Rejected again. Donald Trump has found a way to avoid meeting Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and it’s probably for the best.

Most accidental disagreements can be fixed with a coffee and a chat, but Albanese is hardly likely to charm the President with his wit.

Last week Albanese said he would ‘wait and see’ when it came to the Trump meeting, and then he went and drooled all over Palestine statehood like a greyhound that finally caught the furry animal. The Trump Administration has since turned up its nose and issued a warning about ‘punitive measures’.

The White House Press Secretary has confirmed that Albanese’s name is not on the coveted list for bilateral and multilateral meetings in New York.

Ouch.

This would make him an international laughing-stock and an ongoing concern for Australia’s national interest.

America is not only the leader of the free world and owner of the largest military force, it is our historical ally and sole protector in the Pacific against the rising security threat of China (which Labor, including state premiers have been unwisely cuddling up to).

Far from diversifying our investments to protect us from China’s habit of economic punishment, Labor has been tightening the collar around Australia while pushing away the only ally we have capable of defending our shores. Has Victoria debt-trapped itself to Beijing with batteries no one wants? We’ll see…

It is not as though the Prime Minister wasn’t warned.

Albanese was sent a letter ahead of his trip cautioning him that recognising the Islamic terrorist-held state of Palestine would have consequences for Australia.

Even Opposition Leader Sussan Ley managed to take a break from ‘listening’ to chastise the Prime Minister saying:

‘We should always stand up for Australia’s national interest, and that aligns us with our major ally, the US. We’ve got this long shopping list of issues to discuss, including our $386 billion Aukus deal, including the effect of the US tariffs on this country and possible tariffs down the track. That face-to-face meeting has not yet happened, and it’s not happening now.’

It’s hard to know what would happen if Albanese came face-to-face with Trump. Australia has a ‘shopping list’ while the President has a grievance list. A betting man would predict a Zelenskyy-esque humiliation and Albanese mentioning, at least once, that he’s a ‘housing commission boy’ while brandishing his Medicare card as a preacher wields the cross.

Labor is infatuated with the Palestinian cause, so let’s talk about Palestine.

It goes without saying that an Australian woman or member of the LGBTQ community could not walk through the streets of Palestine safely, such is the ideological and moral compatibility of its people. Personally, I have a problem with funnelling taxpayer money into this sort of place. It’s not free, after all, it was taken from the people of Australia who are struggling. Australians should keep that money.

As for its successive governments, Palestine has done nothing for Australia and will do nothing in the future, except export radicalism and encourage foreign states such as Iran to spread civil unrest on our streets.

Rewarding Hamas, who are still holding hostages, is not only absurd, it is dangerous.

And the Palestinian Authority are hardly angels waiting to save Palestine from Hamas.

Following Keir Starmer’s equally reckless decision to recognise Palestine, the Palestinian Authority demanded £2 trillion in reparations which they may have to pay because the United Nations loves nothing more than facilitating the transfer of wealth. Talk about funding terror.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has made this demand based upon ‘the value of the land which was under British rule between 1917 and 1948’.

Maybe it’s time for the whole of Europe to sue the Islamic world for its historic Caliphates. Then India might want a word, too.

Is our Labor government exposing Australian taxpayers to a similar economic risk?

What is this exercise in performative virtue going to cost the world?

The one thing we know for certain is that it won’t bring peace.

The next time Palestine wants something, it will take more hostages. Kill more kids at a festival. Dig more tunnels.

The demands for reparations shouldn’t surprise anyone. Palestine’s powerful friends have spent decades funding terrorism across the world and they, no doubt, want some of that money back. Where will these reparations go, I wonder? Iran?

Trump is right, the whole UN is a failed idea that needs to be dismantled.

As for the Labor government, it could not be more obvious that this insulting act is being done for domestic purposes.

Look what happened to the brave Italian Prime Minister, Giorgio Meloni, when she refused the demands of mostly foreign pro-Palestinian protesters.

They have been rioting. Destroying property. Attacking police. Intimidating citizens.

Are these the actions of a Palestinian regime that wants peace, solidarity, and statehood?

Are they acting like upstanding citizens that just want freedom?

No. Palestine and its allies are using threats of violence, just like Hamas, to frighten weak and feckless leaders.