Last week, I spent a few days in Australia meeting with politicians and key policy makers.
Penny Wong needs a history lesson after citing debunked Hamas figures to support Labor's call for a two-state solution in Israel
The Foreign Minister opened with unverified statistics - 42,000 Palestinian deaths, including more than 13,000 children, and claims of two million people facing starvation.Independent analysts have revealed inflated and falsified data, with duplicated names and unverifiable entries.Israel has delivered more than one million tonnes of food and aid into Gaza, despite Hamas’s repeated interception and misuse of humanitarian supplies.No responsible leader should repeat their propaganda uncritically.
Wong drew an equivalence between Hamas and “Israeli extremist settlers”, sanctioning both in the same breath.Hamas is a terror organisation committed to genocide, while Israel is a democratic state with a robust legal system that prosecutes its own citizens when they break the law. Penny Wong undermines Australia's integrity on the global stage by quoting dubious and widely debunked statistics taken straight from Hamas, writes John Spencer. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman
Wong’s op-ed praised UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, for its humanitarian efforts.
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