How many of the demonstrators chanting ‘From the river to the sea’ and  ‘Death, death to the IDF’ understand and appreciate that the Gaza war is a matter of life and death for the world’s only Jewish state?

How many realise the Jewish homeland was established over 3,000 years ago in Palestine, a name chosen by the Roman conquerors, or that the region was conquered by the Arabs only after the Jews had been there for over 1,600 years?

Or that between the world wars, there was considerable Arab immigration into the Palestine mandate, mainly attracted there by Jewish-initiated economic activity, but that as the second world war approached, the British significantly restricted  Jewish immigration.

Or that, without oil or mineral wealth, the Jewish people have created in Israel a sophisticated and advanced society, which is a major contributor to the sciences and the arts and, as well, a significant military power, probably the most attentive in the world to avoiding civilian casualties.

Or that Israel offers its non-Jewish citizens, including Muslim Arabs, equal legal rights, including voting rights in the Middle East’s most democratic state.

Now we are told Hamas, despite cruelly and brutally starting the Gaza war, is winning the propaganda war – not so surprising when we recall, as demonstrated here last week, the world’s mainstream media (CNN, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, AP and ABC Australia) are pumping out Hamas propaganda as uncontested truth.

We should compare the actions of Israel with the Western powers when they were involved in a struggle threatening their own very survival, the second world war. This resulted in massive enemy civilian losses without the Americans and British taking the measures the IDF does to minimise them. The Allies required the Nazis and Imperial Japanese to surrender unconditionally, just as Israel must in relation to Hamas. They also agreed on drastic border and population changes, with 10 to 12 million Germans moved from Eastern and Central Europe, something Israel has not done.

The Allies required regime changes resulting in a democratic West Germany, a communist East Germany and Imperial Japan turning into a constitutional monarchy.

In Gaza, regime change is unavoidable. (On that, only about 40 per cent of the world’s 195 countries allow the people to choose their government. In the others, they have to change the regime, the subject of a coming ACM event: https://events.humanitix.com/regime-change)

The changes the Allies made contrast with Israel’s unconditional 2003 departure from Gaza.

What happened demonstrates the futility, indeed, the stupidity of suggesting a two-state solution. The notoriously corrupt Palestinian Authority was defeated in a Gaza election in 2006 by Hamas, leading to a violent conflict between them. Once ensconced, Hamas began firing rockets into Israel, unsurprisingly attracting a strong military response. Hamas imposed a brutal dictatorship, stole billions of dollars worth of aid, built an underground fortress and endowed a life of luxury in Qatar for their corrupt leadership. That’s what happens when a two-state solution is attempted.

Apart from enjoying the fruits of corruption, Hamas today exists only to destroy Israel, killing Gazans when it advances the cause. Gaza has demonstrated that acquiescing in a two-state solution requires the mass-suicide of the Jewish people.

Remembering what the Allies approved during the second world war, this column suggested last week that the wealthier Arab nations should assist the relocation of those Arabs who do not want to live in a Jewish state. With those unhappy moving elsewhere, and with Iran under the control that President Trump has imposed, the Middle East would certainly be a quieter, safer and happier place.

Meanwhile, whatever camouflage it adopts, the most hard-left government Australia has ever had continues to undermine the US alliance, and pointlessly damages the long-standing, close relationship with Israel forged by Labor leader, ‘Doc’ H.V. Evatt, as president of the UN General Assembly.

As it does this, it moves closer to Beijing and allows Hamas supporters to immigrate to Australia, something the Trump administration thinks too dangerous to allow, as incidentally, do most Arab governments.

Little wonder that antisemitism is such a growing and serious problem in Australia.

The reality is that just as the Americans and the British had no alternative in the second world war but to insist on the unconditional surrender of the enemy, so Prime Minister Netanyahu has no alternative but ensure the unconditional surrender and dissolution of Hamas.

According to reliable intelligence, the only international effect of those impotent Western leaders like Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and Mark Carney threatening to recognise a non-existent Palestinian state has been to strengthen the resolve of Hamas, which had been close to accepting a ceasefire.

So why has Anthony Albanese rushed to join these weak appeasers, and while too terrified to arrange a White House meeting because he might be exposed, why did he speak to and secure a meeting with multi-millionaire PLO boss, Mahmoud Abbas?

Why is he joining those who follow a mainstream media that relies totally on Hamas to proclaim Israel the villain in the Gaza war?

And why is he joining those moral cowards who lack the courage and honesty to condemn the one government committing genocide, on an industrial scale, against Muslims?

In addition to re-education camps, forced labor and sterilisations, and torture and abuse imposed on the more than 12 million Uighurs, there is clear evidence that Beijing has extended to them the evil trade on demand it established in 2006 for organs, hearts, livers kidneys and corneas from the murder annually of tens of thousands of innocent, healthy Falun Gong practitioners.

This was done to satisfy a niche ‘halal’ market trade in human organs for wealthy Muslims who prefer ‘donors’ who abstain from pork and alcohol, aligning with Islamic dietary laws.

And this is the regime Mr Albanese clearly prefers to fraternise with over our longtime ally, the United States.