Greg Bouwer: Ashley Church - Relocating Gazans to Egypt

Over the past few days, US President Trump has repeatedly insisted that some or all of the citizens of Gaza must be relocated to other Arab states.

At first glance, this demand might seem unreasonable or absurd – but it actually has a surprising degree of historical precedent and, had history played out differently, may have allowed the world to avoid the situation which exists today.

Ashley Church: Fighting fire with fire

I’ve attended many Pro-Israel rallies over the years and have been a speaker at most of them – but my first experience of a ‘counter rally’, where pro-Pally protesters turn up to disrupt was in 2018.

That was the year of the 70th anniversary of the modern State of Israel. It was also about a year after the Israel Institute of NZ had been established and I was asked to be the MC for an outdoor event at Silo Park in Auckland.