By denying Palestinian anger and grief for the lethal siege of Gaza, Peter Dutton is pushing a well-worn narrative that serves the pursuits of terrorists.
Peter Dutton offered a brand new low level within the already barrel-bottom nature of the Coalition’s exploitation of the Israel-Hamas struggle yesterday, in his assault on Tony Burke for explaining what his personal constituents have been telling him concerning the siege of Gaza. Dutton’s phrases:
Tony Burke, to his nice disgrace, is taking part in to his constituency inside his personal citizens when he must be appearing within the nationwide curiosity. He’s simply going after his personal native political alternative and placing our nationwide curiosity at a second.
Aside from the usual hypocrisy of making an attempt to attain political factors by accusing your opponent of taking part in politics with a problem, Dutton — who returned to assault Burke many times through the course of an interview on Sky Information — was participating in one thing a lot darker. In rejecting Burke’s feedback as illegitimate, and as parochial politics divorced from the nationwide curiosity, Dutton was dismissing the grief and anxiousness of Australians with family and friends in Gaza, who can solely sit by and watch as family members are killed, or endure the creating humanitarian catastrophe created by the Israeli siege.
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