While Israeli hostages are being brutalized and starved by Hamas and Palestinian terrorists in tunnels deep in the Gaza Strip, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong have chosen to reward such terror with the unconditional recognition of the nonexistent “State of Palestine.”

This is not diplomacy. It is treacherous appeasement for domestic political purposes. And it will cost lives.

Wong declared, with self-assured piety, that “it has been more than 77 years since the world promised a Palestinian state,” implying that “the world” made promises to the Palestinians that it never kept.

Unless she is stunningly ignorant of the history of the conflict, she knows that the truth is the exact opposite. It is the Palestinians who have rejected statehood no les

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