Lessons from Israel

Australia can learn valuable lessons from Israel in terms of civil preparedness to improve resilience against threats and disasters.

Protecting Israel

Israel has dominated Iran in recent days, destroying swathes of Iran’s military capacity as well as decimating its nuclear programme. Iran’s retaliation – based on raining down missiles on Israeli cities – has also fallen short thanks to Israel’s sophisticated and well-organised defence systems.

Israel will forever shine bright

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered this defiant speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2024, underlining Israel’s determination to defend itself from those who aim only to destroy it.

The new antisemitism

A new book outlines how Israel’s action to defend itself against terrorist groups determined to destroy it has rekindled a broader swathe of anti-semitism across the world.

Boycott the boycott of Israeli universities

Universities across the world are facing pressure to cut ties with Israeli institutions over the war in Gaza, but these calls misunderstand the current conflict and are part of a wider campaign to undermine Israel’s right to defend itself, and even exist.

The ugly truth of anti-Zionism

The protests against Israel’s war on Hamas following the terrorist attack of October 2023 are all too often a thin veneer over the underlying wish to wipe Israel from the map and destroy the Jewish people.

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.

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.

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.