John Roskam from the Institute of Public Affairs highlights the failures of the fourth estate to hold our politicians (and other institutions) to account.
With military tensions between Russia in the Ukraine and China in the South China Sea, the last thing the world needs now is an escalation in conflict in the Middle East.
Under Joe Biden’s Presidency, the United States has just sent hundreds of millions of dollars to outfits in West bank and Gaza.
Some of these organisations channel their funds to known terror groups while also erecting monuments to those who kill Jews through terror activities.
In 2019 a street was named after Ariel terrorist Omar Abu Lila. There are 28 Palestinian Authority (PA) schools named after terrorists and 3 named after nazi collaborators.
The PA has named three schools after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi. She led the murder of 37 civilians, including 12 children, in a bus hijacking.
Students at the school express admiration for their school's namesake with one claiming:
"My life's ambition is to reach the level of the Martyr fighter Dalal Mughrabi."
Former President Trump stopped funding the PA because their claims of peacful intent were demonstrably false. Have a look at this vision from Palestinian television.
But it’s not just in with the Palestinian Authority that Biden wants back to business as usual.
He is also seeking to restart the Iranian nuclear accord, which began under the Obama administration and was cancelled under Trump.
Iran is also a sponsor of Terrorism and its leaders have vowed to destroy Israel.
A nuclear equipped Iran is a global menace.
That’s why I was heartened to hear about a ‘blackout’ in the country’s main enrichment plant recently.
While little is known of the problem it was serious enough for the Iranian authorities to claim it was an incident of 'nuclear terrorism' and insisting they reserved the right to retaliate.
Israeli media said Israeli intelligence agency Mossad were responsible for the cyber attack. This has not been confirmed by Israeli officials but if they did do it, I say congratulations.
Preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power is a service to the world, especially with the questionable cognitive power of the US President.
Despite normalising relations with a number of Arab countries, Israel appears to be now cast adrift under the Biden administration.
Facilitating and funding the enemies of Israel is not what America should be doing.
It will only fuel unrest in the middle east which was only just settling down after the failures of President Obama.
With military tensions between Russia in the Ukraine and China in the South China Sea, the last thing the world needs now is an escalation in conflict in the Middle East.
Cory Bernardi is the author of seven books and has been a member of the Australian rowing team, a publican, an investment portfolio manager and spent nearly 14 years as an Australian Senator.
Australia is being let down by a government that doesn't know what to do or how to do it. The pressure of underperformance is starting to show and we are all paying the price.
The Prime Minister has a delicate balancing act ahead of him. He needs to muscle up to China while re-establishing important trade markets for our products.
