As I’ve previously written, Andrew Hastie is fast emerging as the Liberals’ last-ditch chance to save themselves from the dustbin of history. Not least because, like Pauline Hanson who is skyrocketing up the polls in tandem with the Libs’ freefall, Hastie is garnering a reputation as a straight shooter. Not just literally, as a former SAS commander, but politically as well.
When Hastie mooted reviving Australia’s car industry, the elite chatterers hooted in derision. But his message appealed to voters who remember when Australia was a real country that actually made things. They also saw the strategic sense of the proposal: if you can make cars, you can make combat vehicles.
In a more recent Instagram post, Hastie tied together two hot-button issues, defence and immigration, in way guaranteed to make any leftist’s head explode.
“Important news story today, in case you missed it. The Palestinian Authority has called on ADF troops to be part of a Gaza peacekeeping force, and I’ve got pretty strong views on this. And here’s the deal…
“There should be no ADF troops into Gaza until the Palestinian refugees, the nearly 2,000 of them, go home. When it’s safe enough for our refugees to go home to Gaza, then it’s safe enough for ADF troops to follow them.”
Why, indeed, should Australians be asked to shoulder the risk of what thousands of ‘Palestinians’, many of them fighting-age young men, have conspicuously fled from?
Hastie’s comments speak to the exhaustion many Australians feel when it comes to laying down young lives to help foreign countries full of people who – on a good day – want to destroy Western Civilisation. It is the same reason international aid is rapidly losing its appeal. Look at UNRWA…
There is also a legitimate concern that ADF troops could be targeted by Hamas. Far from being disarmed, the terror group continues to command loyalty on the ground in Gaza. Many observers hold the strong suspicion that Hamas members intend to morph into the Palestinian Authority’s foot soldiers.
Do we really want to expose our ADF to kidnapping, serious injury, or death for… Palestine?
If Labor had their way, almost certainly.
They are keen to please. Palestine is an election-sensitive topic for Labor-held seats. 100,000 pro-Palestine activists marching over the Sydney Harbour Bridge chanting globalise the intifada! sent a message to the government, which responded by recognising Palestine as a state in defiance of our most important defence ally. This is obviously a voting cohort with clear policy demands and actionable power.
Even if Albanese doesn’t sacrifice Australian blood for ‘Palestine’, he’ll almost certainly be pouring plenty of our tax money into the Sisyphean task of pacifying the savages whose unrepentant hate saw it turned into a warzone.
The Albanese Government has already provided $150 million since October 7, and the end of the war is likely to see the spigots open further.
Providing aid without a change in attitude and behaviour in Gaza would be a monumental mistake and lay the groundwork for the next Gaza war.
Sure, the Allies poured vast sums into rebuilding Germany and Japan after WWII, even though they’d scarcely earned such largess, and transformed both almost miraculously into thriving, pacifistic democracies. But the people of Germany and Japan, notwithstanding the absolute barbarity of their war conduct, were at least civilised, well-educated and rational.
More importantly, the Allies learned the lesson of WWI and not taking the war home to Germany. The belligerents were not just made to feel the full weight of the war they’d unleashed, they were not allowed to set conditions on their surrender.
By contrast, Hamas have, astonishingly, been all-but allowed to dictate the terms of their ‘surrender’.
The troglodytes of Gaza are none of those. The average IQ of the place is at levels that would normally be classified as retarded. The only education they’ve had for generations is indoctrination in the most violent Islamic bloodthirstiness and Jew-hatred. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the fountainhead of modern anti-Semitism, is a bestseller. Under the benevolent auspices of the UNRWA, generations of schoolchildren have acted out how to kill Jews.
If students once again learn maths problems asking them to calculate how many ‘martyrs’ were killed, what hope is there for the future?
A chief contributor to radicalising Gazan children and prolonging the conflict is UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. No other people have a dedicated UN refugee agency, and no UN agency has failed as badly in its mission. Every other refugee crisis from the 1940s has long been solved. UNRWA textbooks have educated generations of Arab children to hate and imbued them with a false promise that they will ‘return’ to Israel, a place most have never set foot in.
UNRWA should be disbanded. Despite revelations that numerous UNRWA employees took part in atrocities on October 7, the Albanese government restored funding after just a short pause.
Worse, they’ve openly rewarded the savagery of Gazans, by rushing to recognise a so-called ‘Palestinian State’, in what is almost certainly a violation of international law.
The most meaningful contribution Australia could make toward peace in the Middle East would be to make it clear that we will not continue rebuilding Gaza after every war it initiates.
And absolutely not send Australians to do the job that Gazans refuse to do themselves. Nor invite these savages into our midst.
