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. Such is their arrogance and conceit. They really do. This is their expectation.
This is the conceited thinking of the left. That they are just that much more sophisticated 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 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.
The Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque weren’t built on top of the Temple Mount for no reason. It was all about 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.
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“…Anthony Albanese may just be getting a bit of an overdue lesson on why and how Australia matters in the Middle East and global
affairs. Just two months ago he was a diplomatic shrinking violet, telling the nation “we aren’t a central player in this conflict” as he
tried to explain why he was late to support US military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week derided Albanese as a “weak” leader who “betrayed Israel” and
“abandoned Australia’s Jews”, our Prime Minister may be getting the sense that Australia’s position may count for something after all.
What we do and say sure matters to Israel; and it also matters to the bloodthirsty jihadists of Hamas who have used Albanese’s
demonisation of Israel and promotion of a Palestinian state as propaganda fodder.
As our Prime Minister faces the prospect of more American tariff pain, concerns about the future of AUKUS and doubts about
whether he will ever meet face-to-face with US President Donald Trump, Albanese’s backsliding in the Middle East puts further
distance between Canberra and Washington. A mutually beneficial corollary of Australia standing firmly behind Israel was that the
US had another significant, developed and democratic nation bolstering its steadfastness, along with the likes of Italy, Germany and
Japan.
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
‘Reckless retreat’: Chris Kenny blasts Albanese government for ‘abandoning’ Israel encourages jihadists everywhere?
Why would it do this at the same time it grants visas to visiting Islamist hate-preachers such asSami 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.
The warped attitude to the conflict has been evident from the night of October 7, 2023, when Foreign Minister Penny Wong urged
restraint.
Bodies still were being recovered in southern Israel, hundreds of hostages were being tortured, raped and killed, authorities were
still working out who was missing, dead or injured, and anyone paying attention was gut-wrenched by the callous killing, brutal
sadism and Islamist rejoicing seen in the readily available videos of many of the 1200 murders – yet Wong was calling on Israel to
exercise restraint.
It was an appalling start and only descended further. The following night Sheik Ibrahim Dadoun took to a street corner in Sydney’s
Lakemba and rejoiced at the murder of innocents, saying he was “elated” and proud of a day of “courage” and “victory”.
We know Albanese was aware of this because he offered mild admonition on breakfast television, but when he spoke at the
Lakemba mosque later that day he made no mention of the Hamas atrocities or the lamentable local celebrations.
Then, that night, we saw the disgraceful scenes at the Sydney Opera House with people chanting “F..k the Jews” and either “Gas the Jews” or
“Where’s the Jews” – as if either is acceptable – and again state and federal authorities just stood by.
This behaviour from police and governments is either inconceivably inhuman or inexplicably ignorant, and they have failed to
reclaim the situation ever since.
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.
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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 first time I visited Israel was 19 years ago when I was working for foreign minister Alexander Downer. This was soon after Gaza
had been handed over to the Palestinian people in the hope that this de facto state might herald a new beginning.
I saw and heard enough to be sceptical about these hopes and took the unusual step for a political staffer of publishing an article. It
was in Adelaide’s The Advertiser and it is instructive now, almost 20 years on: “When Israel took the remarkable step of unilaterally
withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, the extremists didn’t embrace peace. They continued to fire rockets from the new sanctuary of
Gaza, aiming to kill Israelis.
And the despairing Palestinians elected a hateful Hamas government, born out of the insidious Muslim Brotherhood and committed to the destruction of Israel. So, the trauma for the Israelis and the Palestinians – and all of us – goes on.”
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…”