It may well upset those elites who have used their positions to denigrate him, but only Donald Trump could have done this – ensure Hamas’s hostages are returned, and stop the Gaza war.

He did this by straight-talking to Egypt, and especially Qatar and Turkey: ‘You have the Hamas leadership in your countries. Now, you either force them, or pressure them, to accept this agreement.’

‘Or you remove them.’

He should have long ago received the Nobel Peace Prize for the superb tapestry of the Abraham Accords, as should John Howard for liberating East Timor. (I should disclose that  I was actively involved in nominations for both.)

Donald Trump  is clearly one of the foremost American presidents and free world leaders. He instinctively knows his role  is not to ‘manage decline’, be the ‘world policeman’ or wage long land wars.

He sees just part of his role to do what presidents don’t usually do.

A leading example is to tell shirkers among the allies, like Albanese, to  pull their weight in their defence.

A leader of his calibre is rare indeed.

What a tragedy FDR spoiled the future for other multi-term presidents.

There was one serious barrier to President Trump’s Peace Plan.

This was the dictator mullahs, whose bloodthirsty agenda is summed up in their diabolical chants ‘Death to the Little Satan, Israel’, and ‘Death to the Great Satan, the USA’.

As the nerve centre of world terrorism, without President Trump’s surgical bombing of the Tehran mullahs’ nuclear ambitions into eternity, the Peace Plan would not have  been viable.

To ensure their inevitable attempts to revive this evil never succeed, the best hope lies in a restoration of the monarchy under the Shah’s son, committed democrat Reza Pahlavi.

Meanwhile, the extraordinary claim by the Albanese government that their ‘recognition’ of a non-existent Palestinian state  somehow advanced the Peace Plan has been slammed by former treasurer, Josh Frydenburg, as ‘wrong, offensive’ and not standing up to ‘a second of scrutiny’.

This bizarre deviation from traditional bipartisan Australian foreign policy has been associated with an increasingly hostile  approach to Israel and a reserve towards the US. Contrast this with the continuous warmth and weakness shown to Beijing, despite their aggression.

In addition, the Albanese government, the most hard-left in Australian history, continues to apply the very two policies President Trump warns are country-destroying, all the while avoiding accountability by avoiding the truth, just as they did in the election over  the cost of nuclear energy and the claimed benefit of Medicare.

This truth avoidance has extended  to hiding the full cost of their extreme climate policy on families and on businesses.

Of the many that are being forced to close, a handful are being propped up by taxpayer-funded subsidies, at least until the heavy burden of increasing debt becomes unbearable.

It also extends to the serious  damage the government is causing to the environment, revealed by rainforestreserves.org.au on their excellent interactive map, much to the annoyance of Minister Bowen.

The other matter about which the Albanese government is destructive, as Donald Trump says, is in out-of-control immigration, which is causing an enormous burden on housing and infrastructure including hospitals, transport, water, etc.

Meanwhile, the Albanese government is presiding over an extraordinary rise in antisemitism in the country, a problem which began with governments abusing their immigration power by bringing into Australia those they knew would not accept our values. Once again, the government is avoiding  the truth here as they notoriously tried to hide the fact that they had assisted the return of the ‘Brides of Isis’ just as they admitted immigrants from Gaza when even Arab governments rejected them.

As this column has noted, antisemitism has been magnified by too many in the mainstream international English-speaking media, with the notable exception of the Murdoch media.

This has been best demonstrated by their total reliance on  Gaza  war casualty statistics fabricated by Hamas terrorists and claimed to be from an independent-sounding ministry of health .

Those statistics also ignore the fact that, of the armies of the world, none has proved more determined than Israel’s in minimising enemy citizen casualties.

With the war seemingly drawing to a close, the weekly scheduled demonstrations in Australian cities by crowds ranging from extreme Islamists through the naive, gullible and uninformed to pacifists are now superfluous.

Perhaps they could now draw their attention to the real and massive genocide against the Uighurs by Beijing, even to making them victims of an ‘on demand’ halal human organ trade. That is genocide. Yet they seem  determined not to let peace spoil their weekends of anti-Jew hatred.

Nevertheless, they must be thanked for insisting that their demand to profane the Opera House forecourt, no doubt again with abominations like ‘Gas the Jews’, be referred to the NSW Court of Appeal. That court sensibly pointed out an elementary conclusion  that had curiously escaped some judges. This is that disobeying a court’s decision that a demonstration is prohibited will obviously constitute contempt and be punishable.

In previous times, freedom of speech was fully exercised in Australia by the old tradition of speakers’ corners. Instead of interrupting traffic and people going about their lawful business, a speaker would mount a soapbox and regale an attentive crowd engaging in lively and at times even entertaining interjections.

By finding a constitutionally implied freedom of political communication which some fear stops states from legislating against demonstrations in certain places,  the High Court justices have unfortunately revealed certain prejudices.

The right to demonstrate on the Sydney Harbour Bridge about something alleged to be happening in the most democratic state in the Middle East may be protected, but not  handing out a pamphlet, holding a placard or openly praying in the statutorily forbidden zone around an abortionist’s practice.