“There is no Israeli that wants to see hunger in the streets of Gaza. I don’t think that there is anybody that is happy about that. On the other hand, I’m not ready, just as most Israelis are not ready, to sacrifice even one finger of an Israeli soldier or risk his life in order to provide them food.
“There’s no moral value that says I have to die, or my soldiers have to die, in order to provide my enemy food.”
– David Stav, chief rabbi of Shoham, a town in central Israel
- The Labor Party is frightened to face the reality of the unspeakable brutality of Hamas.
- Albanese and Wong are determined to realise an ambition they have held since their student days.
- They both support a two-State solution – while in the process disparage Israel.
by ROGER CROOK – I AM half way through the latest book by the famous author Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults – Israel, Hamas and the future of the West.
I am not sure if I shall have the stomach, the intestinal fortitude to read the second half.
Murray tells in fine and intensely shocking detail what Hamas did to the Israeli people when they invaded Israel on October 7, 2023.
The manner in which men, women and children were brutalised before they were killed, and then the unimaginable acts Hamas men committed on the dead and dying women should be made public.
RUTHLESS
Murray’s account is ruthless in its detail; while reading his stark prose, at times I stopped and just stared into space trying to grasp such unimaginable sadistic ruthlessness in this day and age.
Murray tells in graphic detail of the terrible deeds, of the inhumanity of Hamas recorded on body cameras worn by them as they murdered raped and plundered their way through a music festival and the kibbutzim.
The cameras were retrieved by Israeli forces. We can only pray they were taken from dead Hamas invaders.
Hamas used their victims phones to record their indescribable deeds and then sent the pictures of their atrocities to their victim’s families.
If Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong have read Murray’s book or seen the film compiled by the Israelis from the material on the Hamas bodycams, their behaviour towards Israel is perverse in the extreme.
Albanese must be the only leader of an elected government who hasn’t visited Israel after the atrocity in October 2023.
Wong has visited and refused to see for herself the death and destruction caused by Hamas; she preferred to visit the families of survivors and other Arab nations in the area. She did not meet with Mr Netanyahu.
Have those Australian “community leaders”, Ed Husic, Bob Carr, Craig Foster, Julian Assange, Clover Moore, Mary Kostakides, those self-appointed oh-so important people who carried the “humanity” banner across the Harbour bridge seen the film of the Hamas atrocities or read Murray’s book?
Or are they like the Labor Party, frightened to face the reality of the unspeakable brutality of Hamas.
Those who marched for “humanity” marched under the flags of Hamas, Palestine and Iran. There was not an Australian national flag to be seen among the 90,000.
I did see the aboriginal colours being flown alongside and in solidarity with the flag of Palestine.
The marchers chanted “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free”. And “death, death to the ADF”.
That is a call for genocide of the Jews and the destruction of Israel.
Is that what Carr, Husic, Assange and Foster and the 90,000 really want? Did they shout inshallah?
On the “March for Humanity” some carried the picture of Ayatollah Khamenei. The Muslim monster responsible for the execution of Iranian gay men and women and thousands of his fellow Iranians. The man who funded all of Israel’s enemies.
In Melbourne, demonstrators, faces hidden, set fire to our national flag.
Has our Prime Minister Albanese and his Minister for Foreign Affairs and all of those who led the march forgotten what happened in 1947 when one of the fathers of the modern Australia Labor Party, Dr HV Evatt, then Minister for External Affairs, played a crucial roll in the establishment of Israel?
In 1947 Dr Evatt chaired the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine.
That committee recommended the establishment of an Independent Jewish State. This was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in May 1947; the State of Israel was subsequently proclaimed in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.
Since that day seventy seven years ago, apart from a brief time during the catastrophic Gough Whitlam era, Australia has been a loyal friend to Israel.
Now that is all changing. Albanese and Wong are determined to realise an ambition they have held since their student days and support a two-state solution and in the process disparage Israel.
SOCIALIST ELITE
Their arrogance towards Israel is wrapped in a cloak of self–righteous pomposity frequently found among the socialist elite.
Is Anthony Albanese intent of finishing what Gough Whitlam started during his short and disastrous term as Australia’s Prime Minister?
Shortly after moving into The Lodge in 1972, Gough Whitlam, dramatically shifted Australia’s position on Israel by reversing Australia’s bi-partisan stance at the UN.
It was during the Yom Kippur War that he refused to back Israel and decided his government would remain neutral.
Bob Hawke, then leader of the powerful ACTU, was so incensed he threatened to resign from the Labor Party.
It is said that, at the time, Whitlam told VP Suslov, an official at the Soviet Embassy that he looked forward to the time when “the gradual increase in the size of the Arab population in Australia” would “balance” the “Jewish pressures” and their “crude blackmail”.
In those few words Whitlam showed that in being neutral he cared little for the survival of Israel and even less for the future of the Jews in Australia.
Are those the views of Albanese and his colleagues? Is this why they have refused to curb Islamic demonstrations and propaganda in Australia?
Is Labor still looking to “balance” the Jewish presence in Australia, with Arabs?
At the time of the Yom Kippur War, Whitlam also loudly condemned the United States for providing weapons and ammunition to aid Israel’s self-defence; while at the same time he blithely ignored the fact that the Soviet Union was providing military assistance to the Arab States who were invading and intent on eliminating Israel.
It didn’t end their either. In 1972 Whitlam wrote to President Richard Nixon a Republican, condemning the bombing of Hanoi in what became known as the “Christmas Bombings”.
Henry Kissinger responded angrily to Whitlam’s letter and warned the Australian Embassy official, Roy Fernandez, that America didn’t appreciate being put on the same level as the enemy.
Whitlam was suspicious of America and its intelligence operations, particularly the lack of transparency involving Pine Gap.
He was trenchant in his opposition to the war in Vietnam. America’s domination in world affairs was a constant source of frustration for him.
So concerned was Nixon about the deteriorating relationships with Whitlam and Australia that a month before he resigned, he asked his advisers to look into relocating Americas intelligence installations in Australia and to assess “the impact on our alliance with Australia of curtailing or ending intelligence sharing”.
Is this history repeating itself; after fifty years in the political wilderness are Gough’s confused and biased opinions being revived by his disciple, Albanese?
AMBIVALENT
Like Whitlam with Nixon, Albanese has shown that he is somewhat ambivalent about Australia’s relationship with America and President Trump who, like Nixon, is a Republican.
Is Albanese bringing forward yet again a long-standing ALP aversion to America, conservatism, and its military strategy, which has now focused on our region and China?
Does Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio wonder if this is the reason why our dear leader, our “handsome boy”, has shied away from meeting at the White House and the possibility of a grilling by the Washington press pack in the Oval Office?
They must know that our prime minister preferred instead to spend a week being feted in the Middle Kingdom, visiting pandas and the Great Wall, and having lunch with its “dear leader” President Xi.
Bob Hawke was different to Whitlam. His biographer Blanch D’Alpuget tells that he fell in love with the qualities of the Israelis from the moment he arrived in Tel Aviv in 1971.
He loved their egalitarian irreverence and their extreme informality. He liked their relaxed attitude and their readiness to leap into action when necessary.
D’Alpuget observed that these were all attributes Hawke himself embodied and prized.
Hawke also showed his love for Israel in his comment after the Yom Kippur War. “If the bell tolls for Israel it won’t just toll for Israel, it will toll for all mankind”.
In 1975 as President of the ALP Bob Hawke raised a question that remains unanswered and pertinent today:
Hawke asked: “Essentially Israel is asking the question – is the world going to insist on the right of Israel to exist as a sovereign independent State or will the world increasingly succumb to an array of economic pressures, unremitting propaganda and attempts to weaken the American commitment which in combination, will leave Israel friendless and expendable?”
Anthony Albanese would do well to address that question and in so doing, tell the world where Australia now stands with the Jewish State.
There are rumours that our Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, is the strength behind Labor’s negative conduct towards Israel.
You decide:
- In 1987 while still at university she joined the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party.
- She joined the Labor Party in 1988.
- Before entering parliament in 2002, Wong worked for several unions and well-known Palestine supporters.
Both Albanese and Wong have held their current position on Palestine and Israel for many years. Both are of the Left faction. Wong of the far Left.
Who knows what President Trump may be thinking of Australia and our prime minister with the future of AUKUS on his desk?
Is Trump, like Nixon before him, asking Secretary Rubio whether he can trust these Australian far Left socialists with not only America’s nuclear secrets, but as a partner as America refocuses its military strategy away from the north and into the southern climes of the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea? PC
Our Communist Labor Govt. dares not utter a single word against these people. There are some 900,000 of them now in AUSTRALIA and three words from the Mosque will instantly strip ALL of those essential votes from key labor electorates.
I often wonder about the psychology of those who support Hamas. I suspect that it is a one-dimensional view that says: I hate America, America supports Israel, therefore I hate Israel and consequently the enemy of Israel is my friend. Why a visceral hate of America should colour all other world events is truly shallow thinking. Yes, America has often not lived up to its ideals (Mc Carthyism, black civil rights, Vietnam War, Nixon’s failings). But, for all that, throwing the baby out with the bathwater is unwise. Better to improve the foundations of US democracy that rip it apart with little of any positivity to replace it with.
It is a paradox of human behaviour, but a very real mood nevertheless, that people will often take out their disillusions with a system by supporting an entity or political party that is counter to their fundamental beliefs. Witness the recent fulsome win of the Federal Labor Party…many voting out of anger at a dysfunctional Liberal Party, rather than as a fullblooded support for Labor Left policies.
Would any psychiatrist care to explain further???
Fabian Society?
Great article Roger. hawke is better than I thought for a Labor prime minister. Albo is a damn fool.