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August 2, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone President Biden — if you feel like pretending Biden is still serving as President and still making the decisions in the White House — has pledged to support Israel against any retaliations for its recent assassination spree in Iran and Lebanon which killed high-profile officials from Hamas and Hezbollah. A White House statement asserts that ... <a title="Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing its worst aggressor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/promoting-peace-and-stability-in-the-middle-east-by-unconditionally-backing-its-worst-aggressor/" aria-label="Read more about Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing its worst aggressor">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on yesterday is part of Tel Aviv’s overall desperate search for a wider conflict. It is a criminal act that reeks of desperation. Almost immediately after the start of the Gaza war on October 7, Israel hoped to ... <a title="Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/why-israel-assassinated-haniyeh-desperation-over-gaza-failure/" aria-label="Read more about Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2024
The LIVE Recording of A View from Afar podcast will begin today at 12:45pm May 20, 2024 (NZST) which is Sunday evening, 8:30pm (USEST). Today, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will examine: The United States and how the world is engaging with it geopolitically. Specifically, we will analyse what has changed in this regard ... <a title="LIVE RECORDING: A View from Afar – Is a second Trump Presidency Possible?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/20/live-recording-a-view-from-afar-is-a-second-trump-presidency-possible/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE RECORDING: A View from Afar – Is a second Trump Presidency Possible?">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2024
Opinion by Lynley Hood. Forty years on from my 1985 Fulbright Grant, my disquiet over the war in Gaza evoked some troubling questions. The answer to my first question – What is the primary purpose of the Fulbright Programme? – was on the Fulbright NZ website. It says: The Fulbright programme was established in 1946 ... <a title="Lynley Hood Opinion – Senator Fulbright must be spinning in his grave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/26/lynley-hood-opinion-senator-fulbright-must-be-spinning-in-his-grave/" aria-label="Read more about Lynley Hood Opinion – Senator Fulbright must be spinning in his grave">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2024
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller. New Zealand is reshaping its foreign policy via the Middle East. A decision to provide intelligence support for future US and UK airstrikes on Yemen is highly symbolic. The Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, announced the deployment of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) troops to support the US-led military response to the attacks ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller Analysis – New Zealand’s huge shift in the Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/25/geoffrey-miller-analysis-new-zealands-huge-shift-in-the-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller Analysis – New Zealand’s huge shift in the Middle East">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A group of foreign policy critics alarmed at the Aotearoa New Zealand government’s “undemocratic decision” to step up support for US-led strikes against Yemen have warned against “inflaming” the Red Sea maritime crisis. They have urgently called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza as they say the Israeli war that ... <a title="NZ foreign policy critics warn over ‘inflaming’ Red Sea crisis, call for Gaza ceasefire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/nz-foreign-policy-critics-warn-over-inflaming-red-sea-crisis-call-for-gaza-ceasefire/" aria-label="Read more about NZ foreign policy critics warn over ‘inflaming’ Red Sea crisis, call for Gaza ceasefire">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The US has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city of Sanaa. This comes a day after US and UK airstrikes on Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on Red Sea commercial vessels. For weeks Yemen’s Houthi forces have been ... <a title="Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into accepting the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/13/peace-doesnt-come-by-trying-to-bludgeon-the-middle-east-into-accepting-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into accepting the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Israeli authorities to end military pactices that “violate international law” with the deaths of civilians, including journalists. This came in the wake of seven journalists being killed by Israeli security forces in the space of a week — six in the ... <a title="RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/21/rsf-condemns-middle-east-bloody-week-with-seven-journalists-killed/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2023
By Selwyn Manning, editor of Evening Report As we prepared for this podcast, representatives of Arab states have presented a united front at the United Nations, criticising the UN Security Council of doing nothing to protect civilians from Israeli bombing and missile attacks on Gazan civilians and locations. Since then, the UN Security Council has ... <a title="When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning, Paul Buchanan assess the crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/20/when-all-the-worlds-failings-end-in-gaza-selwyn-manning-paul-buchanan-assess-the-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning, Paul Buchanan assess the crisis">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again been caught with its pants down. On this occasion its briefs were dangling from its ankles as well. Operation Al Aqsa Storm, as Hamas named its 7 October 2023 offensive ... <a title="Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in Gaza?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/11/operation-al-aqsa-storm-how-why-and-where-to-now-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in Gaza?">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The New Zealand government bears heavy responsibility for loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis in the latest fighting in Israel/Palestine and must revisit its policy, says the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair John Minto. “Whatever the eventual outcome of the Hamas attacks on Israel today [Saturday], the New Zealand ... <a title="Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy over brutal Israeli occupation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/palestine-solidarity-group-calls-on-nz-to-end-blind-eye-policy-over-brutal-israeli-occupation/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy over brutal Israeli occupation">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
COMMENTARY: By John Minto The last fortnight has seen a series of brutal, deliberately provocative Israeli attacks on Palestinian worshippers at Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Needless to say, Israel had no business interfering in Muslim worship at Al Aqsa, the third holiest shrine for Muslims ... <a title="John Minto: Israeli attacks on Al Aqsa mosque – and the failings of media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/john-minto-israeli-attacks-on-al-aqsa-mosque-and-the-failings-of-media/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: Israeli attacks on Al Aqsa mosque – and the failings of media">Read more</a>
