Our Inability to Call Out Evil Has Gone Beyond Our Worst Fears
If there’s one thing that’s truly gone beyond the world’s worst fears, it’s not the situation in Gaza – it’s the West’s inability to call evil by its name.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese seems to me to be like a man trying to navigate with a moral compass that only ever points towards political convenience.
But last week, Albo took that moral fog to new depths.
He declared that the situation in Gaza had “gone beyond the world’s worst fears.”
Really?
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) July 25, 2025
The Evil of October 7
The world’s worst fears surely came to life on October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed across the Israeli border as civilians slept in their beds…
The barbarians murdered over 1,200 innocent civilians – including women, children, and the elderly.
They decapitated babies.
They killed young women and then had sex with the corpses.
They kidnapped more than 250 people, dragging them into Gaza like war trophies.
But that, apparently, did not qualify as surpassing the world’s worst fears in the Prime Minister’s mind.
No. What really jolted Mr Albanese into an impassioned statement today was not the beheading of babies or the rape of Israeli women, but Israel’s response to such savagery.
Apparently, it’s their response that has gone too far.
Hamas Strategy of Using Civilians as Shields Is Evil
Albanese chastises Israel for going beyond the bounds of international law, as if Israel is somehow the problem for defending itself and seeking to rescue its people.
Our PM urges Israel to abide by the Geneva Conventions while completely ignoring the fact that Hamas doesn’t just ignore international law, it commits war crimes as policy.
Using civilians as human shields, operating out of hospitals, targeting schools – this is not just incidental collateral; it is the Hamas strategy.
And there’s this…
In Albanese’s carefully worded world, this isn’t a war waged by a liberal democracy against a genocidal terror organisation.
This is a “conflict.”
Listening to him, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a border dispute between two irritable councils, rather than a war launched by an Islamist death cult that openly declares its intention to wipe out the world’s only Jewish state.
Of course, the Prime Minister calls for the release of the hostages too. But the word “too” indicates the problem.
The call for hostages to be freed is an addendum; a tack on, a footnote. Dare I say, an afterthought?
It’s a weary gesture buried beneath mountains of concern about Gazans – many of whom have been complicit in the atrocities against Israel.
It’s hard to say “moral leadership” when your outrage has a running order.
Hamas Could End the War, But Won’t
Of course, the war could end tomorrow.
If Hamas surrendered and released the hostages, the bombing would stop, the blockade would ease, and Gaza could begin to rebuild.
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If there’s one thing that’s truly gone beyond the world’s worst fears, it’s not the situation in Gaza – it’s the West’s inability to call evil by its name.
And Anthony Albanese is leading the chorus.
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So sadly nearly all governments in ‘the west’ have no shred of a moral compass left.
In 1948 the so called Palestinian Arabs were offered land as were the Jewish people after the holocaust, the offer was made by the UN and Flatley refused by the Palestinians , who refused to share land with the Jewish people.
20 years ago the Gaza strip was given to the Palestinians to rule as they sought fit this was given by the Israelis, the Gazanns, promptly elected their government of Hamas, a recognised terrorist group.
The terrorists of Hamas will continue to fight against Israel till it is wiped out. The idea of a two state solution will never happen as long as the radical Islamists of Hamas are in control. The Government of Australia and and other countries must realise this, by the UN saying the state of Palestine should be recognised is a ridiculous suggestion and makes no sense.
Hamas must be destroyed and perhaps the pieces may be picked by other Arab nations. Palestine does not exist all that is real is another barbaric terrorist group posing as a legitimate entity.
“It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unaware of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe that their own times are wicked, partly because they have no standard outside of themselves by which to measure their times. If there is no fixed concept of justice, how will men know it is violated?
Only those who live by faith can really know what is going on on the world; the great mases are unconscious of the destructive process going on, because they have lost the vision of the heights from which they have fallen.”
(Archbishop Fulton Sheen: Communism and the Conscience of the West; 1948).
The tragedy is this was written 77 years ago and no one is listening!!!!
Australians since they lost Faith in a Christian God about 50 years ago have lost the ability to distinguish between Right and Wrong and to see the dangers coming their way like an express-train. To these fools Hamas and the Gazans are ” victims”, the same victims who want to kill all Jews and who started the whole thing !Tonight on News TV we had a masked man whose message was ” Destroy Israel ” and “Destroy Australia ” .How many Palestinians has Albanese brought to Australia since 7 October 2023 to “destroy Australia ” ?