On the surface, Australia appears to be investigating how our passports were used in the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai but will any of this really affect Israeli/Australian relations in the long run? The Australian Federal Police will send a team of agents to Israel this week to investigate how forged Australian passports…
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Time to cool dealings with Israel, says leading Aussie Palestinian group
The following statement is released today by Australians for Palestine:
Secrets and lies between friends over Mossad murder
My following article is published today on ABC Unleashed/The Drum: Israel is a protected species in the international arena. Many Western states, including Australia, have long tolerated behaviour by the Jewish state that is condemned if committed by any other democracy. This reality makes the current scandal over the alleged Mossad hit last month in…
Who really sees Israel as the underdog anymore?
The Financial Times’ David Gardiner argues that Israel’s policy of assassinations is actually incredibly counter-productive (despite the numbers of Jews in Australia over the last week celebrating the death of the Hamas operative in Dubai, despite countless laws being broken in the process): Levi Eshkol, prime minister when Israel won a crushing victory in the…
Australian media continue to drag Israel down to where she belongs
“Jerusalem has lost friends” is the headline on this Age story: This vote is clearly an act of retaliation by Australia – and by Britain, France and Germany. Israel has lost friends thanks to the sordid affair in Dubai concerning fake passports and murder, and the stink will hang in the air a good while…
Australians discuss how Israel uses/abuses the Holocaust
The following letters appear in today’s Australian newspaper: IT was shocking to read that Malcolm Fraser accused Israel of using the Holocaust to justify state-sanctioned murder (“Holocaust no excuse for murder: Fraser”, 27-28/2) . No, it is not anti-Semitic to criticise Israel, but to suggest that the alleged killers of Hamas militant Mahmoud al-Mabhouh are…
2SER interview on the Australia/Israel passport scandal
I was interviewed late last week on Sydney’s 2SER current affairs radio, The Razor’s Edge, on Australia’s currently testy relationship with Israel over the passport debacle.
Former Aussie ambassador questions the closeness between Israel and Australia
The following article in today’s Sunday Age is by Ross Burns, a former Australian Ambassador in the Middle East: In the course of a career in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, much of it spent handling Middle East matters, I rarely heard language as portentous as the statements on relations with Israel from…
Canberra joins the Dubai hunt for Israeli clues
At least publicly, Australia is moving forward with its investigation into Israel’s alleged criminality in Dubai: Australian authorities are working in an international team to track down the killers of a top Hamas militant who are suspected of being Israeli agents. A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed Australian officials were…
The Australian public is getting a good, long hard look at Israeli behaviour
The latest developments in the Australia/Israeli passport scandal: First this: A terrified Australian woman whose identity was used in the assassination of a top Hamas official says the federal government has not yet offered her any help. Pregnant Nicole McCabe, 27, said she had no idea how her identity was stolen, as she still had…