Bob Carr’s latest speaking gig has raised quite a few eyebrows. J-Wire website, Monday:
Former NSW premier and federal Australian foreign minister Bob Carr has been billed as a dignitary on an advertisement promoting an event in Sydney commemorating the 70th anniversary of Al-Nakbah (Occupation of Palestine) and the “Palestinians’ Right of Return to their Land”.
Carr was set to headline the Palestinian event with poet Ahmad Al- Kandari. The poet at a student rally in Kuwait, March 29, 2010:
We are the soldiers of Hamas, and jihad is our path … we will never recognise Israel.
Uh oh. The former foreign minister on Twitter, Monday:
Proud to be commemorating the 70th anniversary of the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians when I speak in Western Sydney on May 12.
This is a message to the Zionists … Say to Zion: We have brought slaughter upon you, and we shall watch you dying. You will encounter our army of Al-Qassam, for whom death serves as a cloak.
Read the ‘cut and paste’ article in The Australian (subscription required).