The Albanese Government's rewarding of the rapes, slaughter and kidnapping committed by Hamas on October 7 by recognising a Palestinian state shames all Australians, Family First said today.
"What is it Anthony Albanese is recognising? Is it a state led by people who now believe Israel has a right to exist? Is it led by people who will now stop teaching children to hate Jews and support Islamic terrorism?" asked Family First National Director Lyle Shelton.
"Sadly those ideas have not been supported by the almost 90-year-old head of the corrupt Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, until a sudden out-of-character shift in June.
"While the Prime Minister said today Mr Abbas had now changed his mind and believed Israel had a right to exist and that Palestinian kids should not be taught to hate and kill Jews, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not so sure," Mr Shelton said.
Mr Netanyahu told a media conference yesterday he did not believe the PA had changed its stripes.
"What does Anthony Albanese know about Mr Abbas, who says Hitler was not antisemitic, that Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't know?
"Abbas has spent a long lifetime working for a one state solution, not a two-state solution. He has repeatedly rejected generous offers of statehood in the past because that would mean accepting Israel's right to exist.
"How can an entity which pays the pensions of the families of suicide bombers be a partner for peace?
"Today's announcement by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Penny Wong is naïve and the only winners are the Hamas terrorists huddled in their tunnels in Gaza."
Mr Shelton said Family First was dismayed at the media misinformation which routinely blames Israel for the killing and wounding of civilians without mentioning that Hamas uses them as human shields. It makes no secret of leveraging the deaths it causes of its people to turn world opinion against Israel.
"Since the war began Israel has repeatedly given up the element of surprise by smsing and phoning Gazans ahead of military strikes so they could get to safety.
"The largescale destruction of buildings in Gaza, as Mr Netanyahu and others have pointed out, is because Hamas routinely booby traps houses with IEDs (improvised explosive devices). The IDF's destruction of terror tunnels built under houses, hospitals and mosques had also caused structures to collapse.
"Israel has been demonised for causing children to starve to death in Gaza, something for which there is no evidence, while the UN refuses to distribute truckloads of aid because that requires cooperating with the US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
"While Gazan civilians had been deprived of aid because of Hamas looting and the UN's intransigence, the only actual starvation going on in Gaza is of the hostages.
"Sadly, Albanese and Wong have delivered yet another propaganda coup to the Hamas Islamic death cult.
"Unless Hamas, which still has thousands of armed Islamic terrorists in Gaza, is destroyed, it will re-group and attempt October 7 again and again until every Jew from the river to the sea is killed," Mr Shelton said.
