Wong Call For Ceasefire

With friends like Australia, Israel hardly needs enemies

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s solidarity with Israel lasted a fortnight which, to be fair, was longer than most would have predicted.

But yesterday she crab walked away from the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, tut-tutting Israel for the crimes of Hamas.

With the situation in the Middle East demanding moral clarity, Wong released a word salad full of wrong-headed assumptions, and then addressed it to the wrong party.