A Mother’s War John Murrary, $24.95
THIS memoir is an example of the greys of moral challenge that occurred even within the blackness of the Holocaust…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 2004
64 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4
Israeli soldier arrested for shooting ISM member
LONDON — It’s not often that an Israeli soldier is arrested for using his weapon in the battle zone of the Gaza Strip…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →World View Idf Soldier Killed
JERUSALEM - An Israeli soldier was killed along the Israel-Lebanon border. The soldier was killed on Monday by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile fired…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Plibersek, Danby join forces to crack down on war crimes
PERPETRATORS of war crimes and crimes against humanity who have fled to Australia to avoid prosecution could face trial in their adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World Hamas vows to kidnap soldiers
JERUSALEM - Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin said in Gaza City last week that his movement is planning to kidnap IDF soldiers to exchange them for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Images of war Book Review Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag Hamish Hamilton, $29.95
THE little boy with his hands raised herded by Nazis. The bleeding bodies outside the Sbarro pizzaria. The crumbling twin towers…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Delivering the taste of Purim to Israeli soldiers
WHEN an IDF soldier stationed at Hebron or Gush Etzion receives a mishloach manot food basket this Purim, it's likely to come from an Australian family…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elite commander of Israel's elite Major-General Uri Bar-Lev has the authority to close Israel's borders if necessary. In Sydney last week, he told Aviva Bard about losing his leg in the line of duty, and the war on terror
“IT sounds bad, but I still scuba-dive,” said Israel Defence Force Major-General Uri Bar-Lev about losing a leg in an explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Passion fuels war of words in France
PARIS — When film distributors across Europe announced the dates for premiere screenings of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, one…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On the Front-line at the Hague Arnold Roth travelled to The Hague last month to speak to the media about Palestinian terror while the International Court of Justice weighed the legality of Israel’s security barrier. As elected spokesperson for a group of Israelis, and the father of one of nearly 1000 Israelis to have been killed by terror, he was on the front-line of the media war. These are his reflections
COURT proceedings fascinate me. Nearly 40 years ago, as a teenager on holidays in a Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Krazy Kartoon Dangerous War Heads
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Continued on Trove, page 12 →Best Throwback to Cold War Rhetoric
ALAN WOOD, who wrote an article with this headline (and we are not making this up) "The Spencer Street Soviet union huggers -The Age - get mugged hy reality" (The Australian, 2/3/04) Dripping in Cold War rhetoric, The Australian's economics editor…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Children’s War Fourtn Estate Fiction (Harper Collins), $29.95
YET another epic novel set in the Holocaust, this book is drawn from Charlesworth’s own family history. It traces the story of a young girl,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Protest coalition fighting the last war
One year after the war in Iraq began, a new anti-war protest is planned. Its aims are wider and its premise is that the US should withdraw from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A war on public transport?
Many terrorist experts now believe that terrorists are ideologically opposed to public transport Whether it be Israeli buses or Spanish trains, terrorists tend to target…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War on Terror: Howard makes nation even more secure: sends entire army to Iraq
PRIME Minister John Howard has stepped up his attack on Mark Latham's plan to bring the troops home by Christmas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →France Commemorates Anzac Day
Continuing a long-standing tradition ANZAC Day was comm morated at a number of memorial services across France on both April 24 and 25. This year commemorative ceremonies were org nised at the Australian Embassy in Paris, as well as at Le Hame…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Anzac Day à Melbourne
Malgré un temps maussade et à tendance hivernale, en ce 25 avril 2004, l'Association des Anciens Combattants Français du Victoria (AACFV) a défilé au sein troupes alliées. nombre des membres de l'Association, réduit par les maladies bien trop nombreuses…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Anzac-day 2004 a Brisbane
C'est par une journée splendide que les Anciens Combattants Français et leurs camarades légionnaires ont défilé dans les rues de Brisbane ce dimanche 25 avril 2004. En tête marchait fièrement notre nouveau Président Louis SULTAN, suivi du…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Cérémonie du 25 Avril 2004 Anzac Day
Dès l'aube une foule nombreuse pressait autour du Mémorial de ville. Situé en plein centre, ce monument simple et majestueux…
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