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Middle East Eye
5 hours ago
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Israel is open to ending war in Gaza: Haaretz
The Israeli media outlet Haaretz is quoting an Israeli official, who has been involved in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, as saying that Israel is – for the first time- open to the possibility of ending the war in Gaza during its talks with Hamas. "This negotiation is different than the ones that brought about the previous deals," the official told Haaretz. He added: "While the previous deals dealt with the release of the hostages and the release of murderers, this deal touches on the issue of ending the war. Therefore, everything is interconnected. This is a very complex deal'. According to the official, "this negotiation touches on issues of how the war will end or continue, what will happen in Gaza and how all the hostages will be returned. Within the framework of the deal, there is an entire clause that deals with issues to be discussed regarding the end of the war. Both parties can add topics, and they will be discussed within the 60-day cease-fire'.
Middle East Eye
a day ago
- Middle East Eye
West Bank: Israeli soldiers shoot 14-year-old and prevent medical assistance reaching him
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a teenage boy in Yabad, a village in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Friday. Israeli soldiers gunned down 14-year-old Amro Kabah on the street, and prevented ambulances from providing him with medical treatment, Haaretz reported citing local witnesses. Kabah's father tried to reach him, but soldiers violently assaulted and arrested him, witnesses added. The arrest of Kabah's father meant that the Red Crescent was able to swoop in and take Kabah to the hospital, but he was pronounced dead. The Israeli military have now sealed the main entrance to Yabad with concrete blocks.
Sydney Morning Herald
2 days ago
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
To defend our democracy, PM must disavow and abandon Segal report
The eminent Jewish historian, the late Tony Judt, put it this way in the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2006: 'When Israel breaks international law in the occupied territories, when Israel publicly humiliates the subject populations whose land it has seized – but then responds to its critics with loud cries of 'antisemitism' – it is in effect saying that these acts are not Israeli acts, they are Jewish acts: The occupation is not an Israeli occupation, it is a Jewish occupation, and if you don't like these things it is because you don't like Jews. 'In many parts of the world this is in danger of becoming a self-fulfilling assertion: Israel's reckless behaviour and insistent identification of all criticism with antisemitism is now the leading source of anti-Jewish sentiment in Western Europe and much of Asia.' Anyone repeating Judt's words would risk no longer being able to speak in mainstream Australia because they would have been branded as antisemitic. Similarly, a university or writers' festival or public broadcaster could lose its funding for hosting Ehud Olmert, Israel's former prime minister, who last week compared plans for a 'humanitarian city' to be built in Rafah to 'a concentration camp', making him yet another antisemite according to the Segal report. Pointedly, Olmert said, 'Attitudes inside Israel might start to shift only when Israelis started to feel the burden of international pressure.' In other words, leading Israelis are saying criticism of Israel can be helpful, rather than antisemitic. Yet, even by me doing no more than quoting word-for-word arguments made by globally distinguished Jews, could it be that I meet the Segal report's criteria for antisemitism? Would I be blacklisted for repeating what can be said in Israel about Israel but cannot be said in Australia? At the same time, in an Australia where protest is being increasingly criminalised, the Segal report creates an attractive template that could be broadened to silence dissenting voices that question the state's policies on other matters such as immigration, climate and environment. Loading That the ABC and SBS could be censored on the basis of 'monitoring' by Jillian Segal, a power she recommends she be given as the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, raises the unedifying vision of our public broadcasters being policed from the Segal family lounge room. No matter how much Segal seeks to now distance herself from her husband's political choices, that his family trust is a leading donor to Advance – a far-right lobby group which advocates anti-Palestinian, anti-immigrant positions, publishes racist cartoons and promotes the lie that climate change is a hoax – doesn't help engender in the Australian public a sense of political innocence about her report. It is hard to see how this helps a Jewish community that feels threatened, attacked and misunderstood. Could it be that the Segal report's only contribution to the necessary battle against antisemitism will be to fuel the growth of the antisemitism it is meant to combat? If the ironies are endless, the dangers are profound. Loading It is not simply that these things are absurd, it is that they are a threat to us as a democratic people. That the prime minister has unwisely put himself in a position where he now must disavow something he previously seemed to support is unfortunate. But disavow and abandon it he must. Antisemitism is real and, as is all racism, despicable. The federal government is right to do all it can within existing laws to act against the perpetrators of recent antisemitic outrages. Earlier this month, the Federal Court found Wissam Haddad guilty of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act with online posts that were ' fundamentally racist and antisemitic ' but ruled that criticism of Israel, Zionism and the Israel Defence Forces was not antisemitic. It is wrong to go beyond our laws in new ways that would damage Australian democracy and seem to only serve the interests of another nation that finds its actions the subject of global opprobrium. The example of the USA shows where forgetting what is at stake leads. Just because the most powerful in our country have endorsed this report does not mean we should agree with it. Just because it stifles criticism of another country does not make Australia better nor Jews safer. Nor, if we follow the logic of Ehud Olmert, does it even help Israel. As the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi wrote, 'we too are so dazzled by power and prestige as to forget our own essential fragility. Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death and that close by the train is waiting.' The lessons of the ghetto are not the exclusive property of Israel but of all humanity. In every human heart as well as the lover and the liberator, there exists the oppressor and the murderer. And no nation-state, no matter the history of its people, has the right to mass murder and then expect of other peoples that they not speak of it. If we agree to that, if we forget our own essential fragility, we become complicit in the crime and the same evil raining down on the corpse-ridden sands of Gaza begins to poison us as well.
The Age
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Age
To defend our democracy, PM must disavow and abandon Segal report
The eminent Jewish historian, the late Tony Judt, put it this way in the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2006: 'When Israel breaks international law in the occupied territories, when Israel publicly humiliates the subject populations whose land it has seized – but then responds to its critics with loud cries of 'antisemitism' – it is in effect saying that these acts are not Israeli acts, they are Jewish acts: The occupation is not an Israeli occupation, it is a Jewish occupation, and if you don't like these things it is because you don't like Jews. 'In many parts of the world this is in danger of becoming a self-fulfilling assertion: Israel's reckless behaviour and insistent identification of all criticism with antisemitism is now the leading source of anti-Jewish sentiment in Western Europe and much of Asia.' Anyone repeating Judt's words would risk no longer being able to speak in mainstream Australia because they would have been branded as antisemitic. Similarly, a university or writers' festival or public broadcaster could lose its funding for hosting Ehud Olmert, Israel's former prime minister, who last week compared plans for a 'humanitarian city' to be built in Rafah to 'a concentration camp', making him yet another antisemite according to the Segal report. Pointedly, Olmert said, 'Attitudes inside Israel might start to shift only when Israelis started to feel the burden of international pressure.' In other words, leading Israelis are saying criticism of Israel can be helpful, rather than antisemitic. Yet, even by me doing no more than quoting word-for-word arguments made by globally distinguished Jews, could it be that I meet the Segal report's criteria for antisemitism? Would I be blacklisted for repeating what can be said in Israel about Israel but cannot be said in Australia? At the same time, in an Australia where protest is being increasingly criminalised, the Segal report creates an attractive template that could be broadened to silence dissenting voices that question the state's policies on other matters such as immigration, climate and environment. Loading That the ABC and SBS could be censored on the basis of 'monitoring' by Jillian Segal, a power she recommends she be given as the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, raises the unedifying vision of our public broadcasters being policed from the Segal family lounge room. No matter how much Segal seeks to now distance herself from her husband's political choices, that his family trust is a leading donor to Advance – a far-right lobby group which advocates anti-Palestinian, anti-immigrant positions, publishes racist cartoons and promotes the lie that climate change is a hoax – doesn't help engender in the Australian public a sense of political innocence about her report. It is hard to see how this helps a Jewish community that feels threatened, attacked and misunderstood. Could it be that the Segal report's only contribution to the necessary battle against antisemitism will be to fuel the growth of the antisemitism it is meant to combat? If the ironies are endless, the dangers are profound. Loading It is not simply that these things are absurd, it is that they are a threat to us as a democratic people. That the prime minister has unwisely put himself in a position where he now must disavow something he previously seemed to support is unfortunate. But disavow and abandon it he must. Antisemitism is real and, as is all racism, despicable. The federal government is right to do all it can within existing laws to act against the perpetrators of recent antisemitic outrages. Earlier this month, the Federal Court found Wissam Haddad guilty of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act with online posts that were ' fundamentally racist and antisemitic ' but ruled that criticism of Israel, Zionism and the Israel Defence Forces was not antisemitic. It is wrong to go beyond our laws in new ways that would damage Australian democracy and seem to only serve the interests of another nation that finds its actions the subject of global opprobrium. The example of the USA shows where forgetting what is at stake leads. Just because the most powerful in our country have endorsed this report does not mean we should agree with it. Just because it stifles criticism of another country does not make Australia better nor Jews safer. Nor, if we follow the logic of Ehud Olmert, does it even help Israel. As the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi wrote, 'we too are so dazzled by power and prestige as to forget our own essential fragility. Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death and that close by the train is waiting.' The lessons of the ghetto are not the exclusive property of Israel but of all humanity. In every human heart as well as the lover and the liberator, there exists the oppressor and the murderer. And no nation-state, no matter the history of its people, has the right to mass murder and then expect of other peoples that they not speak of it. If we agree to that, if we forget our own essential fragility, we become complicit in the crime and the same evil raining down on the corpse-ridden sands of Gaza begins to poison us as well.
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First Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- First Post
West Asia News Live: Israel campaigns to deter citizens from spying for Iran; Rubio says Syria clashes ending soon
July 17, 2025, 06:45:07 (IST) Whatsapp Facebook Twitter Israel to assume municipal powers in Hebron to build structure at Tomb of the Patriarchs The Israeli government plans to take over municipal powers from the Hebron City Hall to construct a shade structure at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a site revered by both Jews and Muslims, according to a report in Haaretz. The move follows a warning from the head of Israel's Coordination Administration in Hebron to the city's governor. The action pertains to the H2 area of Hebron, which is under Israeli security control and contains the holy site, effectively overriding the Palestinian municipality's authority in this matter.
