Let all those who hate Zion be put to shame and turned back…
Neither let those who pass by them say, “… we bless you in the name of the Lord!” (Psalm 129:5-8)
Is it too late, or can Australian Christians somehow be galvanised into action to keep their country from losing Heaven’s blessing and coming under a curse?
While Australia has not always done everything right by the Jews—in June 1938, most shamefully, closing its doors to those seeking to flee Nazi Germany—it has been widely regarded as one of the most philosemitic and pro-Israel countries in the West.
That was the case until the Albanese government entered office intent on aligning Australia firmly with the global effort to dispossess Israel of its ancestral lands. The Labor party’s policies now support the uprooting of nearly three-quarters-of-a-million Jews and the planting of a hostile, Muslim ‘Palestine’ in the cradle of their—the Jews’—civilisation.
Last October, Canberra stripped Israel of any right to a capital in Jerusalem, but simultaneously voiced support for the Arab objective of placing the capital of their planned Palestinian state in the city.
And this past 8 August, Foreign Minister Penny Wong proclaimed that Australia will henceforth unreservedly employ the term ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ (OPT) when referring to Samaria and Judea, thereby “clarifying that the West Bank [SIC], including East Jerusalem [SIC] and Gaza, were occupied by Israel”.
Wong also asserted that the Jewish towns in Samaria and Judea “are illegal under international law and a significant obstacle to peace”.
Should any readers of this article have been misled to believe otherwise, the Palestinian Arabs have never constituted a nation, have never had any state anywhere, much less in the land of Israel, and have no historical claim to Jerusalem, which no people other than the Jews has ever had as capital.
But Australia has decided to champion those who, in word and deed, have long been—and remain— committed to Israel’s destruction. Jews residing where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lived and lie buried are now, officially, Canberra’s enemies of peace.
Australia’s Jewish community—unsurprisingly—denounced the new policy.
Australian Christians too, deeply concerned for their country’s future which, they believe, has hitherto been positively advanced by the overall Australia-Israel relationship, pushed back against this broadening support for ‘the Palestinian cause’. A letter expressing dismay at the policy shift was signed by 30 organisations representing thousands around the country and submitted to Wong and her prime minister, Anthony Albanese.
The letter took 10 days to formulate, circulate and sign. While this somewhat unexpected Christian voice of support for the Jews’ position was enthusiastically welcomed, some stressed the importance of responding more speedily. The hope was voiced that these organisations would grasp the need to from now on
network in place ready to promptly message the government in every instance of prejudiced behaviour towards Israel.
Every now and then, Australian supporters of Israel suggest that they see—in actions like the writing of this letter sticking up for the Jewish state—glimmers of the long-ago ANZAC spirit—the gritty resolve that once sent Light Horse men driving straight at the enemy.
Many believe that, in October 1917, their nation was used by God to begin liberating the Land of Israel for the returning Jewish people, who had begun streaming in in waves of immigration 33 years before the outbreak of the Great War.
Less than six weeks after the Australian Light Horse charged Beersheba and routed the Turks, the British Empire liberated Jerusalem. In the ceremony marking the end of 700 years of Islamic rule, ANZAC soldiers lined the entrance through Jaffa Gate into the Old City.
And, the following September—105 years ago at the time of this writing—the 4th Light Horse charged one final time at Tzemach (Semach) on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, conquered the site in fierce hand-to- hand combat, and from there drove the enemy up over the Golan Heights and out of the Promised Land.
Exactly 30 years later, the national home of the Jewish people was resurrected from the ashes… leading Israeli officials to say, as the mayor of Beersheba stated in 2014 when commemorating the charge of the Light Horse—“if it wasn’t for Australia, there would have been no Israel.”
Aussies have in recent years taken some really important stands for the Jewish state.
In 2014, I witnessed Christians Down Under step up to enthusiastically and publicly declare their belief in the Jews’ unassailable national right to ownership of Samaria and Judea.
That same year, thousands called on the government to stand with Israel in the Security Council, which it did— the Abbott government ordering its ambassador to the UN to oppose a UNSC resolution that would have mandated the expunging of Jews from their heartland.
In 2016, a petition was submitted to the House of Representatives and to the Senate, requesting they “be open to supporting the recognition of a ONE STATE SOLUTION, being the democratic Jewish State of Israel, in order to allow Israel’s Government to strive for peace whilst continuing to protect her citizens (of all nationalities and religions) within safe and secure borders, especially in its undivided capital of Jerusalem.”
In 2017 another petition was drawn up, signed by thousands and submitted to both houses in Canberra. It acknowledged Australia’s “enduring warm and close relationship with Israel”, and requested the Federal Parliament “to build on that by taking immediate steps to relocate the Australian embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”
This impetus faltered, however, after the Christian politician, Scott Morrison, was elected prime minister. Hopes that his faith would lead him to take that step and move the embassy were dashed by his timid attempt to be a people pleaser and lead his country to entrench the idea that Jerusalem is a divided city.
Running against Morrison’s Liberal Party in 2021, Albanese’s ALP pledged that, if it won the elections, it would make recognising a State of Palestine a priority. It did win.
Fears that this Palestine promise would be kept at the just-held ALP Conference in Brisbane went unrealised, but it seems it is only a matter of time before Australia takes that final, fateful step.
The State of Palestine is a weapon developed to destroy what will be left of Israel after it is established. Islam insists on this, nor is there any way to refute this: The violent shaping and unalloyed course of Palestinian nationalism taken since its early 20th century birthing by Mohammed Amin-el-Husseini, the 1964 founding of the PLO and its history under arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat to the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 and, since 2004, under Mahmoud Abbas, the goals of Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad—all of this flowing into, and utilising the land-for-peace direction and goals of the US State Department, the UN and the EU, (which, along with the World Bank is openly funding the massive illegal Arab building in Area C of Samaria and Judea), guarantee it.
Palestine is being born before our very eyes. It is nearly here. Under Albanese, Australia is actively assisting in its birth.
Was Wong’s policy announcement enough to shock Israel-loving Aussies into action? Do they understand how urgent things are, and that, unless they make it their priority to vigorously withstand their government’s anti- Israel policies, their nation’s future will be bleak indeed?
I pray so.
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