Like millions around the world, I’m relieved the criminal, brutal Israeli rampage in Gaza has stopped. It’s also good to see the end of the captivity of the 20 Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza and of some hundreds of Palestinians held by the Israelis (most of them languishing for months and years without having even being charged of any crime). All this is good and if it must be credited to Donald Trump, so be it.
Having said that, I doubt much more good will come out of Trump’s initiative. There are many reasons to argue this. This headline provides the clearest argument:
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It’s a very bad omen when the Butcher of Tel Aviv decided to risk offending Trump – President of Israel’s chief patron – by snubbing his peace summit.
As recently as September 9th the Israelis failed in their attempt to murder the Hamas representatives in Qatar. He has form in sabotaging ceasefires. He could try that again.
Netanhyahu’s dislike for Trump’s plan, which his spurn strongly suggests, is not due to it being too onerous for the State of Israel – it’s not. A much more likely explanation is that he needed the massacre to last, potentially forever, to keep the parliamentary support of the Israeli unhinged Right: their thirst for Palestinian blood cannot be quenched. 67,211 (including at least 18,885 children) murdered and 169,961 injured in these last two terrible years in Gaza alone, are clearly not enough.
By contrast, other than avoiding a relentless storm of Israeli bullets, destruction and starvation – valuable as it is – it’s hard to see any gains for the Palestinians.
Let’s give a specific example: self-determination. While a principle of international law and a human right recognised by the United Nations, self-determination, a long time demand of Palestinians, was not addressed in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Instead, as if deliberately intended to add insult to injury, the idea of putting war criminal Tony Blair as head of some vague governing body for Gaza was mentioned.
Let’s hope this was just one of Trump’s thought farts and nobody actually tries to ram this down Palestinian throats.
This leads us directly to the breathtaking and quite possibly self-defeating hypocrisy of Australian politicians.
Under Anthony Albanese, Australia recognised a Palestinian State (Albo used to be pro-Palestinian btw). So you would have thought they would have the same doubts I have about the Trump peace process.
Think again.
I’ve named Albanese as an example of hypocrisy. I could have mentioned many others. Hypocrisy is a bi-partisan thing. For example, the cretin leading the COALITION comes to mind, because of her prominence.
Instead, I nominate Chris Minns, the NSW Premier and NSW Labor Leader. Don’t get me wrong. I do not claim he reneged on any friendship group, lake Albo and Sussan did (personally, I doubt any friendship group would have wanted him as a member).
People like Albo and Sussan (with a double S because of her deep knowledge of numerology indicates that two S are more propitious!) are hypocrites because their “heartfelt” commitments do the Palestinian cause do not trump (pun intended) political convenience. I nominate Minns for his shamelessly cynical opportunism.
I doubt he cares about antisemitism or Islamophobia. But it’s obvious that he cares deeply about crushing dissent. And he’s hell bent on crushing climate change protests. Antisemitism just gave him the excuse he needed.
Based on claims Australia was suffering an outbreak of antisemitism, Minns rammed through Parliament the so-called Crimes Amendment (Places of Worship) Bill 2025, penalising with up to two years imprisonment and $22k fines for protesting near a place of worship. Just on Sydney’s George Street (where Town Hall is and where climate change protests usually gather) there are at least three such places of worship (St. Peter Julian’s Church, Christ Church St. Laurence, and St. Andrew’s Cathedral).
And the icing on the cake? There never was such outbreak. First of all, it turns out that the statistics on antisemitic incidents used to advance the Bill, and gathered by the NSW Police Force were grossly inflated, whether by incompetence or dishonesty, that’s the question.
And we already knew that the worst “antisemitic” incidents were fabricated; essentially a con job. The perpetrators were not antisemites, but common crooks without any political ideology. They were paid to carry out their attacks and did not intend to hurt Jewish people so much as to provide their pay masters with leverage in their judicial proceedings.
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In his crusade on behalf of gas and coal mining giants against climate change protests, Minns is no different from South Australian Premier Peter Malinauska, Western Australia Premier Roger Cook and Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan (a Labor trifecta!).
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