Why, when Mr Albanese observed that Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, did he immediately blame the victim, Israel, for the denial of aid and the killing of civilians, including children?
He clearly relied on the word of the brutal, cruel, bloodthirsty, and lying terrorists of Hamas.
They are the ones who, in starting this war, filmed themselves torturing and killing their victims, even tiny babies.
Why did Mr Albanese not first privately ask our old ally, Israel, through diplomatic channels?
Why did he not consult our close ally, the USA, who is particularly well informed on these matters and is clearly disgusted by the Prime Minister’s behaviour?
Why did he instead publicly call on Israel to ‘comply immediately’ with her obligations under international law?
This was based on the assumption that our ally, the victim in this case, was guilty of breaches of international law.
The Australian government must surely have been embarrassed to have the letter it signed commended by the terrorists.
According to Seth Mandel, executive editor of the respected Washington Examiner and managing editor of Commentary, this is the first time since the war began that there are credible signs of hunger in Gaza.
There is, he reminds us, enough food in Gaza.
He even refers to IDF videos of ogre-like terrorists (posted on YouTube) gorging themselves on food.
Hitherto, they have stolen all the food and marked it up, selling it at high prices to the suffering Gazans.
He says that now the terrorists are intentionally starving those same people.
According to Mandel, nearly 1,000 aid trucks have passed through the Israeli inspection points and are sitting in Gaza with the food undistributed.
Trey Yingst from Fox News, has reported that the IDF offered the UN five different routes to distribute the aid, but the UN has not accepted any.
Israel has just decided on a breakthrough.
She will resume airdrops and establish specific ‘humanitarian corridors’ for UN convoys.
There are to be daily 10-hour ‘tactical pauses’ in military operations in three specific, densely populated areas of Gaza (Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah, and Gaza City).
The IDF is also connecting a power line to a desalination plant to address a critical water shortage.
The fundamental problem is that Hamas does not want to end the war.
Seeing how some in the West naively or maliciously are so ready to blame Israel, Anthony Albanses being an example, the terrorists believe that if the war goes on, Israel will suffer further blame.
Jonathan Schanzer, executive director of the Foundation for Defence of Democracies and contributing editor to Commentary, says Israel can now declare victory, and withdraw to and continue to enforce the demilitarised perimeter inside the Gaza Strip.
It can also maintain forces in the Philadelphi corridor along the border with Egypt, even keeping forces deployed in the Morag and Netzarim corridors that slice into Gaza territory.
Notwithstanding the posing of the French President, the two-state solution is dead and buried.
This war has demonstrated that leaving Gaza as part of a putative Arab state was, is, and will be nonviable.
But if Israel keeps a presence in Gaza, it can then strike as needed against imminent threats posed by Hamas, just as it does currently in places like Lebanon, Syria, or Judea and Samaria.
Controlling the land and sea borders surrounding Gaza, as well as the airspace, it enjoys full operational freedom.
Schanzer proposes that until all hostages are released, all Hamas leaders exiled to another country, all remaining rockets turned over for destruction and after the engineers have destroyed the tunnel system, no reconstruction whatsoever will be allowed.
Eventually, he believes, the people of Gaza will want to voice their frustration, and perhaps even act on it.
He says there are signs of this already.
Indeed, getting involved in a brutal urban war should be avoided.
He says that if, for some reason, this strategy fails to deliver results, Israel always has the option of putting more boots on the ground again and fighting on.
