February 6, 2012 - News & Politics - 
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A good op-ed from James Zoby in HuffPo: “Better than threats, which only serve to embolden Iran, I would suggest a combination of direct engagement (which has been tried too little), continued targeted sanctions (which are having a real impact) and a bit of ridicule.”
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January 8, 2012 - News & Politics - 0
The US Navy ship, the very one the Iranian defence minister had been taunting and threatening all week, has saved a dozen Iranian fishermen from pirates. This would have to be one of the more bizarre incidents I’ve ever heard. Not even those with the wildest of imaginations could have dreamt up such a story.
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December 7, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
Very interesting findings on attitudes of Jewish and non-Jewish Israelis from a Brookings Institute poll. Most notably how Arab-Israelis perceive the level of discrimination they suffer within Green line Israel, on how Jewish Israelis see the Iranian nuclear threat, and, most pertinently, that two-thirds of Jewish Israeli think their government should be doing more to get a deal done with the Palestinians.
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December 1, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
Donald Trump is tweeting some bizarre things about Obama and Iran.
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November 30, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
Is the poverty crisis in Israel “at least as dangerous as the nuclear threat from Iran”, as one Israeli organisation claimed? I don’t know, but it’s not far off, I don’t think. Israeli society cannot truly grow and be prosperous — economically, in attempting to get peace with its neighbours, etc. — if it leaves so many behind.
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November 24, 2011 - News & Politics - 1
In today’s Age: “AUSTRALIA’S Jewish community must stop slavishly following the Israeli government line, which is compromising the most essential values of democracy, influential Israeli journalist David Landau said yesterday.” With all the shtick in Israel right now, with curbs on freedom of expression and democracy, and the continued occupation, and with some in the community unwilling to face the music, this message is a timely and poignant one.
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September 22, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
Is Israel about to attack Iranian nuclear sites? Bibi sure wants to. Everything points to Ehud Barak wanting to as well. “No leader has either the moral authority or the strategic possibility of endangering tens of thousands of citizens before doing everything possible to make Israel beloved of the West. That is how Yitzhak Rabin made strategic decisions…”
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August 20, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
PBS’s “Tehran Bureau” posts an opinion piece from Tehran-based Afrooz Mahdavi, who believes there are strong signs to support this: According to the officer, who insisted on anonymity, forces loyal to Ahmadinejad have allegedly been secretly negotiating political and military cooperation with foreign states that are Iran’s nominal enemies. According to the Revolutionary Guard officer, one such state — a NATO member — was in the final stages of reaching [...]
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August 19, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
From the Guardian: Tehran city council has named a street after an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, a local newspaper has reported. The report in the Hamshahri, a daily affiliated with Tehran’s authorities, said the council has named the street Rachel Aliene Corrie. It said the sign would be placed in the city centre, but did not [...]
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May 6, 2011 - News & Politics - 2
Over in Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in quite a bitter power with the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khameni. The Guardian now reports, via an Iranian news agency, that Khameni has hit back: Close allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Several people said [...]
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