Chicken Wong Flies to Israel

Foreign ministers normally fall into one of two categories - hawks and doves. But in Penny Wong Australia has a chicken.

Chicken Wong, who condemns Hamas but refuses to fully back Israel, flew the coop for the Middle East today - three months after the greatest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

Why Chicken Wong did not go earlier is anyone’s guess. Suffice to say that Israel is not high on her pecking order.

Chicken Wong had already ruffled feathers by insisting this week’s visit was not one of solidarity with Israel.

Rather, she is there to meet with the Israelis as well as with leaders in Jordan, and the UAE, and those foxes in the West Bank.

And now the plot chickens, with news that our foreign minister will not be visiting towns in the south of Israel where the Hamas attacks took place.

The towns are a 90 minute drive from Jerusalem - too far, apparently, for a chicken run.

By ignoring a trip to the scene of the attack, Chicken Wong risks even running afoul of our allies once again.

Australia threw a hen-grenade into the UN General Assembly when we abandoned our allies and voted against Israel.

Then Australia refused to support Israel at The Hague where it is being tried for henocide.

And now, just like cluck-work, Chicken Wong has insulted Israel once again.

Former Labor MP Mike Kelly was disgusted at news that Wong had chickened out of visiting Israel’s southern border towns.

He told The Australian:

“She would gain a close, personal ­appreciation of the brutal, sadistic savagery and genocidal regional Islamist agenda of Hamas.

“Having this perspective should help form a sound position on Israel’s right and need to prosecute the war against Hamas and to ensure ­Israel, and the wider world, is never again subject to this kind of evil.”

Perhaps Chicken Wong thinks that if she doesn’t see what happened at Israel’s border, then it didn’t really happen.

I’m not sure what Chicken Wong achieves by winging it to Israel three months after the tragic attack, only to ignore the towns where the dreadful attacks occurred.

Why insult Israel more than she already has?

The irony, of course, is that Chicken Wong would be tarred and feathered in the culture she is trying so hard to appease.

That’s if she was lucky.

More likely she’d end up running around Gaza like a chook with its head cut off. Or thrown from a tall building. Hamas would be amused to see if this chick could fly.

The maddening thing is that here in Australia, and in Israel, no-one cares about Wong’s sexuality. We just wish she would stand up for our ally in the Middle East and stop being such a chicken!