‘We side with our allies over terrorists’
Labor can’t seem to get enough of its silly games and threatening our global alliances
Israel is our closest ally in the Middle East. It shares our values of freedom and democracy.
Yet Labor’s Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong has thrown Israel under the bus by recognising Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources at the United Nations without negotiations as a precondition for peace.
This is despite the fact that Labor vilified former-Labor now-independent Senator Fatima Payman for seeking much less. Senator Payman crossed the floor to vote with the Greens to symbolically recognise Palestine as a state locally.
Both Labor and the Coalition voted this down.
Yet by recognising Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources in the disputed territories at the United Nations without negotiations, Labor has effectively gone further than Payman.
What an absolute joke this Albanese Government really is.
This gets worse as well. Foreign Minister Penny Wong has even refused to condemn the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s politically motivated arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But wait, it gets even worse. Labor still hasn’t come clean whether it had any input into the embarrassing diplomatic row with Israel over the denial of visa for former Israeli Minister of Justice and Minister of Interior Ayelet Shaked.
For the Coalition, the choice is clear. We side with our allies over terrorists.
At a time when antisemitism has risen to unprecedented scales and Jewish communities feel vulnerable, Labor can’t seem to get enough of its silly games and threatening our global alliances.
Senator Michaelia Cash is the Shadow Attorney-General.
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