“Israel has a right to defend itself but how it does so matters” is the mantra of the US and its proxies use when dealing with Israel’s ever-expanding war in this troubled region.

In mid-1982, Israel launched a limited military operation in Lebanon, calling it "Peace for Galilee". Defence Minister Ariel Sharon sold a military contingency plan dubbed "Little Pines" to Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

It is amazing how one man's determination to remain in office has led to conflict and soaring tensions in this region.

 Israel's 11-month military campaign in Gaza is a war against children. Children are killed, wounded, permanently maimed, traumatised, buried beneath rubble, orphaned, disappeared.

Last week the Biden administration claimed that the three-phase ceasefire plan was 90 per cent agreed by Hamas and Israel and that the final 10 per cent should be sorted shortly.However, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied this claim while repeatedly stating he is de

The unnecessary deaths of six Israeli hostages, Israel says by shots to the head by Hamas fighters late last week,has been blamed primarily on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu by bitter hostage families and angry members of the public.

During the Democratic party’s convention in Chicago, candidate Kamala Harris did not budge from the Biden line on Israel/Palestine. She had little choice.

Israel's devastating Gaza war and brutal crackdown on Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have shown that there can be no end to the Arab-Israeli conflict unless the two-state solution is adopted and implemented urgently and fully.

Last Monday marked the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions which form the foundation of international humanitarian law.