The world can’t wait for peace. Tell that to Hamas, Penny Wong
‘The world cannot wait. We cannot allow any party to obstruct the prospect of peace’. Tell that to Hamas Ms Wong, writes Tim Blair.
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There are some who believe throwing soup at Van Gogh paintings will somehow save the planet from climate change.
Until now, those people represented the absolute apex in arrogant, self-deceiving and privileged protesting.
And then along came Penny Wong with her speech to UN General Assembly in New York.
In that speech, our Foreign Minister came across as more detached from reality than even the most temperature-obsessed soup chucker.
Besides delivering another load of her standard anti-Israel hectoring, Wong broadly attempted to rewrite basic concepts as they relate to our shared physical universe.
It was quite the performance.
“The world cannot wait,” Wong announced, before calling on the poisonous UN to establish “a clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood”.
“The world cannot keep hoping the parties will do this themselves,” Wong continued. “We cannot allow any party to obstruct the prospect of peace.”
Tell that to Hamas, Ms Wong. Tell that to the October 7 butchers whose wilful and obscene atrocities should forever deny Hamas and their followers any role in peace discussions.
Wong told the UN that a two-state solution was “the opposite of what Hamas wants”. It is of more than passing interest that our Foreign Minister apparently possesses Hamas mind-reading powers, but she does have a point.
Hamas, as everything said and done by this murderous band of 7th century throwbacks makes absolutely clear, wants a one-state solution. Themselves and no Israel.
Further, Wong declared, any future Palestinian state “must not be in a position to threaten Israel’s security”.
Sounds like she’s calling for Hamas and their homies to get out of Gaza. If so, it’s the best idea she’s ever had.
“There can be no role for terrorists,” Wong said. But slow down there, champ. If it weren’t for October 7’s vicious terrorism, would Wong and other pro-Palestinian activists have subsequently amplified their demands for Palestinian statehood?
Terrorism works on certain people. In their worldview, it may even be said to have a “role”.
Elsewhere in this nonsensical soup-tosser of a speech, Wong declaimed on the nature of regulation in wartime.
“War has rules,” she said, presumably in the same tone of voice she used during leadership battles between her previous Labor leaders Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
“Every country in this room must abide by them,” Wong went on. “Even when confronting terrorists. Even when defending borders.”
The circular logic exhibited here is breathtaking. Hamas obviously didn’t abide by any rules when its gangs of murdering rapists swarmed a music festival, torturing and killing hundreds of innocents and kidnapping others.
Ah, but Israel’s foes may point out: Hamas at this point represents no specific country. And as Wong said, only countries must follow rules of war.
“These rules always matter – never more so than in times of conflict – when they help guide us out of darkness, back toward light,” this absurd individual said, subjecting sweet logic to further mistreatment.
Of course any rules of law are important in times of conflict. There’s otherwise no need for them. As Wong could have said, road rules also always matter – never more so than in times of driving.
The UN has for years provided financial and ethical cover for every demented leftist cause you could imagine, so Wong naturally adores the entire perverse operation.
“The world’s peoples are counting on all of us here,” she said. Let’s cut that number back a little. Instead of fussing about the “world’s peoples”, perhaps the UN and its Wong-like minions could do something or anything to rescue those desperate survivors held hostage by Hamas for nearly a year.
“We convene this week,” Wong summarised, “with so much of the human family enshrouded in darkness.”
None more so than those held at gunpoint in the caves and tunnels under Gaza. Speak strongly and primarily of their plight, Ms Foreign Minister. Speak of their freedom. Speak of their justice.
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