There’s reasons people call for Dorothy dixers to be ditched. They so very rarely elicit new information and therefore efficiently provide a platform for talking points.

Sky News After Dark’s Sharri Markson had her second exclusive one-on-one with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday night. Markson lobbed up the questions and Netanyahu returned serve, untrammelled.

The analogy the pair laboured was of Hamas as the Nazis before the second world war. Churchill was summoned in the service of this analogy – in which somehow Australia is part of a global “appeasement” of Hamas.

“Is this word appeasement a direct reference to how Europe dealt with Hitler in the 1930s and do you think we’re seeing from leaders like [prime minister Anthony] Albanese and others a similar complacency?” Markson asked.

Netanyahu picked it up and ran with it. “It’s appeasement, pure and simple,” he said.

Markson went on.

“Part of the problem here is that there is a very effective propaganda campaign being run against Israel. The Albanese government is aiding and abetting it. So are some media outlets. Prime minister, what do you say to the libels that Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian children and is conducting a genocide in Gaza?” she asked.

“It’s the same lies that were levelled at the Jewish people in the middle ages,” Netanyahu said.

Disputed claims about Hamas’ actions went straight through to the keeper (who’s got a tortured analogy now?) as Netanyahu strolled his way through the interview.

Netanyahu declared Israel would “win both the propaganda war and the war on the ground”.

The first bit was true, at least on Sky News.

Pity the poor subeditor tasked with editing mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s column for News Corp’s special Bush Summit liftout.

Actually, it looks like they were told to leave the copy in its pristine form and take off early to the pub.

The Bush Summit – presented nationally by her companies Hancock Prospecting and S Kidman & Co – is on again.

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