Random Note — Albanese, Wong and Hamas

Chris Kenny raises the question:—

“𝐒𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝? 𝐃𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞, 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝”?

Yes, I think they do. That this is their expectation.

This is the conceited thinking of the “we know what’s best”, global left.

That they are just that much more sophisticated than any of us over conflict resolution without any knowledge or understanding of the origins of the conflict.

It’s all part of the same, insidious “defund the police”, send in the social workers, counsellors and therapists mind-set at scale, with all its attendant and condescending, breathy and mealy mouthed exhortations and endless talking without any understanding of:

𝐀. What the conflict is about.

and 𝐁. The 1400 year history of Islams determination to wipe out the Jews.

It is no co-incidence that the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque were built on top of Temple Mount. It wasn’t for no reason. They were buit specifically at that location to send a message of intimidation and provocation.

This is not and never has been about land or a two state solution. The Palestinians don’t want a two state solution.This is about writing the Jews out of their own history and a de-judeafication from the River to the Sea.

But don’t expect Albanese or Wong to know or I understand any of this. Or maybe they do and feel it is their duty to act as enablers and facilitators at the behest of the voters of Lakemba and Western Sydney.

𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐎𝐍 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 from the Chris Kenny column   “What we do and say matters to Israel – and the bloodthirsty jihadists of Hamas, too..”

“…The Albanese government’s constant criticism of Israel and eagerness to recognise a non-existent Palestinian state has not only trashed our longstanding national values and undercut a meaningful relationship with Israel but it also has made us less useful to the US.

All to appease a noisy Islamist and hard-left constituency at home and blend in with jelly-backed countries at the UN.

No good can come from Albanese’s position.

A two-state solution is further away than it was two years ago, and whatever Australia, France, Canada and Britain say, Israel will root out Hamas from Gaza – it has no other option.

We are left to wonder why Albanese has put Australia in this position.

How could we break a bond with Israel that predates its establishment as a modern nation (as Netanyahu pointed out, the mateship goes back to our Light Horsemen liberating Beersheba from the Ottoman Empire in 1917) just when it is again defending itself on several military fronts and in a global propaganda war against the mutual enemy of Islamist extremists?

Why would a robust nation such as Australia that has suffered terror attacks on home soil, fought Islamist extremists in Afghanistan, confronted jihadist insurgents in Iraq and tackled Islamist terror groups in Southeast Asia take a foreign policy position that encourages jihadists everywhere?

Why would it do this at the same time it grants visas to visiting Islamist hate-preachers such as Sami Hamdi and Mohammed Ghuloom, approves 3000 Palestinians from Gaza who could not have been subjected to thorough security checks, allows domestic hate-preachers to go unpunished and describes an anti-Israel march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge that involved hateful Islamist extremists, terrorist flags and posters of the supreme leader of Iran as “peaceful”?

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐲𝐚. 𝐘𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.

Is it possible that an ideological disposition has led many of our political leaders, bureaucrats, opinion shapers and academics to become gormless victims of Islamist propaganda?

𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭, 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭.

Their fundamental mistake, from which all their dangerous ineptitude flows, may be that they really believe this is a war about establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

This lack of comprehension is why Netanyahu, in his interview with my Sky News colleague Sharri Markson, had to remind Albanese that Israel is “fighting a war for Western civilisation against these barbarians”.

Given all Australia has been through since losing 10 citizens and invoking ANZUS for the first time on 9/11, then the trauma of Afghanistan, the Bali bombings, the Jakarta embassy bombing and more than a dozen Islamist terrorist attacks carried out or thwarted at home, it is almost inconceivable that a national government could fail to understand these issues – but all the evidence suggests they have no idea.

Why else would anyone respond to Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack by proffering a Palestinian state as a solution? Sure, Hamas and its apologists couch the conflict in these terms because a focus on a two-state solution puts pressure on Israel and makes out the Jewish state is the problem, but Hamas has no truck with Israel existing in any shape or form, ever.

You can judge this very easily from its actions, and the words of its charter – it is no secret.

The charter is as much about religion as it is about Palestine, saying the “Islamic Resistance Movement’s (Hamas’s) program is Islam” and that “Israel will exist and continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it”.

The charter even says: “Initiatives and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.”

The Palestinian cause is a platform and fulcrum for the expression of a broader jihadist fundamentalism.

Now sure, Albanese and his cohorts go some way to recognising this by saying Hamas can have no role in a future Palestinian state. But they have no plan to dismantle it; in fact they implore Israel to stop its military attacks against Hamas, even while the terrorists hold 50 hostages (30 dead and 20 alive).

𝐒𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝? 𝐃𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞, 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝?

More important, this bypasses the central fact that the war is with Hamas, it was started by Hamas and escalated by Hamas with its terrorist comrades in Lebanon, Yemen and Iran.

Yet the proposition put by Albanese is that somehow a peace can be delivered without overcoming Hamas, and that Hamas then can be excluded from the political, military and ideological future of Gaza and the West Bank. How? By whom?

And why is there no mention of Iran, the key backer of Hamas?

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐣𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐳𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

The analogy I used then was that the freedom being defended by Israel against the global threat of Islamist extremism was akin to the way the people of West Berlin represented the global resistance to Soviet communism.

I think that remains true – their fight is our fight for the liberal democratic and pluralistic values we cherish.

None of us could have imagined 20 years ago that Gaza would descend to the depravity of October 7 and the intolerable cruelty and suffering we have now seen.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭…”