Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not satisfied with Israel's seven war fronts over the last two years. He seems very determined to declare war on the entire world, and in the process drag the world's Jews, along with the State of Israel, into the abyss.
This week, it was the Australian prime minister's turn. A sharp diplomatic confrontation broke out between the two countries in the wake of Anthony Albanese's decision to recognize a Palestinian state. Netanyahu posted several deranged messages to Albanese on his X account, noting that history would remember Albanese as a weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned his country's Jewish population.
Albanese has not betrayed Israel or Australia's Jews. As usual, Netanyahu is mirroring his own faults. He is the weak leader incapable of deciding anything, he is the one undermining Israel's standing in the world, and he is the person abandoning his own people. Netanyahu equates any criticism of his policies with antisemitism, thereby increasing hatred of Jews around the world. Statements like the one he just made do not decrease pressure on Australia's Jewish community – who are suffering from a wave of antisemitism – on the contrary.
Read the article from Haaretz, via Portside, here.
