Piers Akerman: As political leaders fall on their words over Hamas’ horrors Joe Bidens nails the truth

It’s nice to know Joe Biden can occasionally articulate something that is absolutely accurate as our own leaders offer up worthless, ambiguous statements to atrocities that need to be condemned, writes Piers Akerman.

Say what you like about sleepy, stumbling, mumbling Joe Biden but he does know a dictator when he sees one. The US President nailed it after meeting the Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week in San Francisco.

Quizzed by media as to whether he would still refer to Xi as a “dictator”, a term he had used earlier this year, Biden didn’t prevaricate.

In fact, he pointed out a couple of inconvenient facts to the reporter.

“Well, look, he is,” Biden said. “I mean, he’s a dictator in the sense that he – he is a guy who runs a country that – it’s a communist country that is based on a form of government totally different than ours.” When much of the Western world’s media shies away from publishing anything that may remotely cause offence to the worst, the most egregious criminals in the world, a world leader pointing out that a dictator is a dictator is something of a novelty.

Our own little leader, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, flipped like a Circus Oz acrobat when asked whether he would label Xi a dictator.

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' week in Woodside, California. Picture: Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

After all, China’s premier, Li Qiang, notably flattered Albanese by calling him a “handsome boy” when they met earlier this month in Beijing.

That was enough to send many in the accompanying Canberra press corps into paroxysm of praise for the PM’s diplomatic skills, when all the Chinese had done was promise to ease some of the economic sanctions they had placed on Australia after former prime minister Scott Morrison questioned Covid’s origins.

(The Chinese have still not come clean on that one.)

Truth in politics is a rare thing.

Former PM John Howard stood for truth in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, when 35 people were murdered.

Albanese can’t even speak out against surging anti-Semitism after more than 1200 people were murdered by Islamic terrorists on October 7, without talking about women in hijabs. The more asinine media commentators are faithfully following the lines written for them in Tehran about Hamas and Hezbollah.

So, too, are UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese – who is also a feted protected species at our ABC.

Not one of them, to use the line from A Few Good Men, can handle the truth. That truth being simply that Hamas is a terrorist organisation that wants to erase not only Israel from the map, but all Jews from the earth. Then it wants to kill everyone who is not a Muslim. This truth is stated clearly in the Hamas charter.

There’s room for a couple more unpalatable truths about Islamists that you won’t hear from those chanting “gas the Jews” and waving jihadi flags at Sydney demonstrations – as they hide their angry faces in their fashionable chequered terrorist keffiyehs before finding a police escort to guide them to a Jewish neighbourhood.

It’s a fact that more Muslims are killed by fellow Muslims each year than by any infidel army.

President Assad of Syria has accounted for more than 500,000 in his war against those who oppose his appalling regime – and more than half of the pre-war population of 22 million has been displaced.

Remind me, how many protests about these deaths have we seen? How many chador-draped women have there been outside state or federal parliament waving pictures of the murdered in Damascus, or those butchered by Iran’s religious leaders for not covering their hair?

Answer: Not one. Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s ambiguous statements on the conflict are as worthless as those from independent teal MPs Allegra Spender and Zoe Daniel.

As for Joe Biden, it’s just nice to know that he can occasionally articulate something that is absolutely accurate.