Andrew Hastie has made an interesting comment on his official Instagram page about the possibility of sending ADF troops into Gaza for peacekeeping.

‘Important news story today, in case you missed it. The Palestinian Authority has called on ADF troops to be part of a Gaza peacekeeping force, and I’ve got pretty strong views on this. And here’s the deal…

‘There should be no ADF troops into Gaza until the Palestinian refugees, the nearly 2,000 of them, go home. When it’s safe enough for our refugees to go home to Gaza, then it’s safe enough for ADF troops to follow them.’

Given the rapidly deteriorating situation, the topic may be null and void before a decision can be made, but the moral question is worth considering.

Hastie’s comments speak to the exhaustion many Australians feel when it comes to laying down young lives to help foreign countries full of people who – on a good day – want to destroy Western Civilisation. It is the same reason international aid is rapidly losing its appeal. Look at UNRWA…

There is also a legitimate concern that ADF troops could be targeted by Hamas. Far from being disarmed, the terror group continues to command loyalty on the ground in Gaza. Many observers hold the strong suspicion that Hamas members intend to morph into the Palestinian Authority’s foot soldiers.

Do we really want to expose our ADF to kidnapping, serious injury, or death for … Palestine?

It might happen under Labor.

They are keen to please. Palestine is an election-sensitive topic for Labor-held seats. 100,000 pro-Palestine activists marching over the Sydney Harbour Bridge chanting globalise the intifada! sent a message to the government which responded by recognising Palestine as a state in defiance of our most important defence ally. This is obviously a voting cohort with clear policy demands and actionable power.

In the UK, Labor ministers who tried to dismiss Palestine and fight for local causes found themselves challenged by Islamic parties and candidates. According to reports, there are hundreds of Muslim councillors within the UK. These councillors are breaking away from their Labour base, ditching progressive talking points in favour of religious fundamentalism, and taking voters with them.

Prioritising foreign interests, such as the Palestinian cause, has been normalised under the banner of multiculturalism, but we have to realise how un-Australian and seditious this trend has become. Very soon we will have hapless politicians trying to keep Arab, Indian, and Chinese migrant communities happy despite unsolvable unrest in their home nations. Our streets could become a surrogate conflict zone at the expense of peaceful Australians whose voices are being drowned out.

This is not wild speculation, there have already been scuffles and in the UK … major disturbances. A wise politician would exclude foreign talking points and bring all policies back to Australia to remove the temptation to play cheap identity politics. If people can only vote for Australian policies, they vote in the interests of Australia by default.

We cannot have Australian interests pushed aside for foreign interests and our politicians left beholden to unstable and dangerous regimes.

Labor has been interventionalist when it comes to the demands of Palestine.

So far, the only lesson Hamas has learned is that when they go on a rampage, the Western Left will play their people off as victims. Their terrorism is re-written as resistance and their colonisation falsified as indigeneity. Meanwhile, Western university students take to the streets cheering on a global intifada that wants them dead while being unable to identify which river or sea their banners represent.

Historians predicted that propaganda would become more difficult in an age of information, but they failed to factor in human laziness and the vanity of groupthink.

In any case, the Labor government has confirmed that one ADF liaison officer will be sent to partake in a US-led operation based in Israel. Their role, according to government sources, will involve ‘planning and coordination’ in relation to humanitarian projects and security. This would be ‘in line with our efforts to participate in the peace process that President Trump has negotiated’.

Speaking to Sky News Australia shortly after the announcement, Shadow Assistant Minister for Treasury, Dave Sharma, said: ‘It’s important that Australia plays a role in the stabilisation of that part of the world and historically we have done so. Whether it’s troops in the Sinai, people in Lebanon, people on Golan Heights, the ADF has played a role there. Never mind the fight against ISIS about a decade ago. I would say a contribution of one person, though, strikes me as quite small and quite insignificant.’

He then said that ‘Australia could play a more meaningful contribution towards an international effort to stabilise and help Gaza recover’.

Plenty of voices from both sides of the political fence have spoken up in support of the ADF engaging in a larger peacekeeping role, but Australia is growing weary of the ‘Western saviour’ narrative that dominated last century and saw far too many Australian lives sacrificed to the Middle East and its unending violence.

Of more concern to the average Australian is keeping this country safe and that means sending back many of the refugees and migrants to their homelands, especially those who have failed to integrate into Western culture, live at the expense of the taxpayer, or have committed crimes.

Sending Gazans home is high up on the list of things people would like to see, especially after the dodgy way in which the Labor government obscured the return of ISIS Brides, more correctly described as female members of the Islamic terrorist state.

Labor is reluctant to send the Gazans back and aid organisations across Australia are fighting to keep them here in direct violation of the terms given to the Australian people.

Temporary means temporary.

Rubble or not, Labor declared Palestine to be a real state. Statehood means that its people should be returned to help rebuild.

Instead, as late as the end of September, Tony Burke was still bringing in about 50 new refugees from Gaza. As reported by Sky News Australia, ‘The cohort that arrived on Friday night was met by an enthusiastic Mr Burke.’

Tony, Tony, Tony… You have to send them back.

Hastie is right, the refugees should go home. Palestine statehood has been granted. Peace has been achieved. The Palestinian Authority will need every able hand to help them rebuild.