Pardon My French

The Australian Labor Party conference is now in full swing and, according to this week's Australian Jewish News, frontbencher Tony Burke "is expected to propose a resolution stating that if 'there is no progress to a two-state solution, and Israel continues to build and expand settlements, a future Labor government will consult like-minded nations towards recognition of the Palestinian state'." (Labor Party set to debate Palestine recognition, 24/7/15)

Will consult like-minded nations?

That's it? That's the whole f*****g enchilada?

You have got to be f*****g joking?!!!

Here it is 2015, and we've had almost 100 f*****g years of Zionist predation in Palestine. Jesus Christ, there's barely any of it left in Palestinian hands!

Most Palestinians are still living in exile, warehoused now for 67 f*****g years.

And most of the rest have been living under military occupation for nigh on 48 f*****g years.

One lot are even bombed mercilessly every few f*****g years just to show them who's boss.

But consulting with like-minded nations is the best Labor can come up with?!!!

And even that's going too f*****g far for the hardcore Zionist fanatics in the Labor cult:

"Meanwhile, a leading group within the ALP - comprising Melbourne Ports MP Michael Danby; Mike Kelly, foreign affairs adviser to Shorten; shadow-attorney general Mark Dreyfus; shadow defence minister Stephen Conroy; and former NSW Labor Council secretary Michael Easson - is believed to be working on a formula to minimise a proposed change of direction by the ALP on Palestinian statehood." (ibid)

It's a Family Affair

One thing always leads to another on the internet. While looking for something else, I stumbled on this:

"The Israel-Palestine conflict has been going on for years and will probably continue for many years to come. There's almost a sibling rivalry between the two. Little Palestine hassles and taunts Israel, coming into his room every morning to flick him in the face. Unsurprisingly, Israel punches him in the face one morning, and we all know who ends up getting the sympathy from mum and dad."

Now I've seen some truly revolting takes on this subject in my time, but this little reverse-reality fable is up there with the best of the worst. The kind of quality blindness that has gone into something like this doesn't come easily, however. Brainwashing from birth and an astonishing reluctance, bordering on fear, to think things through, are required. I'm reminded of Bertrand Russell's adage: Some people would rather die than think.

It comes from an article by a certain Louise Easson, Warning: may contain traces of bombs, and was published in a Sydney University student paper called The Bull (2-8/6/08). The blurb reads: "Louise Easson explains the phenomenon of travel in dangerous, war-torn countries."

Now Ms Easson is a scion of Labour royalty. Her father, Michael, was once a NSW ALP senior vice-president. Her mother, Mary, was the ALP member for the federal seat of Lowe from 1993 to 1996. This rather too-close-for-comfort relationship with a Zionised ALP (Louise even worked for Kristina Keneally the year after the above was written!) goes a long way to explaining the above comment. Add to that the fact that Mary Easson, and Louise's sister, Amanda, were part of the entourage, led by then foreign minister Kevin Rudd, which flocked to Albert Dadon's Australia Israel Leadership Forum in Jerusalem in 2010, and you've got even more of the jigsaw.

But the clincher, which really complete's the picture, has got to be a comment of Mary Easson's on Israel's illegal West Bank wall, made after accompanying a Young Labor delegation, including Amanda, to Israel in 2007: "A wall in principle sounds like a terrible thing, but you go and see it and you think, 'Oh well, yeah, I can see why you would need that.'" (See my 30/3/09 post I've been to Israel too...)