Australia’s agonizing choice has been made.
Stephen Smith: "Don't mention The Wall!"
Earlier I reported on the Rudd Government’s Foreign Policy dilemma: either show enough independence from the Zionist mafia to merit a place on the UN Security Council – or poodle along, as usual, following Israel right or wrong to the Gates of Hell.
Yesterday, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith announced the ‘no surprises’ decision. Groveling acceptance of Israel’s anti-Gentile supremacist policies is a hard habit to break. Too hard, on this occasion.
Neither Prime Minister Mr Rudd, nor the smooth Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, have any track record of saying boo to a goose – when the goose in question is the rogue State of Israel. Their latest decision has maintained an unbroken record of pandering to the pugnacious nuclear-armed regime increasingly viewed by ordinary people as the gravest threat of all to world peace.
The Apartheid Wall at Bethlehem
Smith’s media release puts the official spin on why Australia will boycott the Durban Review Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held in Geneva between 20th and 24th April. It complains about “suggestions of some delegations in the Durban process to limit the universal right to free speech”.
That’s a little rich, coming from a Government trying to censor the Internet, whose own ‘Human Rights’ machinery is abused to restrict free speech.
Anyhow, it’s nonsense. The Australian government has no real concerns on that score; if it did, active participation at the Durban Review Conference would be a much more effective counter-strategy.
Here’s the tortuous paragraph in Smith’s media release that alludes to the Rudd Government’s real ‘concerns’:
Australia… cannot support a document which reaffirms the 2001 Durban Declaration and Program of Action in its entirety – as is currently the case. The 2001 Declaration singled out Israel and the Middle East. Australia expressed strong concerns about this at the time. The Australian Government continues to have these concerns. Regrettably, we cannot be confident that the Review Conference will not again be used as a platform to air offensive views, including anti-Semitic views.
Ah, that’s more like it. It’s not about free speech… It’s about not having to listen to nasty speech.
Nasty speech is hearing that Israel is an apartheid regime, which treats Palestinians as second-class citizens (if they’re allowed back in at all).
Gaza in Ruins: Israel hates to hear complaints, which can cause offense
It’s nasty speech to be told that Australia’s little ‘ally’ has nuclear weapons and other WMDs in copious quantities, is reported to have used chemical and biological weapons on various occasions – and has never allowed international inspection of these weapons of mass murder.
It’s nasty speech to be informed that Israel operates aggressive spy operations around the world in countries, such as Australia, that are supposedly allies.
It’s nasty speech to be reminded this 61-year old state has never defined its own boundaries (the UN did that, but the Zionists ignored the internationally-agreed partition plan and seized 78% of Palestine in 1948)
It’s nasty speech when people point out that Israel has been in a state of perpetual war since it’s inception and is digging itself a deeper hole with every year that goes by.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Barak: dressed as a women on a 1970s murder spree in Beirut; brags about it on TV
It’s nasty speech to have it pointed out that the real and demonstrable threat to Australians’ free speech is not the opinions of Arab or Muslim leaders, but the smothering grip of a censorious Zionist Lobby, whose power and machinations is typically a no-go zone for the Australian mass media and political elite.
It’s nasty speech to hear that key members of the Israeli cabinet (as well as its Opposition in the Knesset) are State-sanctioned murderers, who’ve personally carried out assassinations, illegal under international law, in their past.
It’s nasty speech to be assured that if a new hot war breaks out in the middle east – dealing a hammer blow to a world economy already reeling – it’s a virtual certainty Israel will have planned and provoked it, yet again.
This is collateral damage from an Israeli Defense Forces surgical strike: it's 'Hate Speech' to blame Jews
It’s nasty speech to be told the Rudd Government is a cowardly, conformist disgrace that puts the interests of an apartheid State half a world away before the interests of the Australian people as a whole.
It’s nasty too to hear that Australia’s official Opposition is just as pathetic – and even the Australian Greens aren’t far behind.
No wonder the folk who give Rudd orders don’t want bureaucrats from Foreign Affairs hanging around Geneva coffee shops, listening to nasty speech like that…
Fortunately they can read it here instead, although Senator Conroy is working on a fix for that…
