TALK about cutting it fine. Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop left it to the last possible moment to do something truly memorable in 2016, but that’s all the more reason to praise them for it. At least they both go into the new year with a worthy achievement under their respective belts.
Just hours before the harbour in front of the Turnbull residence erupted into fireworks, our Prime Minister said something we should all pop the champagne corks for: he stood firm on a matter of principle and morality.
Speaking at a candle-lighting ceremony in Sydney’s Central Synagogue on Friday, Turnbull made a point of condemning the insidious UN Security Council resolution from the week before, one of the most revolting resolutions the discredited organisation has ever passed.
This was the resolution sponsored by the Marxist Venezuelans along with the Muslim Malaysians and Senegalese in cahoots with, of all people, our idiotic Kiwi cousins. The resolution, a bizarre and vitriolic attempt to give Barack Obama some kind of “legacy” in the dying days of his woeful presidency, makes parts of Jerusalem, including the centuries-old “Jewish Quarter”, not part of Israel. It also makes the Wailing Wall – the holiest place in Judaism – not legally part of Israel and therefore not Jewish.
Read the full article by Rowan Dean at The Courier Mail.