Israel

children hold flags in the rubble of a building

Israel and the Palestinians celebrate a ceasefire — but will anything change?

24 May 2021

There seems to be no interest in reviving a peace process that has been effectively moribund since the Clinton administration in the late 1990s.

houses in the city of victoria the capital of seychelles

COVID is surging in the world's most vaccinated country. Why?

20 May 2021

What does the Seychelles experience tell us about variants, vaccine efficacy and herd immunity?

a palestinian women walks past the rubble of a building

With diplomacy all but abandoned, Israel and the Palestinians are teetering on another war

17 May 2021

The two sides need the international community to help them end the fighting, but the Biden administration has so far been reluctant to get involved.

US President Donald Trump at the Wailing Wall in Israel

Can peace in the Middle East be achieved after another Israeli election?

02 Mar 2020

UNSW’s Dr Anthony Billingsley says the timing of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan is an attempt to boost Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity in the lead-up to the March 2 elections.

Here we go again – Israel and Hamas resume their war

18 Jul 2014

International attention must focus on the civilians who are suffering on both sides of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, writes Anthony Billingsley.

Israel's policies 'apartheid' claims visiting academic

27 Mar 2009

A visiting Israeli academic has told a packed lecture at UNSW that Israel is practising "apartheid" and will never accept a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine problem.