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March 15, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state. We are now in the opening days of what may be the final, decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the US from the Arab lands ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States along with Iran?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/15/eugene-doyle-will-israel-and-the-us-wreck-the-gulf-states-along-with-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States along with Iran?">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
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 Zealanders in Cairo. In spite of extensive planning, the Global March To Gaza (GMTG) delegation of about 4000 international aid volunteers was thwarted in its mission to walk from Cairo ... <a title="Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/egyptian-crackdown-on-gaza-blockade-busters-but-kiwi-activists-vow-to-defeat-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Big Picture Podcast host, New Zealand-Egyptian journalist and author Mohamed Hassan, interviews Middle East Eye editor-in-chief David Hearst about the rapidly unfolding war between Israel and Iran, why the West supports it, and what it threatens to unleash on the global order. What does Israel really want to achieve, what options ... <a title="Israel-Iran war ‘more dangerous than we imagine’, says Middle East Eye editor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/18/israel-iran-war-more-dangerous-than-we-imagine-says-middle-east-eye-editor/" aria-label="Read more about Israel-Iran war ‘more dangerous than we imagine’, says Middle East Eye editor">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Labour MP for Te Atatu Phil Twyford criticised the New Zealand government today for failing to take stronger action against Israel over its genocide and starvation strategy in Gaza, saying that NZ should implement comprehensive sanctions and recognise Palestine. Speaking at a rally in Henderson organised by the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa ... <a title="Twyford condemns weak action by NZ over Israel’s ‘ruthless’ apartheid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/14/twyford-condemns-weak-action-by-nz-over-israels-ruthless-apartheid/" aria-label="Read more about Twyford condemns weak action by NZ over Israel’s ‘ruthless’ apartheid">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
As Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to resume war, Hamas outlines widespread Israeli ceasefire violations in document sent to the mediators. By Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Dropsite News Hamas officials submitted a two-page report to mediators yesterday listing a wide range of Israeli violations of the Gaza ceasefire since the agreement went into effect ... <a title="Hamas report to mediators accuses Israel of pervasive Gaza ceasefire violations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/hamas-report-to-mediators-accuses-israel-of-pervasive-gaza-ceasefire-violations/" aria-label="Read more about Hamas report to mediators accuses Israel of pervasive Gaza ceasefire violations">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Sawsan Madina I watched US President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march ... <a title="Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/trumps-riviera-plan-for-gaza-heralds-an-age-of-naked-fascism/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2025
The Gaza ceasefire deal proves that Israeli politics can only survive if it’s engaged in perpetual war. US President Donald Trump has unsettled Arab leaders with his obscene suggestion that Egypt and Jordan absorb Palestinians from Gaza. Both Egypt and Jordan have stated that this is a non-starter and will not happen. Israeli extremists have ... <a title="As Donald Trump plays God in Gaza, Israel acts like spoiled brat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/01/as-donald-trump-plays-god-in-gaza-israel-acts-like-spoiled-brat/" aria-label="Read more about As Donald Trump plays God in Gaza, Israel acts like spoiled brat">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2025
Asia Pacific Report UN President Donald Trump’s idea of mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza to Jordan and Egypt has been dismissed by analysts as unaccepable “ethnic cleansing” and rejected by the governments of both neigbouring countries. Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani, a nonresident research fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and ... <a title="Trump’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ Gaza idea dismissed by analysts – rejected by Jordan, Egypt on ‘Day of Return’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/28/trumps-ethnic-cleansing-gaza-idea-dismissed-by-analysts-rejected-by-jordan-egypt-on-day-of-return/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ Gaza idea dismissed by analysts – rejected by Jordan, Egypt on ‘Day of Return’">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Aotearoa chapter of the Women’s International league for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has appealed to the New Zealand government to call out Israel over the “cruel and barbaric use of force” in Gaza and demand a permanent ceasefire. The league’s open letter was sent to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Minister ... <a title="End this ‘cruel, barbaric use of force’ on Gaza – WILPF plea to NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/end-this-cruel-barbaric-use-of-force-on-gaza-wilpf-plea-to-nz/" aria-label="Read more about End this ‘cruel, barbaric use of force’ on Gaza – WILPF plea to NZ">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2024
By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter The New Zealand government is being urged to create a special humanitarian visa for Palestinians in Gaza with ties to this country. More than 30 organisations — including World Vision, Save the Children and Greenpeace — have sent an open letter to ministers, calling on them to step ... <a title="NZ government urged to help evacuate Palestinians from war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/21/nz-government-urged-to-help-evacuate-palestinians-from-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ government urged to help evacuate Palestinians from war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2023
Gaza Israel Conflict - In this episode, Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning examine this most grave situation from a geopolitical vantage point. It may appear as dispassionate, and as so even disturbing, but we will take this approach in an attempt to aide an understanding of why this is happening in Gaza and why it is happening now.
