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The Fightback Hits the Cities

The Fightback Hits the Cities

22nd May 2021 I have been commenting that this rebellion is unlike previous ones in Myanmar in that if it spread to the cities then the regime, even though it won’t lose, will be in trouble. Well, it is happening. Sanchaung township is a relatively well-off district and a

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UNRWA Textbooks Draw European Censure

UNRWA Textbooks Draw European Censure

Judy Maynard aijac.org.au In a step hailed as “unprecedented”, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been censured by the European Parliament (EP) for the use of school textbooks that contain hate speech and incitement to violence. The European

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As Trust between Israeli Jews and Arabs Reaches New Lows, Netanyahu Rises Again

As Trust between Israeli Jews and Arabs Reaches New Lows, Netanyahu Rises Again

Eli Gottlieb George Washington University Eli Gottlieb coaches senior executives who seek to pivot their careers or the organizations they lead; researches how people interpret data, justify beliefs and form identities; and write about how these topics impact everyday life. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the world’s capitals in mid-May 2021

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Why Were the Media Embedded with Hamas?

Why Were the Media Embedded with Hamas?

When the Israeli Defence Force obliterated a Hamas outpost, the left-media screeched that the Israelis had destroyed a building that housed media outlets. Which is true enough: the building held the offices of a number of media organisations. It was also a Hamas nest. Israel said it shared “smoking gun”

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The Fightback Continues and Picks up Pace

The Fightback Continues and Picks up Pace

20th May 2021 Demonstrators are leaving the cities and secretly making their way to the ethnic conflict zones. They are looking at two options after training – either to swell the ranks of the EAOs or to develop guerrilla actions within the cities. The Myanmar regime has objected to the provision

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Brain Farts Not Facts

Brain Farts Not Facts

A major calamity is certain to embolden screaming idealists to springboard off whatever unlikely explanation provides the opportunity to vent their horror at images of dead and mutilated children in the latest Middle Eastern conflict. “I cannot endorse this cruel war.” they piously warble, flapping around bleeding heart disinformation. In

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‘Hamas Hugger’ of the Day

‘Hamas Hugger’ of the Day

THOUSANDS of rockets have been fired into Israel at civilian targets by Palestinian terrorists, and this ‘Hamas Hugger’ – Labour MP Duncan Webb – calls Israeli retaliation (which is surgical, is aimed at military targets and warns civilians so that they have time to leave the buildings), disproportionate! Most of the women

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We Will Never Be Free

We Will Never Be Free

If some prognosticator had predicted, two years ago, that the world would be facing apparently unending global travel restrictions and government-enforced vaccines, we’d surely have laughed in their faces. More fool us. Because that’s exactly where we are, today – and there’s no end in sight. Not even

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Kiwis Will Pay for China’s Beef

Kiwis Will Pay for China’s Beef

China’s list of beef suppliers is growing thinner by the day. New Zealand consumers can expect to feel the pinch. When China embarked on its diplomatic and trade war on Australia – for the unforgivable sin of asking Beijing to start telling the truth about the Wuhan plague – Australian beef

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Provocation and Retaliation at Heart of Gaza War

Provocation and Retaliation at Heart of Gaza War

Jamie Hyams aijac.org.au Jamie Hyams Is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (Aijac). An edited version of this article was published in the Daily Telegraph – 18 May 2021 We feel we’ve seen this all before from Israel and Hamas. As they

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The Anti-Israel Bias of the ABC

The Anti-Israel Bias of the ABC

On those occasions where I punish myself by listening to ABC radio, it’s like entering a parallel dimension. It’s a Twilight Zone where socialism has never failed, Jacinda Ardern is the most competent leader in the history of the world, and Donald Trump competes with Scott Morrison to

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Why China Will Get Old before It Gets Rich

Why China Will Get Old before It Gets Rich

It seems appropriate that China’s animal totem is the panda: an animal that projects a cuddly image that belies its vicious bite. At the same time, it consigns itself to eventual oblivion, largely as a consequence of its own stupid dietary choices and its own reluctance to breed. The

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What Is China up To?

What Is China up To?

19th May 2021 It seems hard to believe but this is the 100th piece I have written on Myanmar. I have tried to give background and not just concentrate on the endless round of demonstrations, slaughter, brutality, pillage, looting, illegal detention, and torture. I have had a request to comment

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Maori Party Hug Terrorists

Maori Party Hug Terrorists

Major Maori leaders have thrown in their lot with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Anti-Zionist (‘I’m not an Anti-Semite’) political and social activists who apparently have a very strong following amongst New Zealand journalists and mainstream media news sites, as well as within the Greens and NZ Labour parties.

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