Peace depends on defeating Hamas

A truce that leaves Hamas in control of Gaza will not be a permanent solution but merely a temporary pause in which Gazans remain controlled by a terrorist group that will abuse civilian infrastructure and resources to rebuild, rearm and return to its stated objective of destroying Israel.

Better health by 2030

The world needs more and better skilled health workers to attain the United Nation’s sustainable development targets and continue to foster global health beyond 2030.

Hunting down Hamas

Israel’s armed forces are tightening the noose around Hamas in Gaza, but urban warfare is always slow and bloody, and clearing the terrorists’ tunnels will be a difficult job.

No middle way in the Middle East

The current horrors in the Middle East were precipitated by a terrorist attack whose vicious cruelty explains why Israel fights so hard to survive – if it ever lost a war, the Israelis would lose everything, including their lives.

The only solution is an Israeli victory

Well meaning people are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, but the reality of the situation is that Israel must crush the terrorists who are determined to destroy it, or it will itself be destroyed.

What now for the U.N.?

It is no secret that the UN needs reform. Nearly eight decades on, and with great power competition having returned, the UN is bleeding relevance.

A time for war

“This is a turning point, a turning point for leaders and nations. It is time for all of us to decide if we are willing to fight for a future of hope and promise; or surrender to tyranny and terror.”

Stand with Israel

Israel has been forced to fight for its existence from the start, and must stand up for itself to survive given the reluctance of the Western world to defend it. The appalling terrorist attack by Hamas, in which 1,400 men, women and children were slaughtered and 200 hostages were taken, has drawn its inevitable response, but Israel’s critics see the current crisis as just another excuse to condemn it.

Why antisemitism shifted left

Mass demonstrations against Israel are motivated by political ideology as well as ethnic heritage, with a broad swathe of ‘progressives’ on the left in the USA, Australia and other western nations spouting the poisonous anti-semetic tropes which were once the preserve of the far-right.

Lessons from Finland

Finland has suffered centuries of bullying and invasion at the hands of Russia, and in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has placed itself firmly in the democratic camp by joining NATO.

Beating the SDG cash crunch

Despite the challenges facing the Indo-Pacific, integrated regional cooperation and increased financing can help the region accelerate the move to a decarbonised world and towards the achievement of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Israel goes in

Israeli ground forces are poised to enter the Gaza strip to carry out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order to ‘crush and destroy Hamas’ after the terrorist group murdered over 1,200 Israeli civilians in a brutal, unprovoked attack.