Here’s an X interaction I received today that perfectly summarises how Hamas and its backers came close to pulling off their long sought after stratagem of dividing the West from Israel with their attack of October 2023.
Work from home found its stride during the first years of the current global Covid-19 pandemic. Many workplaces still do not mandate a full return to the office. Some used that time to downsize their leases and therefore can no longer house a full employee cohort anyway. The smart ones realised that the airborne virus would still linger unabated and made changes to keep their operations running.
Tagged: Human Resources, Psychology, Victoria, Work From Home
The mud had settled after yesterday’s Pro-Hamas rally in the rain, where hardcore adherents including a number of former Far Left politicians, regular anti-Israel media mouthpieces and Julian Assange walked Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Tagged: Hamas, Palestine, Protest, Simon Banks, Sydney Harbour Bridge
Observers of the Middle East noted the ludicrousness of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s idea for a Palestinian state that he announced this week. He said that if Hamas releases Israel’s hostages still in captivity going on two years now, his UK will not declare a Palestinian State next month, but if they keep those hostages in their Gaza cells until September, his UK will declare a State of Palestine unequivocally.
That fiasco is only matched by my surprise last year at the official antisemitic rhetoric of the Republic of Ireland in support of Hamas, leading to the closure of the Israeli embassy in Dublin.
Tagged: Keir Starmer, Northern Ireland, Palestine
International diplomacy is a game. When we remember that war is a tool of politics, and diplomacy is the language of politics we get a better understanding of how peace comes through chaos.
In 1981 Israel bombed Iraq’s nuclear rector at Osirak ending its nuclear ambitions. In 2007 Israel bombed Syria’s nuclear reactor at Al Kibar ending its nuclear ambitions. In 2010 Israel and the United States destroyed the Iranian centrifuges at Natanz with a computer virus crippling its nuclear ambitions.
No protests. Why?
On June 7 Australian time, a day later than Europe, I started watching the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers for what must be my fifth tour. It tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division during World War Two: from its jump into Normandy on D-Day June 6 1944, to the end of the war in Europe less than a year later. It’s a dramatic masterpiece that rends my heart every time.
Tagged: Band of Brothers, Covid-19, Gaza, History, WW2
Yesterday the Sydney Morning Herald ran a headline, “‘The time is right’: Labor luminary calls for Netanyahu sanctions, Palestine statehood”. The Labor luminary was Australia’s former foreign minister of the 1990s, Gareth Evans. In it journalist Matthew Knott did a good job explaining Evans’ crusade but got one point wrong. It read:
Tagged: Australia, Gareth Evans, Palestine, Palestinianism, Penny Wong
Last week, around May 14 2025, word broke of Covid-19 numbers on the rise in Southeast Asia. It told observers what most knew: the five-year-old pandemic wasn’t just still underway, it was about to get worse and it promised a new ride.
Tagged: Australia, China, Covid-19, Epidemic, Work From Home
If there’s a socialist geopolitical cabal in motion these days, it’s the left wing governments of the United Kingdom, France and Canada. They form the first tier of an opposition to Israel outside the Arab World.
The second tier includes their favourite sycophant Australia, whose foreign policy barely downplays Marxism, and the antisemitic socialist governments of Ireland, Spain and the Nordic bloc.
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