Ex-premier Bob Carr’s latest rant one of many against Zionists

Brad Norington reports for The Australian, yesterday:

Former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr has spoken out against Israel’s “cruel” and “foul” occupation of Palestin­ian land, and its “ruinous path” in rejecting the creation of a state of Palestine.

Carr really does let loose at these anti-Israel dinners, doesn’t he? Carr speaking at an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People event in Sydney, November 29, 2015:

The people of Palestine are seeing street by street the character, the nomenclature, of Jerusalem being changed … The story of Jerusalem is now being fabricated. Juda­ising and eliminating the Arab character of this great Arab city is a shocking thing to take place.

The former NSW premier has been the driving force behind a new push to force a future Labor government to recognise Palestine. The Australian, yesterday:

Mr Carr has been accused by pro-­Israel opponents in his party of acting behind the scenes to ­orchestrate passage of a resolution at this month’s NSW ALP conference that “urges the next Labor government to recognise Palestine” … Such a move would mark a dramatic break with 40 years of unqualified ALP support for ­Israel, and create unwanted ructions for Bill Shorten in the lead-up to the federal election due in 2019.

Never mind that the Palestinians have been offered a state many times and rejected it. Israeli ambassador to Australia Shmuel Ben-Shmuel in The Australian, today:

In 2000, the then Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat rejected then Israeli PM Ehud Barak’s peace offer, choosing instead to launch the second intifada … in 2008, then PA leader Mahmoud Abbas rejected then Israeli PM Ehud Olmert’s peace plan, the most far-reaching plan ever proposed … In 2014, PA leader Abbas evaded plans proposed by former US secretary of state John Kerry and has avoided answering a proposal put forth by then president Barack Obama.

And that there’s more than one Palestine. Israel news website Arutz Sheva, June 15:

Majid Al-Fitiani, secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, headed by Fatah leader and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, on Thursday sent a letter to Hamas … In the letter … Fitiani said that the “bloodthirsty coup” carried out by Hamas in the summer of 2007, when it violently took over Gaza …

But Carr has had it in for Israel for years. A November 2012 entry in Carr’s Diary of a Foreign Minister released April 13, 2014:

Our (the Gillard government’s) stance on the Middle East is shameful, in lock-step with the Likud, designed to feed the worst instincts of Israel …

But Carr will keep on fighting Israel. Diary of a Foreign Minister:

(Ms Gillard) tells me the Jewish community remains very important and they won’t settle for anything other than a “no” vote, that they figure prominently in fundraising and they’re big in Victoria.

All the while, the former foreign minister will keep voters in certain Sydney seats happy. The Australian, yesterday:

Census data released yesterday shows that key NSW Labor seats such as Watson, held by (Tony) Burke, and McMahon, held by ­opposition Treasury spokesman Chris Bowen, have among the largest populations with Arab ­ancestry.