Yes, the left just held a protest against peace
There is an uncanny sense that the people who claim to care the most about Palestine are the least happy that the bombs have stopped falling on it
And so the unthinkable has happened, something that even just weeks ago few even dared dream of: There is peace between Israel and Palestine.
The people of Israel are happy, the people of Palestine are happy, the Arab states are happy, the biggest Muslim nation is happy, Australia is happy, the whole world is happy.
Except for just one group of people.
And that is of course the same old group of activists and protesters who were out again on Sunday protesting against … er, what was it again?
The ceasefire?
The release of the Israeli hostages?
The freeing of the Palestinian prisoners? The amnesty for Palestinian fighters?
The unlocking of all aid to Gaza?
The withdrawal of the Israeli Defence Force from Gaza?
The investment of international finance into Gaza?
The banning of Hamas involvement in Palestinian politics?
Or perhaps they object to the part of the peace plan where Donald Trump promises to give Gaza a favourable tariff deal? (Yes, that’s actually in there.)
So seriously, what the @#$% are these numpties actually protesting against?
Maybe they are protesting against Trump not getting the Nobel Peace Prize after delivering the very thing they have been bleating about for years: The release of all the aid, the withdrawal of the IDF, a pathway to Palestinian statehood.
But they were strangely unenthused by that particular cause.
In fact there is an uncanny sense that the people who claim to care the most about Palestine are the least happy that the bombs have stopped falling on it.
And that is of course because it was never about Palestine. It was always about the protest.
Something to be angry about, something to be virtuous about, something to show off that you knew more about than everybody else — especially Donald Trump.
Indeed, there seems to be an acute sense of shock and disappointment among the supposedly pro-Palestinian crowd that Trump’s plan to save Palestinians has actually worked.
And so they are now tying themselves in knots to find something new to protest about just so they can, well, protest.
Even after the Australian government moved to officially recognise Palestine they kept protesting because suddenly it wasn’t about recognition but sanctioning Israel.
Yes, punishing Israel was more important than Palestinian statehood. Again, a very odd position for people who are supposedly pro-Palestinian.
And now, even as the peace deal is proceeding and the prisoners and hostages are being exchanged, they are scrambling for new excuses.
Accompanied by the random dog’s vomit of blurted out words like “genocide” and “apartheid” are these straws in the wind just waiting to be grasped: One, that Israel can’t be trusted to abide by the deal.
So they are protesting against something that hasn’t actually happened but they think might happen. OK then.
Two, that it’s not actually about the past two years at all but about the previous decades of occupation and oppression.
So why did they only start the weekly protests two years ago? Oh that’s right, because of the October 7 terror attack which inspired an instant flash protest – against its victims.
Three, that Israel’s war on Gaza is only possible because Australia is secretly selling it stuff that can be used to make weapons.
Yes, Australia’s famous booming trade relationship with Israel is really to blame, including our renowned arms manufacturing capability.
Apparently while publicly lambasting our government for being too pro-Palestine, Benjamin Netanyahu is secretly thanking Yahweh that we are privately propping up the Israeli war effort.
And yes, the war effort that has just stopped under the peace deal.
And here’s the real kicker: The only reason there is a peace deal is because Hamas has agreed to it.
All of these things have been determined to be good enough for both Israel and its proscribed terrorist enemy to agree to but it’s still not good enough for a bunch of Australian socialists who like painting placards.
Again, let’s just fully process that: These Trots are now even more on the fringe of the Israel-Palestine conflict than Hamas.
It really is bonkers stuff but the good news is it reveals in glorious 4K resolution just how utterly deluded, utterly irrelevant and utterly disingenuous these people really are.
The truly great news is that there now really is hope for the suffering of the Palestinian people to end and the future prospect of a Palestinian state that can live in peace next to Israel.
And of course it had nothing to do with the protesters. That is why they protest still.
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