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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 29, 2025
What will happen to Australia — and New Zealand — once the superpower that has been followed into endless battles, the United States, finally unravels? COMMENTARY: By Michelle Pini, managing editor of Independent Australia With President Donald Trump now into his second week in the White House, horrific fires have continued to rage across Los ... <a title="Trump 2.0 chaos and destruction — what it means Down Under" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/29/trump-2-0-chaos-and-destruction-what-it-means-down-under/" aria-label="Read more about Trump 2.0 chaos and destruction — what it means Down Under">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2025
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! As we continue our discussion of President Jimmy Carter’s legacy, we look at his policies in the Middle East and North Africa, in particular, Israel and Palestine. On Thursday during the state funeral in Washington, President Carter’s former adviser Stuart Eizenstat praised Carter’s work on facilitating the ... <a title="Why Jimmy Carter’s opposition to Israeli apartheid failed to secure peace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/12/why-jimmy-carters-opposition-to-israeli-apartheid-failed-to-secure-peace/" aria-label="Read more about Why Jimmy Carter’s opposition to Israeli apartheid failed to secure peace">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly the destruction of the Syrian state. We are being told by the Western media that we should join Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and the Europeans in celebrating ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/13/eugene-doyle-the-dismemberment-of-syria-is-a-crime/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2024
Essay by Keith Rankin. A few days ago I watched a recording from Al Jazeera of Earthrise Systems Change. The news banner at the bottom of the screen told this story: “One person killed and at least five others injured in a car-ramming attack in central Tel Aviv. Medics say all victims in Tel Aviv ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Al Aqsa provocation and the media game ‘Israel says’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/10/keith-rankin-essay-al-aqsa-provocation-and-the-media-game-israel-says/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Al Aqsa provocation and the media game ‘Israel says’">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Antony Loewenstein The incoming Trump administration will bring a dangerous brew of Christian nationalism and anti-Palestinian racism Things can always get worse. Much worse. The Biden/Harris administration has bank-rolled and funded Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza, the sight of the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Israeli soldiers wilfully ... <a title="Israeli extremism has a new best friend in the White House" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/07/israeli-extremism-has-a-new-best-friend-in-the-white-house/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli extremism has a new best friend in the White House">Read more</a>
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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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December 2, 2024
Regional Conflicts - Political scientist Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning analyse how conflicts are expanding, arguably with warring sides taking an opportunity to take as much territory, while a 'Lame-Duck Window' exists in the United States.
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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 22, 2024
Essay by Keith Rankin. The occupation of the ‘Holy Lands’ by the Zionist state of Israel has an important precursor; Outremer. In particular the 1099 to 1187 version of the western outer kingdom, otherwise known as the Kingdom of Jerusalem. In the millennium year 1000 CE, the territory of Palestine was the home for various ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Outremer in Palestine: Lessons from the Twelfth Century" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/22/keith-rankin-essay-outremer-in-palestine-lessons-from-the-twelfth-century/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Outremer in Palestine: Lessons from the Twelfth Century">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Mick Hall A leading peace campaigner is calling Aotearoa New Zealand’s decision to stay away from a peace event in Nagasaki paying tribute to victims of the Japanese city’s 1945 nuclear bombing “outrageous”. Former trade union leader Robert Reid said New Zealand could have acted as a strong independent Pacific voice by attending today’s ... <a title="Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/advocate-slams-nz-snub-of-nagasaki-peace-tribute-as-outrageous/" aria-label="Read more about Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’">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>
