“I’m not going to, as Australia’s prime minister, give a daily commentary on statements by the US president.”

So said Anthony Albanese on February 5 in response to United States President Donald Trump’s declaration that the US would “own” and “level” Gaza.

To be sure, no one could respond to every bit of unhinged drivel that drops out of Trump’s mouth.

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But this was more than that.

The president of the most powerful state in the world, one to which Australia has committed to go to war with via the AUKUS agreement, has proposed the mass ethnic cleansing of 1.8 million people.

It is a violation of international law.

Whether we actually see US troops on the ground in Gaza, or resorts built over the mass graves of Palestinians, is not the point.

It was Trump’s way of giving apartheid Israel free rein.

Albanese’s........

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