Frank wrote on Aug 14^th, 2025 at 2:25pm:


As relevant as your editorial, Soren.  What shame that it was full of bullshit.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

John Smith wrote on Aug 14^th, 2025 at 1:20pm:



It is an editorial, thick as mud hick, it was written by the editor.

John Smith wrote on Aug 14^th, 2025 at 5:37pm:



Editorials are written without a byline because everyone, even a dim 12 year old,  knows (but not you, of course, thicko as mince-o) that they are written by the editor or someone on the editorial board and they express the publication's, not a particular person's stance on the subject.

Go sweep up.

Frank wrote on Aug 16^th, 2025 at 3:49pm:


you can make up all the excuses for it that you like. No amount of tears from you changes the fact that the person hasn't put their name to it. 

There are very few words in the English language that adequately describe the treachery and lack of moral integrity of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Foreign Minister Penny Wong in their deciding to ‘recognise’ the non-existent state of Palestine. Betrayal? Sabotage? Deception? Disloyalty? Duplicity? Odious? None quite do the decision justice. So how about ‘wreckognition’ – the art of wrecking your own country, its values, its traditions, its loyalties and its alliances in order to appease those opposed to your Western way of life.

Ms Wong, increasingly it would appear, is the real power in this appalling government and her PM increasingly resembles a feeble-minded Renfield who eagerly does her worst bidding. This disgraceful recognition of Palestine was formulated by these two undergraduate socialists after stewing in a toxic brew of Chinese communism, classic hard-left cowardly Marxist appeasement, anti-Americanism, rampant antisemitism, revenge for the failed ‘Voice’ referendum, a desperation for some kind of ‘achievement’ to disguise their totally unimpressive legacy and, perhaps worst of all, a callous disregard for the entire Australian Jewish community, Labor supporters included. And all for what? To facilitate Labor’s tawdry grasping for more Muslim votes as it ramps up immigration to unprecedented levels.

Regardless of what one thinks of Israel, Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu or Palestinian activism, there is one inescapable and horrifying truth: Mr Albanese went ahead with ‘recognising Palestine’ despite head Hamas honcho Ghazi Hamad specifically applauding recognition by Western leaders as the ‘fruits of 7 October’. Let that sink in. This murderous butcher gloated to Al Jazeera that without the butchery, savagery, bloodshed, death and destruction of his horrific pogrom on innocent girls and boys at a music festival, on innocent families getting ready for the day with their kids, and without the ongoing torture of the hostages, no leaders in the West would have dared to take such a step. Yet Mr Albanese did precisely that. On a previous occasion, the same Hamad boasted that there will be October 7s ‘again and again and again’.

Australians need to wake up to the fact that Mr Albanese and Ms Wong are now, to all intents and purposes, aligned ideologically with our enemies ahead of our allies. Together these two have smashed decades of bipartisan Australian foreign policy, with no mandate to do so, spat in the face of not one but two of our most important allies, and knowingly done the bidding of the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians and the most extreme terrorist network in the world. Without batting an eyelid.

Let every jihadist, murderer, rapist, bomb-maker and knife-wielder rest assured in the blackest recesses of their hearts that no matter how appallingly they behave, on current form they have nothing to fear other than mild rebukes from the Albanese government.

There are no excuses. There is literally not one single serious political commentator in Australia or abroad who has put forward the argument that Australia’s (or France’s, or Britain’s, or Canada’s) recognition of Palestine will genuinely advance peace in the Middle East. This is left-wing performative, gesture politics at their most mocking; a callous excuse for the United Nations to ignore all the other wars and horrors around the world and instead devote this year’s entire UN session to lambasting Israel. No doubt this will take the form of calls for sanctions, an arms embargo and so on. Who knows what other treacheries are in store?

President Donald Trump will rightly ignore all this idiocy and, indeed, has shown repeatedly that his ‘peace through strength’ formula has achieved far more in six months than the UN has in six decades.

As a further irony, Mr Albanese’s pathetic woke virtue-signalling was almost certainly the final straw (coming hard on the heels of the disgraceful Sydney Jihadists Bridge March) that drove home the truth to the Israeli government that pandering to weak Western governments only brings more misery whilst delaying the inevitable military showdown. That misery is felt most keenly by, obviously, the hostages, their long-suffering loved ones, and those Gazans who do not support the disgusting actions of their overlords.

The joke is that it was only because of the likes of Ms Wong carping on about ceasefires that Israel was hesitant about finishing off the job months ago. Now those same voices – and many more, including shamefully from the right – are demanding a swift end to the ‘conflict’ because it has ‘dragged on too long’ and it is ‘time to bring it to an end’. Hopefully Israel’s government has come to the conclusion that you listen to these hand-wringing Western armchair generals at your peril.

‘Timing’ is for comedians. Completing the job and annihilating the source of evil is what those who are unjustly attacked are morally obliged to do, no matter how long the job may take.