Peta Credlin: What’s behind Albanese’s failing compass on Middle East conflict
Australia's denial of an Israeli minister's visa and recognition of Palestine rightly sparked a fierce diplomatic clash between the two nations, writes Peta Credlin.
This week’s denial of a visa to an Israeli government minister, supposedly because he might inflame community tensions, provoked a huge spray from the Israeli Prime Minister who claimed the government’s recognition of Palestine was rewarding terrorism and a weak concession to the Islamist vote.
It pains me to back a foreign leader over our own but Bibi Netanyahu is right. What possessed Australia to recognise Palestine while Hamas is still holding some 20 living hostages (and the bodies of those dead at their hands), is still committed to the destruction of Israel, and is still using its own people as human shields?
Given Bob Hawke’s declaration that “if the bell tolls for Israel … it tolls for all mankind”, it’s hard to avoid Netanyahu’s conclusion that the Albanese government’s attitude to the Middle East conflict is entirely driven by the large concentrations of recent Muslim migrants in key ministers’ seats.
Why else would Australia favour a terrorist death cult over the Middle East’s only liberal democracy?
While Anthony Albanese did not directly return fire, his attack dogs had no such scruples. And it was no surprise Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke led the charge, given the very high concentration of Muslim voters in his western Sydney seat.
Whatever mistakes it might have made, no country has made more effort to avoid civilian casualties or to feed the people of its enemy than Israel. I don’t remember Britain feeding the Germans as they bombed Dresden and elsewhere to defeat the Nazis, and yet we demand a standard from Israel that we have not met ourselves.
It was bad enough when the Albanese government abandoned seven decades of bi-partisan support for Israel, but this latest war of words shows a complete lack of any moral compass.
THUMBS UP
High Court chief justice Stephen Gageler for reminding judges that their job was to apply the law, not to “improve” it by trying to be unelected politicians from the bench.
THUMBS DOWN
The South Australian health bureaucrat declaring that “intersex women and transgender women” had to be included in any discussion of the impact of miscarriage. And this after Premier Peter Malinauskas had earlier said that people were over woke
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