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December 6, 2024
Keith Rankin Analysis. I recently read the Auckland Library copy of the 1986 book Prophecy and politics: militant evangelists on the road to nuclear war, by Grace Halsell (1923-2000). Before she died, she also published (in 1999) Forcing God’s Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture—and Destruction of Planet Earth. A revised 2003 edition ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Israel, Syria, and the Map of the ‘Millennium’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/keith-rankin-analysis-israel-syria-and-the-map-of-the-millennium/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Israel, Syria, and the Map of the ‘Millennium’">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Esteemed Israeli intellectual Shlomo Sand published The Invention of the Jewish People in 2008 with a new edition in 2020. He sees the popular concept of peoples – popular in the late 19th century (when we were obsessed with ‘race’) and again in the last decade or so when we have ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Ancient Ancestry, Israel and Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/25/keith-rankin-analysis-ancient-ancestry-israel-and-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Ancient Ancestry, Israel and Palestine">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, the impulse of the Palestinians has not been about violence or revenge. The impulse remains the return to normal and natural life, writes Ilan Pappé. ANALYSIS: By Ilan Pappé “When we revolt, it’s not for a particular culture. We ... <a title="Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all violence – Zionism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/ilan-pappe-to-end-gaza-genocide-uproot-the-source-of-all-violence-zionism/" aria-label="Read more about Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all violence – Zionism">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
RNZ News The coalition government is telling New Zealanders in Iran and Lebanon to leave immediately as tensions rise in the Middle East. “The New Zealand government urges New Zealanders in Lebanon and Iran to leave now while options remain available,” Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said in a social media post today. “We also ... <a title="NZ tells citizens to leave Iran and Lebanon now ‘while options remain’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/nz-tells-citizens-to-leave-iran-and-lebanon-now-while-options-remain/" aria-label="Read more about NZ tells citizens to leave Iran and Lebanon now ‘while options remain’">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style assassination and extrajudicial executions” are designed to “inflame the whole region”, reports Al Jazeera. The killings of the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad ... <a title="Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/03/israel-accused-of-being-a-rogue-state-trying-to-destabilise-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
The War on Gaza will be etched in the memories of generations to come — the brutality of Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack, and the ferocity of Israel’s retaliation. In this Four Corners investigative report, The Forever War, broadcast in Australia last night, ABC’s global affairs editor John Lyons asks the tough questions — challenging ... <a title="‘The Forever War’ – ABC Four Corners reports on the assault on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/the-forever-war-abc-four-corners-reports-on-the-assault-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The Forever War’ – ABC Four Corners reports on the assault on Gaza">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
RNZ News With an “appalling” loss of life unfolding in Gaza, it’s essential Israel halts plans for an assault on the city of Rafah, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says. The government has hardened its position towards Israel’s actions in Gaza, saying air strikes on the southern city of Rafah should stop and Israel should not ... <a title="Israeli offensive in Rafah ‘not a way forward’ for Gaza, says NZ’s Luxon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/israeli-offensive-in-rafah-not-a-way-forward-for-gaza-says-nzs-luxon/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli offensive in Rafah ‘not a way forward’ for Gaza, says NZ’s Luxon">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2024
RNZ News An activist organisation is accusing the Aotearoa New Zealand police of brutality after arrests were made at a pro-Palestine protest in Lyttelton today. About 60 people took part in the protest at Lyttelton Port this morning, and police said four people were arrested about 1pm after blocking traffic. Protesters had blocked a tunnel ... <a title="NZ police accused of aggression after arrests at pro-Palestine protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/06/nz-police-accused-of-aggression-after-arrests-at-pro-palestine-protest/" aria-label="Read more about NZ police accused of aggression after arrests at pro-Palestine protest">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The incoming chair of the ABC, Kim Williams, must immediately move to restore the reputation of Australia’s national broadcaster by addressing concerns about the impact of external pressures on editorial decision making, says the media union. The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, the union representing journalists at the ABC, today called on ... <a title="New ABC chair must restore reputation for independence, says MEAA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/24/new-abc-chair-must-restore-reputation-for-independence-says-meaa/" aria-label="Read more about New ABC chair must restore reputation for independence, says MEAA">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who has been documenting the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip, has left the enclave for Qatar and gave his first interview there with the Doha-based Al Jazeera global news channel. Azaiza announced on Instagram yesterday that he was leaving the besieged enclave before boarding a ... <a title="Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza evacuates from Gaza – ‘thank you . . . you’ll return to a free Palestine’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/24/photojournalist-motaz-azaiza-evacuates-from-gaza-thank-you-youll-return-to-a-free-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza evacuates from Gaza – ‘thank you . . . you’ll return to a free Palestine’">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) – based in The Hague, in The Netherlands – is being asked by South Africa if the 100-day (so far) slaughter by the Government of Israel in Gaza constitutes a ‘genocide’. Thus ‘genocide’ is presented as a binary concept, in a context where there is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Genocide as a Concept: Binary or Analogue?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/keith-rankin-analysis-genocide-as-a-concept-binary-or-analogue/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Genocide as a Concept: Binary or Analogue?">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2024
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, assesses Israeli defence submitted at the ICJ over South Africa’s genocide allegations. Image: AJ Pacific Media Watch Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says Israel’s legal team “started off weak” but made a few strong points near the end. Bishara said the lawyers’ efforts at the genocide ... <a title="Israel’s ‘illogical’ legal defence off to weak start, says analyst Bishara" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/13/israels-illogical-legal-defence-off-to-weak-start-says-analyst-bishara/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s ‘illogical’ legal defence off to weak start, says analyst Bishara">Read more</a>
