I continue to hear calls for restraint, but can you imagine if it were 1,400 Australian citizens who were killed by weak men with guns, who kicked down the doors of their residents and murdered women and children and infants? Can you imagine the response that would be...
I understand that the people of Gaza will be suffering. If they have the ways and means to get out of there—I can’t see peace happening any time. I will just say that I personally condemn Hamas. I support Israel’s right to exist. It’s fundamental. We...
We can’t possibly condone what Hamas did. They force us into one position, which is to say, ‘You are evil people, you have done an evil act, and consequences must flow from this.’ But we hope that this issue is resolved, which means finalised, which...
The depravity and evil of Hamas knows no bounds, it would seem, with what they have done by taking hostages, including children, back into Gaza and by what they’re doing by using the innocent civilians of Palestine, as it would seem, as human shields....
Whilst this parliament stands for Israel, we must remember too that there are good people on both sides, the same as there are good Russians, who do not agree with the war their country is waging in Ukraine. We stand in solidarity with innocent people—with people...
