Odds Shorten that if Putin rubs Bill’s face in the red carpet, he will say nothing
IF Bob Carr is sickened by religious fanatics he better not listen to Palestinan Authority TV.
if Bob Carr is sickened by religious fanatics, he better not watch Palestinian TV
Vladimir Putin isn’t welcome! Bill Shorten in The Australian Financial Review, August, 12:
PERSONALLY. I don’t think that Putin is welcome here …
Ban Putin!The Saturday Age, August 30:
OPPOSITION Leader Bill Shorten called on Mr Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to talk to other G20 member nations about banning Mr Putin from attending the leaders’ meeting in November. ‘‘It is probably time for the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister to be talking to other nations ... about whether it is appropriate for Mr Putin to come to Australia,’’ he said. ‘‘Following the tragic events of MH17, the complete lack of remorse or responsibility, the lack of full co-operation ... I think most Australians have grave reservations about welcoming Mr Putin to Australia.’’
I’m 90 per cent about not meeting Putin! Shorten, September 2:
I DON’T want to meet Putin. I’ve got no time for what he’s done. I get that the government has got to work through the issues. So am I 100 per cent about this matter? No, but I’m 90 per cent about what I think about Putin and whether or not he should come to Australia.
OK, Putin can turn up, but don’t rub my face in it on the red carpet! Shorten doorstop, October 13:
IT’S an international conference, not a conference run by Australia, so if Putin has the arrogance to turn up to visit a nation whose nationals died in this plane crash, he can. But I’m like most Australians, I wish that Putin would at least show enough conscience to be able to not come to Australia because he’s rubbing our faces in it. Also what I happen to think is that when you deal with international bullies, the way you do it isn’t by laying out the red carpet.
I’m 100 per cent about saying nothing to Putin. Shorten, Wednesday:
JOURNALIST: What would you say to Vladimir Putin if you came across him at the G20?
Shorten: Nothing.
I pivoted to Palestine because I’m sickened by Israeli fanatics! Bob Carr, The Weekend Australian, November 8:
ISRAEL has gone from secular to religious ... centrist (politicians elsewhere) have been sickened by (Israeli) religious fanatics standing on seized Palestinian land declaring that God gave them Judea and Samaria ...
Sickened by Palestinian fanatics? Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on Islamic affairs and sharia judge, Mahmoud al-Habbash, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, October 22:
THE entire land of Palestine is waqf (an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law) and is blessed land.
Committed to two states! Carr, The Weekend Australian, November 8:
NOW for 25 years Palestinians have been committed to a negotiated solution, most recently to a demilitarised state ... on the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Committed to liberating Palestine from Jordan River to the sea! Habbash, Official Palestinian Authority TV, September 26:
WHAT are we (Fatah and Hamas) divided about? Do we disagree about Jerusalem? (Do we) disagree about liberating Palestine from the (Jordan) River to the (Mediterranean) Sea? ...
Sickened by Israeli violence! Carr, The Weekend Australian, November 8:
(I’M) sickened by the routine violence of the settlers ...
Sickened by Palestinian violence? Israel Today, Monday:
TWO terrorist stabbing attacks on Monday claimed the lives of two young Israelis and left three others wounded ... In other violence, Palestinian Arabs stoned public buses and Jerusalem’s light rail ... A day earlier, an Israeli man narrowly escaped being lynched ... his car was torched.