to a position where they want peace, Middle East Quartet representative and former British prime minister Tony Blair told an audience in Sydney last Friday.
By Gareth Narunsky
July 28, 2011, 1:04 pm
Blair down under
PEACE in the Middle East is a struggle between those with open minds and those with closed minds, according to Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair.
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