In 1917 the 4th Australian light horse brigade helped Egyptian and British troops drive Ottoman rule from Palestine. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed brotherhood with Australians referring to the Beersheba campaign in his Wednesday (22 Feb 2017) press conference with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Australians were part of a British force attempting to colonise Palestine. Soon after the defeat of the Turks, British Lord Balfour signed a declaration granting a Zionist state in Palestine.
In 1946 Israeli terrorist militia, the Irgun, bombed the King David hotel in the centre of Jerusalem (Al Quds) killing 91 people and injuring 45. The hotel was the headquarters of British administrative and military rule over Palestine. After the bombing the Irgun and another terrorist group the Haganah drove Palestinians from their land in what became the Catastrophe (Al Nakba). The British left, deserting Arab towns and villages to the brutality of Israeli militia. Hence the Israeli massacre of villagers at Deir Yassin a small town near Jerusalem. The attack on Deir Yassin took place after the United Nations proposed under UN Resolution 181 that Palestine be divided into Arab and Jewish states.
By 1967 Israel controlled lands from the Golan Heights in Syria to Suez Canal in Egypt. This was the Zionist dream of a greater Israel holding sway over lands from the Levant in the north across Palestine to Jordan in the East, taking in Gaza and Beersheba from the Egyptians all the way across the Negev desert to the Suez Canal.
50 years later Netanyahu arrives on Australian shores bringing with him the largest delegation of Israeli companies ever to come to Australia. Netanyahu told an Australian government cabinet meeting on 23 Feb 2017 that “trade with Australia is $1 billion dollars, that it should be at least double or triple that.” He said that “this is one of the great paradoxes, we have to fight the barbarians on the technological turf, it is amazing.” That has seldom happened before” To which Malcolm Turnbull agreed saying “we have to fight the Islamist terrorists...”
Australian troops and airforce are currently assisting Shia-led Iraqi military in the siege of Mosul in Iraq causing millions of inhabitants of the city to flee.
“The local Sunni population harbours long standing grievances against the Shiite dominated army. We see signs of that bitter divide when a soldier shouts 'we are Shia' and shoots over the head of a fleeing child.” (ABC –TV Four Corners Highway to Hell 20 Feb 2017).
A resident complains his house is being shot at (by Iraqi troops) even though there's no IS around. Airstrikes from fighter-bombers are killing Iraqi civilians: ...
