Penny Wong wants a two-state solution, but the reality is Gaza is looking more like the US quagmire in Iraq
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In August 1982, following a 14-hour bombardment of West Beirut by Israel, then-US president Ronald Reagan told Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to end his “holocaust” against Lebanon. Speaking with an air of resignation and after long, senior careers in the American military, some US observers note that the Israeli Defence Force now mimics America’s missteps in Iraq.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has, for much of the crisis in Gaza, viewed it through a domestic lens.The first reason for doing so is his ongoing fear of being wedged by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
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