Labor’s ‘extreme anti-Israel position’ is to blame for the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue and increasing anti-Semitism throughout Australia, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said in an extraordinary intervention.
The sight of the burnt-out prayer hall in Ripponlea, the beating heart of this country’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, is something that should horrify every decent Australian. And yet it won’t.
Melbourne’s Jewish community is in shock after Adass Israel Synagogue was ‘deliberately’ set alight in what has been described as ‘another shocking escalation of hate’.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s stinging rebuke of the Albanese government’s position on Israel has all but fractured two decades of bipartisan Australian support for the Jewish state.
While there is a substantial gap between Trump’s rhetoric and the reality of what he does, his comments offer the clearest signal yet his administration will have Israel’s back.
The dark forces that propped up Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime during his country’s civil war are now too busy fighting their own battles against democracies to help their fellow despot.
In defiance of premature ceasefire calls, Israel has brought one of the world’s most feared terrorist groups to its knees and changed the Middle East’s strategic landscape.
Australia has joined other countries in expressing hope that the 60-day ceasefire between Israel and the Iranian-backed terrorist group would act as a catalyst for an end to the fighting in Gaza.
All 227 federal MPs and senators will be sent books to better educate them on the Middle East and Israel’s perspective.
What makes the 60-day ceasefire with Hezbollah so remarkable is that Israel clinched it by monstering a terrorist group that foolishly goaded it and then misjudged Jerusalem’s capabilities and its commitment to cripple it.
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