Listen to a caller to Jon Faine’s Morning Show where he is in the studio with Barrie Cassidy, a political commentator from the ABC’s Insiders program.
The caller questions why Australia bothers to have a close relationship with Israel, which in his opinion is really just a shitty, little country that wouldn’t ever come to our aid militarily and conversely why would we ever bother to back Israel either.
The crux of the commentary emerges when Faine poses a question as to why Australia cares about Israel and suggests that is just because there are Jews in significant number living here.
Sounds like we are harking back to the kind of remarks that Bob Carr made about there allegedly being a Jewish lobby in this country which strangles our government policy.