INSIDE THE AUSTRALIA-ISRAEL RELATIONSHIP: JOHN MONASH TO THE PRESENT DAY -- AN INTELLIGENCE PERSPECTIVE.

Based on her 2018 Leo Baeck Centre Lecture in Melbourne, the author, a retired intelligence officer with considerable experience of the intelligence dynamics of the Middle East, discusses the Australia/Israel relationship from the time of John Monash to the present. This span of time was chosen to reference the important work of Monash in establishing an Australian Intelligence Unit within the General Staff structure of the Army in the pre-World War One era. Drawing on source documents from the CIA, a relationship with Mossad that had an unlikely beginning, Australian Parliamentary Papers and her own notes, some alternate points of view regarding theatres of conflict such as Gallipoli, Vietnam, the 1967Arab-Israeli War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]