Despite the US-Australia alliance being central to our security, Albanese has decided he is happy to have a second-tier relationship with his counterpart, Trump. Three significant failures underscore this.
I think Hamas will call Donald Trump’s bluff. It may release some hostages but not all. It will string out Trump’s deadline, calculating the President won’t bring down hell on Gaza.
The left in Australia will hate Trump’s burst of unlikely Middle East creativity. Perhaps it’s all part of a push for a new security order in the Middle East.
People are planning it. They are itching to do it. It will finish off Albanese’s leadership as sure as it will harm the innocents among us.
Anthony Albanese needs a circuit-breaker on Israel and anti-Semitism.
The Western determination to press for peace at all costs has not delivered a lasting or sustainable political solution towards building two states coexisting side by side.
Much in 2025 depends on the character of the Trump administration. One thing is a certainty: this will be a year of living with danger.
Angry individuals of the so-called pro-Palestinian protest movement are ripe for radicalisation. They have been given free rein to conduct their increasingly threatening and illegal behaviour on our streets for nearly two years. It has to stop.
Is Australia any better placed in a tactical sense to stop or respond to vehicle attacks like we have seen in New Orleans? Absolutely not.
Ambassador Xiao would be well advised to leave at the high point of delivering some of Beijing’s 14 grievances. It is going to get much harder for Australia to occupy the feel-good middle ground in 2025.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/peter-jennings