Tag: Israel
Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media...
Pacific Media Watch
Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including...
US rejects Hamas, UNRWA roles in Gaza as Israeli aid siege...
Pacific Media Watch
United States top diplomat Marco Rubio says the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) “is not going to play any role”...
PSNA slams Israeli politician over ‘sneaking into NZ’ during Pacific friendship...
Asia Pacific Report
A leading Palestine solidarity and advocacy group in New Zealand has accused an Israeli cabinet minister of "sneaking" into the country this...
PSNA slams NZ defence minister Collins over genocide ‘dog-whistling’
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand's major Palestine advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned Defence Minister Judith Collins for "dog-whistling to her...
The Pukpuk Treaty and the future of Papua New Guinea-Australia relations
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The signing of the Papua New Guinea-Australia Mutual Defence Treaty -- officially known as the Pukpuk Treaty...
Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames
So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant...
Saige England: Why I have spent a decade proudly standing with...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
I unequivocally support Irish author Sally Rooney with all my heart and soul. The author risks imprisonment for donating funds from...
Gaza: Empty rhetoric from New Zealand and other Western countries
In a joint statement, more than two dozen Western countries, including New Zealand, have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza....
Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not...
ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle
Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel Aviv or Tehran), I am personally...
The ‘Godfather of Human Rights’ Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and...
By Richard Larsen, RNZ News producer -- 30' with Guyon Espiner
The former head of Human Rights Watch -- and son of a Holocaust survivor...
Iran accuses US over ‘torpedoed diplomacy’ – passes bill to halt...
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem
Kia ora koutou,
I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across...
Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders discuss Middle East conflict before ceasefire
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says the Middle East conflict was one of the discussions of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG)...
Ramzy Baroud: The fallout – winners and losers from the Israeli...
COMMENTARY: By Ramzy Baroud, editor of The Palestinian Chronicle
The conflict between Israel and Iran over the past 12 days has redefined the regional chessboard....
Another Iraq? Military expert warns US has no real plan if...
Democracy Now!
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, held talks with France, Germany, and the United Kingdom yesterday in Geneva as Israel’s attacks on Iran entered...
Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme
Asia Pacific Report
A leading Middle East analyst has pushed back against US President Donald Trump's dismissal of the conclusion of his own national intelligence...
Israel blocks Gaza aid organisations’ access to fuel, hospitals running out
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem
Kia ora koutou,
I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across...
Eugene Doyle: How centrifugal forces have been unleashed in Iran
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The surprise US-Israeli attack on Iran is literally and figuratively designed to unleash centrifugal forces in the Islamic Republic.
Two nuclear powers...
A war on diplomacy itself – Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran
ANALYSIS: By Joe Hendren
Had Israel not launched its unprovoked attack on Iran on Friday night, in direct violation of the UN Charter, Iran would...
Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Ōtautahi and Ava Mulla in Cairo
Hope for freedom for Palestinians remains high among a group of trauma-struck New...
Why Israel’s shock and awe has proven its power but lost...
COMMENTARY: By Antony Loewenstein in Middle East Eye
War is good for business and geopolitical posturing.
Before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington in...
Is genocide the new normal? Could Israel and the US destroy...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
"Just do it, before it is too late," US President Donald Trump said.
The Western media described Trump’s and Israeli Prime Minister...
Editor calls for NZ to immediately expel Israeli envoy for unprovoked...
EDITORIAL: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
The madness has begun.
We should have suspected something when the cloud strike shut down occurred.
Israeli Prime...



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