CARTOONIST Kron comments on the controversy over the fake passports used in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhoud in Dubai.

A selection of letters published in the AJN print edition of March 5, 2010

Let’s focus on al-Mabhouh not on the passports

OUR Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, talking on TV stations and on the front pages of the newspapers, made a huge fuss about three Australian passports, in which the pictures were probably changed.

The most important fact, though, is that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh will no longer murder innocent Israelis and will not transfer arms for that same purpose to other terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
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The fallout from the passport scandal

FROM James Bond to Jason Bourne, from Mata Hari to Mission Impossible, it seems we have a hunger for stories of spies and secret agents that is never satisfied. Murder, theft and deception dominate their daily lives, the rules of morality that underpin the foundations of civil society are abandoned, and yet – at least as far as fictional protagonists are concerned – we revel in their exploits and hail them as heroes.

In the real world, however, our attitude towards espionage is perhaps a little more circumspect. We know it goes on, we know for our security it has to go on and, when the interests of our own nation are being served, we welcome the results. But as for how those ends are achieved, the morally dubious details that thrill us on the big screen are, in reality, those we’d often prefer to be kept in the dark about.
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LAUGH at cartoonist Kron’s humorous look on Jewish life in his latest Kronicles cartoon.

CARTOONIST Kron comments on world reaction to the Gaza war of December 2008.

My neighbour the terrorist?

IT is interesting that the same week a local Melbourne newspaper reports on neighbours complaining about “inappropriate” security training at a Jewish school, the government reveals that one of the biggest emerging security threats facing Australia is home-grown terrorism.

In the Jewish community, we are all too aware of the danger of terrorism in our communities. Our volunteers, together with police and Australia’s intelligence agencies, work overtime to identify anybody who may be threatening our community.
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LAUGH at cartoonist Kron’s humorous look on Jewish life in his latest Kronicles cartoon.

CARTOONIST Kron comments on the war of words over Iran’s nuclear program.

CARTOONIST Kron comments on the war of words over Iran’s nuclear program.

Sharing our experiences

JEWISH Australians should be heartened by the words of Aboriginal rights advocate Noel Pearson, who stated this week that Jews are “at the top of the list” of peoples who have contributed to civilisation, and that indigenous Australians could learn from our communal model.

Writing in The Australian, he lauded the Jewish commitment to education, as well as skills in defending ourselves from racism, without internalising the predator’s message and morphing it into victimhood.
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