Are there no limits to the whoring the political and media elite won’t display towards Israel?
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lead a delegation to Israel next month as part of a bid to strengthen political, business and cultural ties between Australia and Israel.
The tour, organised by pro-Israel lobby group the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange, will include in the 40-strong delegation Liberal MPs Peter Costello, Christopher Pyne, George Brandis, Guy Barnett, Labor MP Mark Dreyfus, QC, Jewish scientists, academics, businessmen and women, plus conservative News Limited columnists Greg Sheridan , Andrew Bolt and Alan Howe.
Expect discussions about Israeli “democracy”, “rule of law”, “dedication to peace” and “Palestinian terrorism.”
Expect nothing about the reality of Zionist apartheid.
Even some previously pro-Israel politicians in the US are waking up.
Repeat after me – there is no such thing as the Israel lobby.
We vote for these fuckers to represent us, but for a few shekels – perhaps a tree grown on stolen land named after them – they bow down before a criminal state.
The lobby not merely buys a Prime Minister (they clearly had him sown up before his elevation and, with the yanks, gave him the nod (shades of Bob Hawke)), but they’ve bought off both sides of Parliament as well.
Only last night, our Foreign Minister SMith was on the box joining the anti North Korea bandwagon, noting that it had ignored a series of UN resolutions.
And Israel?
I am apoplectic with rage.
I look forward to the pollies written reports on their independent tour and inspection of the Gaza strip and investigations to see how the civilian Gazan’s can be helped with humanitarian food aid and medical care from Australia.
The Rudd Government’s continuing stance on the Israeli means to me that my national government is actively supporting a morally & intellectually bankrupt terrorist nation.
The refusal of Rudd & co to accept Hamas election in Gaza was clearly wrong on both moral & international law grounds. Further, Rudd’s refusal to recognise Hamas’s inalienable right to wage war against the Israeli invaders of the occupied territories, cannot be justified.
Hamas have made their views very clear. i.e. end the illegal blockade of Gaza, and either withdraw from the occupied territories forthwith OR begin negotiations with Hamas to that end, or face continued armed resistance. I SUPPORT HAMAS’S RIGHT TO WAGE WAR AGAINST THE INVADERS OF ITS TERRITORIES.
The SMH also confirm the passing of the far right Zionist baton in Oz from Mark Liebler to Arthur Dadon, whose credentails for the job are confirmed by his recent justification of the killing of women & children in Gaza.
I am one angry Australian voter, who will not vote for the Rudd Government again on principle.
Boycott Israel.
I’m dismayed, no I’m not, I’m appalled at this news.
I hope these politicians aren’t going as official representatives of the Australian government as, by their acceptance of this largesse, they signal Australia’s support for Israel’s intransigence. They have no mandate to hobnob with these apartheid loving crooks!
They must feel politically secure with their bi-partisan team. Talk about a culture of impunity…
I have an idea, perhaps they could stop off in Sri Lanka on the way home and suck up to President Mahinda Rajapaksa as well.
Perhaps, in the course of the “cultural exchange”, they can pick up a few tips about the culture of supremacism and ethnic cleansing that is rife in both countries and apply it here.
Which part of our culture will we be “exchanging” in the planned swap? The “fair go”?
Maybe, as part of the exchange, Barnett could distribute a few Christian tracts that mention the New Commandment, (love one another) to his hosts.