Greens leader Adam Bandt and deputy Mehreen Faruqi are playing cheap politics to wedge Labor and pick off inner-city progressive voters by weaponising tragic scenes in the Middle East sparked by murderous Hamas terrorists.
The Greens, who will potentially hold the balance of power if Labor’s vote tanks in 2025, are seizing on divisions inside the Albanese government and international protests led by left-wing activists in tandem with Palestinian extremists who have one goal – the destruction of Israel.
Fanning the flames of division amid ugly scenes of anti-Semitism around the world and in Australia, the Greens conveniently whitewash Hamas terrorists murdering more than 1400 Israelis and taking hundreds more hostage in Gaza.
The Greens, dominated by white, inner-city elitists, embrace any opportunity to undermine a Labor government struggling to strike a balance on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the tragic loss of civilian life in Israel and Gaza.
The contrived walkout by Faruqi and Greens senators in the upper house on Monday proved again that the left-wing party has no respect for Australia’s parliament nor its foreign policy.
If the Greens ran the country, Australia would have no defence force, tens of thousands of mining jobs would be at-risk, drugs would be decriminalised, taxpayers would miraculously fund universal access to health services and blackouts would cripple the economy as gas and coal are phased out.
Thankfully, only a handful of political tragics tune into Senate question time where Faruqi accused the Albanese government of supporting Israeli “war crimes” in Gaza, raised her fist and shouted “free Palestine”.
Anthony Albanese’s inner-Sydney seat of Grayndler is fast becoming a Greens stronghold, with the party previously backing a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against the Prime Minister.
Within five months of taking office, Mr Albanese reversed Scott Morrison’s decision to recognise West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The decision caused concern among senior officials in Israel, traditionally a close ally of Australia.
After the October 7 Hamas attack, it took several weeks before Albanese spoke with Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the Israel Prime Minister speaking with dozens of world leaders. In contrast, and following Peter Dutton’s call for Albanese to visit Tel Aviv, Morrison this week arrived in Israel to express his solidarity with the Jewish state as a former PM.
In the face of concerns about civilian deaths in Gaza raised by Left Faction figures and western Sydney MPs with high numbers of Islamic voters, Albanese must show leadership and strength to ensure a wider Middle East conflict does not stoke division and undermine social cohesion in Australia.
He must hold the line against the Greens and left-wing activists.
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