The latest Spectator Australia is out now. No rabbits – neither among the columnists or in that Turnbull Government Budget.
Rowan Dean on the Turnbull Government’s disgraceful boycott of the opening of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem and its refusal to move our own embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital:
Worse, Mr Turnbull managed to compound one of the Left’s great lies: ‘Obviously, the status of Jerusalem and negotiations relating to Jerusalem are a key part of the peace negotiations, which we wish the very best for and which we support,’ he said.
No, Mr Turnbull. It is only the status of East Jerusalem that may potentially require negotiations in any peace deal, not Jerusalem itself.
Allan Gold:
By its failure to attend the American celebration for their new embassy, Australia’s government was tacitly saying that despite 70 years of existence as the modern State of Israel’s official capital, our government still didn’t recognise Jerusalem as the Jewish nation’s seat of government. And it was denying the three and a half thousand years – a thousand years before the birth of Jesus – that Jerusalem has been the home and heartbeat of Israel and its people.
Jerusalem is identified 669 times by name in the Old Testament, yet it isn’t mentioned even once in Islam’s Koran. It’s also true that since the rise of Islam in 632AD, Jerusalem has rarely been mentioned, either as a religious or social issue, among Islamic nations, except when its legitimacy is contested – for example, in the time of the Crusades, and since 1948 when the State of Israel was voted into existence by the United Nations.
Read the write-up by Andrew Bolt on his blog.