At 6.29 am on October 7, nearly 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded the State of Israel unleashing one of the most heinous attacks in living memory. Not since the pogroms and massacres of the Nazi holocaust have we seen the kind of demonic hate perpetrated by Hamas and its tyrannical sponsors and allies.

Much has been said of the limited chatter surrounding the attack, which came to the shock of a fierce and expansive international intelligence community. I disagree. I think that the chatter was abundant, patent, and visible to the average Joe.

The rise of antisemitism and antisemitic attacks – in Parliaments and on platforms alike – has been reported for months. Even in my quiet and conservative community of the Sunshine Coast, we’ve seen white supremacists letter-boxing to recruit new members and Nazi symbols emblazoned on public facilities. The extremism has been bubbling over unreported and unaddressed.

For months, the most basic open-source intel has demonstrated that Israel and Jewish people the world over were at a significantly heightened risk of terror. And with Biden’s America occupied with trying to keep a presidency afloat and an election on track, it’s no wonder that Iran and their so-called ‘axis of resistance’ took the opportunity to attack.

The international community has categorically failed in its responsibility to protect Israel. The United Nations, formed out of the wreckage of the second world war, has broken its pledge ‘to never again allow atrocities like those of that conflict to happen’.

For months, we’ve called on the UN to finally recognise that Israel is confronting an existential threat in Hamas and its allies, Hezbollah and Iran. Instead, we read allegations that UN staff are directly involved.

UN Women have turned a blind eye to the horrific sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women. While commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Jewish women have confronted the most heinous of abuse. As many Israeli women have decried: #MeToo, unless you’re a Jew, right?

Where are the UNHCR or UNRWA when Palestinian Christians, Jews, and minority Muslim residents are oppressed and dispossessed?

While a terror group – elected to government in Gaza – killed kids, slaughtered students, and employed rape as a weapon of war, the UN Secretary-General was gallivanting around Antarctica talking about global warming. Not unlike our Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, he was anywhere but where he needed to be.

The international bureaucracy, ever stumbling over its own feet, only perpetuates the issue. They are complicit in the assault on Israel and the Jewish people. The UN Human Rights Council has condemned Israel 45 times – almost half of the country-specific resolutions. Only Israel has a recurring Agenda Item. What about Iran? Russia? North Korea?

With global human rights icons like Sudan, China, and Somalia sitting on the Human Rights Council, it’s no wonder why. And with China and Russia sitting as permanent members of the UN Security Council, it’s not hard to see why the United Nations continues to isolate Israel and honour Hamas.

These apologists of terror and tyranny, who have revelled in the slaughter of innocent Israeli children, are the same who celebrated the decimation of Ukrainian communities by Russian forces just 22 months ago.

Australians, ever-defiant and distrusting of government, know that politicking and bureaucracy are more often than not stumbling blocks to better outcomes. The UN, with all their competing interests and corrupting influences, makes that abundantly clear.

For too long, Israel and the Jewish people have borne the brunt of Islamic extremism, white supremacy, and the vilest shades of hate – and increasingly in the 75 years since independence in 1948.

On October 6, Israel commemorated 50 years since the Yom Kippur War, when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, supported by six Arab nations and both Cuba and North Korea. On December 9, Israel remembered the lives lost in Palestine’s First Intifada, which only ended 30 years ago. On December 27, Israel will reflect on the Gaza War of 2008.

This pattern of aggression against Israel, and the double standard imposed by the international system, has gone unchallenged for too long. It foments distrust, division, and discord.

In its hour of need, however, the Australian government has fundamentally failed our democratic partner, Israel.

On one hand, Labor have recognised Israel’s right to defend itself. Yet, just a few weeks ago, the federal government supported the UNGA in their resolution calling for a ceasefire. We have mixed messages from each-way Albo, our Prime Minister who is ever missing in action or missing the point.

This is the same Prime Minister who is warming relations with China as Beijing’s ‘pretty boy’, calling out China’s aggression as Tuvalu’s saviour, and insisting he is Washington’s best friend in defence and security.

Mr Albanese needs to understand the old adage that ‘a friend to all, is a friend to none’.

Once again, terrorists in Palestine, aided by foreign partners and abetted by a misinformed and muted international community, have attempted to destroy the nation of Israel, and devastate the Jewish people. And once again, Israel will triumph.

What remains unclear is which side the Albanese government is really on.

Jak Hardy JP(Qual) is a political advisor, chaplain, and international development consultant based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.