Australian minister to fly to Israel to mend fractured relationship - Too little Too late
Netanyahu used social media last month to claim that an arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea, Victoria, could not be separated from the “extreme anti-Israeli position of the Labor government in Australia”
Netanyahu singled out the Australian government for its decision to 1.*reverse Australia’s diplomatic position on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories at the United Nations 2. and to deny ex-Israeli minister Ayelet Shaked a visa on grounds she could threaten social cohesion Shaked did make inflammatory statements
Netanyahu said,
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“Anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism”
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong responded in a speech days later by saying:
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It is not antisemitic to expect that Israel should comply with the international law that applies to all countries notterrorists
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1. Nor is it antisemitic to call for children and other civilians to be protected or 2. to call for a *two-state solution that enables Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security”
*The timing.... Rewardingterrorism
Originally Posted by Trojan
Israel is the only country in the world that has to defend itself, for defending itself, in their terrorists invasion of unprovoked brutal terror, monstrous, violent Guerilla warfare unleashed inside their borders
