Make no mistake: we saw last Saturday some of the most heinous crimes conducted against innocent people. That’s innocent men, women and children, but the crimes against the women and children are, I think, the most utterly heinous the world has ever seen since...
Let me be clear: Hamas is a terrorist organisation. The atrocities it committed in Israel are war crimes, including the horrific and indiscriminate slaughter of entire Jewish communities. The taking of hostages, elderly civilians as well as children and infants, is a...
People should not let sympathy for the Palestinians’ legitimate aspiration for statehood, which is a very legitimate aspiration and one that I share—I share the aspiration for a state of Israel and a state of Palestine that are free and secure, alongside each...
We must do everything we can to save the lives of nonbelligerents, but let’s face facts. Hamas did not give days of warning to the babies that were killed, the women that were raped, the grandmothers that were burned and the hostages taken—nothing like that....
Just a week ago, the Sydney Opera House and this very building were lit up in blue and white, a symbol of the undifferentiated position this government takes on this conflict. The world and the Australian government is portraying this as an assault on the Israeli...
