After more than 24 hours of letting the story run freely, Qatari mouthpiece Al Jazeera deleted the page featuring their former story, which accused Israeli soldiers of allegedly perpetrating rape against women during the IDF’s latest excursion against Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who barricaded themselves inside the former hospital-cum-terror headquarters at Shifa Hospital.
Israel is not perfect – but it is a beacon of religious freedom in a region where such freedom is rare. And it deserves to be judged by the standards of truth, not the shadow of historical prejudice.
March Against Antisemitism – 21 Dec 2025, Auckland – Dr David Cumin’s speech.
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The end goal of all of this, in Trump’s mind, is to make the Western Hemisphere as democratic and as economically sound as possible. Personally, I don’t have a problem with that.
The debate has become increasingly political and personal, with concerns raised about domestic policy settings that could affect New Zealand’s ‘premium’ food branding, including proposed genetic engineering reforms and environmental initiatives targeting agricultural emissions.
