Something is seriously wrong with Australia’s foreign policy when it is praised by a band of blood-thirsty terrorists and condemned by the United States. Yet that is where Prime Minister Albanese, Foreign Minister Wong, and Immigration and Home Affairs Minister Burke have taken the country.

Senator Wong joined a throng of 27 other nations eager to parade their moral vanity on the world stage by condemning Israel for defending itself against the terrorist regime on its doorstep, openly dedicated to its destruction.

No wonder their statement was a hit with Hamas. The Foreign Ministers parroted, almost word for word, the terrorists’ propaganda.

The Foreign Ministers, for example, declare, ‘It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid,’ as if Israel is to blame. Hamas noted the comment with great delight in a press release published by the Houthis, Iran’s proxy militia in Yemen, adding that it ‘underscores the brutality of this system and its criminal goal of killing and humiliating Palestinians’.

When it comes to killing and humiliating Palestinians seeking food aid, Hamas knows whereof it speaks. Hamas terrorists were recently filmed marching Gazan civilians stripped down to their underwear, and beating them, for the ‘crime’ of ‘collaborating with Israel’ because they accepted food aid from a humanitarian foundation, run by the US and Israel.

In another recent video published online, residents in the Muwasi humanitarian zone chant: ‘Stop the war, we want to live. Leave us alone, Hamas.’

Yet the joint Foreign Ministers’ statement offers just one perfunctory line about Hamas: a call to release hostages held since 7 October. No mention of Hamas launching the war with a massacre of horrific barbarity, rejecting ceasefires, embedding fighters among civilians, stealing food aid for its fighters and apparatchiks and hoarding it or selling it at grossly inflated prices on the black market, or firing thousands of rockets at Israeli towns and kibbutzim. No mention of its persecution of dissenters, or its theocratic, genocidal charter. No mention of ongoing Iranian and Qatari support.

By contrast, the Foreign Ministers frame Israel as the chief violator of international humanitarian law. They label Israel’s aid delivery model ‘dangerous’, accuse it of ‘drip-feeding’ assistance, condemn its ‘inhumane killing of civilians seeking food and water’ and call Israel’s ‘denial of essential humanitarian assistance’ unacceptable, urging it to lift aid restrictions immediately.

Hamas was thrilled. It praised the statement’s emphasis on allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza through the United Nations and humanitarian organisations because those agencies are stuffed with Hamas terrorists and their foreign sympathisers.

It welcomed the Foreign Ministers ‘condemnation’ of the ‘starvation policy pursued by the Israeli occupation’, which constituted ‘a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law’.

Yet Israel has approved over 4,500 trucks of aid in the past two months. Roughly 950 truckloads are waiting inside Gaza – not held up by Israel but because agencies have not retrieved them due to Hamas pressure, looting, road blockages, and ongoing fighting.

Hamas said the condemnation of the Foreign Ministers was ‘further international recognition of the wide-scale violations committed by the fascist occupation government against innocent civilians, including the deliberate starvation policy that has already claimed the lives of over 70 children and threatens a mass-death catastrophe due to famine.’

Let’s be clear. There is only one fascist government in Gaza; the one run by Hamas, which maximises civilian deaths, then inflates the toll and pins the blame on Israel, a task it accomplishes with extraordinary skill. In the grotesque Gaza ghoul show, this may be Hamas’s finest hour.

Burke told the ABC, ‘We’ve seen too many images of children being killed, of horrific slaughter, of churches being bombed’, claiming, ‘what we are watching on the other side of the world is indefensible.’

This is the Hamas line, as if terrorists are more trustworthy than the IDF, which goes out of its way to minimise civilian casualties. The Catholic church in Gaza wasn’t deliberately bombed; it was struck by shrapnel, and Israel immediately apologised.

‘The war in Gaza must end now,’ the Foreign Ministers insist without demanding that Hamas, which started it, surrender. Nearly every signatory has designated Hamas as a terrorist group and declared it unfit to govern Gaza. Yet they demand that Israel stop fighting while Hamas remains armed, in power, and unpunished. This isn’t a roadmap to peace; it’s carte blanche to inflict perpetual terror and the inexorable destruction of Israel.

The result of this perverse pronouncement is a moral inversion. Terrorism isn’t even treated as morally equivalent to self-defence – it’s treated as morally superior.

This exercise in moral grandstanding is Labor’s handiwork, but it has inspired enthusiastic one-upmanship in the Greens.

Outside Parliament House, they stood shoulder to shoulder with demonstrators who chanted, ‘Albanese, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide,’ and waved placards that called Netanyahu a child-killer and compared him to Hitler. Protesters draped in blood red robes carried white shriven mock baby corpses performing ideological kabuki. Inside the Senate chamber, Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi held up a sign declaring: ‘Gaza is starving. Words won’t feed them. Sanction Israel.’

Yes, Gaza is suffering, but this war began with Hamas’s October 7 massacre – a war of choice by a group that glorifies death, rejects coexistence, and seeks not to free Palestine but its total submission to strict sharia in a caliphate. Taqiyya – religiously sanctioned deception – is its weapon of choice that it wields with consummate skill. It is waging a war not just against the West but against memory in a post-truth era where terrorists are victims, democracies are villains, and antisemitism is social justice.

And while Hamas may be losing its grip on Gaza militarily, it is winning the war on truth, with a sinister mix of real corpses and shrouded dolls, BBC-Hamas co-productions, and endlessly inflatable rubbery statistics trotted out by the Gaza Ministry of Health and replayed in mainstream media outlets around the world.

To cap it off, Albanese and his ministers play the fools, joining their clownish counterparts in 27 Western governments to boo and hiss Israel, the pantomime villain, while the leaders of Hamas relax in the lap of luxury in Qatar, laughing at the buffoons and the bloodshed as they plot their next move.

Meanwhile, the slaughter of the Druze, the Christians and the Alawites by the Islamists in Syria continues almost without comment as it does in Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, and so on. Why should anyone care? As they say, no Jews, no news.