Statement on Foreign Minister’s Two-State Solution Remarks
Never in Australian history has a government so dismally failed when it comes to foreign policy.
Abandoning over a century of bipartisanship at home and bilateral relations abroad, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have put the issue of Palestinian statehood ahead of Australia’s national interest, just 6 months aer Hamas terrorists kidnapped, raped and murdered thousands of Jewish people.
What occurred on October 7 was the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the persecuon and pogroms of the Second World War.
Last year, I called out PM Albanese and FM Wong on their policy of willful blindness when it came to Israel. That policy has shifted to nothing short of utter delusion and antipathy. Minister Wong claimed, “we need to build the pathway out of the endless cycle of violence”. I ask Minister Wong: where does she think the violence stems from?
Is it from Israel, the Middle East’s only free economy and functional democracy? Or is it the listed terror groups to their north and south who have called for Israel’s annihilation since the very start?
Either Labor is playing politics with Australia’s foreign policy in a calculated and cynical move to protect their inner-city electorates. Or they are deluded in thinking that a two-state solution on the back of a barbaric massacre is the solution for peace.
If it’s a mater of politics, we can’t be surprised. Their mixed messages on Israel reflect a pattern of policy emerging in Australia’s relationship with China.
If it’s a genuine attempt at peace, then it is fundamentally misinformed and ignorant of the most prominent junctures in history. You cannot reward a massacre with statehood. You cannot legitimise a terrorist organisation with sovereignty.
The reality is that this conflict would end today if Hamas unconditonally surrendered, released its hostages and shut down its terrorist network.
And a long-term two-state solution is only an illusion for as long as Hamas – a listed terror group in Australia – remains in power. A two-state solution is a delusion for as long as Iran and its allies fund and foment terror in the Middle East.
The bloodshed today began on October 7. If you want someone to blame, look to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Look to every nation standing by while antisemitism and political violence are excused because of ignorance and antipathy.
The Jewish people have called Israel home for several thousand years – long before the British partition, the Roman crusades, the birth of Islam, and the even the Persian Empire.
In 1947, the UN proposed the Two State Solution. The Arab states responded with the 1947-48 Civil War.
In 1988, the Hamas Charter – its founding document – rejected a two-state solution, stating that the conflict will not be resolved except through jihad.
In 1994, the Cairo Deal was met with a campaign of suicide bombings from Hamas. In 2000, the Camp David Summit bordered on peace but ultimately led to Arafat’s Second Intifada.
Every single two-state peace plan has been met with Palestinian rejectionism, political violence, and innocent Jewish blood. Every offer of a truce has failed to recognise Israel’s right to exist.
While Palestine accepts tyrants’ money to fund widespread terror, the world chooses to blame Israel for maintaining its Indigenous connection to land, its sovereignty and security.
While the ideals of Auschwitz bubble away in Palestine and Iran, apathy has enthralled the Global North. They invoke the horrors of a fabricated Apartheid against one of the world’s most culturally diverse nations to justify Iran’s atempted genocide.
Let’s not forget that it was Iran’s Ahmedinejad who, in speaking at the UN’s Durban Review Conference on Racism, claimed that Zionism (the movement to protect the Jewish nation of Israel) is the root of racism. 9 years later, a motion at the United Nations to condemn Hamas for their indiscriminate rocket atacks and bombings against the Jewish people was rejected.
As former Israeli President Shimon Peres said, “Nazism has been crushed but antisemitism is still alive. The gas has evaporated, but the poison remains”.
The west’s moral authority wanes with every unsubstantiated claim it levels at Israel, and with every moment it fails to take responsibility for its failure to prevent violence against the Jewish people.
Auschwitz Survivor Sam Kaltman said, “The Holocaust manifested the veneer of civilization so thin and fragile that repetition was possible.”
In 1945, we swore “never again” after 6 million Jews and many others were murdered – including 1.5 million children.
We’ve educated generations about the horrors of World War II, mystified at how a civilised world could let it unfold. Yet nearly 80 years later, never again is happening again, and we seem entirely content – if not eager – to usher it in.
Antipathy, not atomic weapons, is the catalyst for conflict. Delusion, not dictatorship is the genesis of genocide.
Never again is now. Will Australia have the guts to stand up and be counted?
