Messages from ordinary Australians after the Government announced its intention to recognise a Palestinian state.

We have been inundated by messages from the Aus­trali­an public since the gov­ern­ment announced its intention to recognise a Palestini­an state. Here is a selection of the messages we have received:

I am writing to you to say how sick at heart I feel with the way our Prime Minister and other Labour ministers have betrayed an ally. I have always admired the Jewish people and have longed to visit Israel.

When October 7^th happened, I was horrified by the little I saw. I can’t describe what I felt. I was even more disgusted to see what happened on our streets imme­di­ately after. No recog­ni­tion of loss, just hatred. I was ashamed of my country and ashamed of the people who demon­strated. The abhorrent behaviour of our “leaders” was astound­ing. I saw cowardice and lack of moral fibre. I support Israel and I support the Aus­trali­an Jewish Community. At every oppor­tun­ity, I try to speak up and challenge the pro-Palestine movement for the sham it is.

The march on the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been recorded in news­pa­pers and online but history will treat this event harshly.

The march illus­trated the ignorance of a nation. It also illus­trated that many Aus­trali­ans are too lazy to do some fact checking to find the truth. The saddest thing of all is that I found out that Australia had an anti-semitic heart. My father fought for this country so that all who lived in Australia could be free to live their life without fear. It saddens me to see that maybe that sentiment is slipping away.

I’ve never done something like this before and I don’t really know who to send this message to but here goes.

I am an Aus­trali­an citizen, 5^th gen­er­a­tion. We live in rural Victoria and I am a mechanic and my wife is a nurse.

I just want to say that the Aus­trali­an gov­ern­ment’s latest and most dis­turb­ing act to recognise Palestine as a state ignoring the atro­cit­ies committed by Hamas (they are Palestini­an) has left me feeling abso­lutely heart­broken and at the same time furious. I’d like to vent to our local inde­pend­ent member Helen Haynes but she is tarred with the same brush our … govt is.

This Gov­ern­ment does not speak for me or the members of this household. …. We, as do all of our friends here in the country stand in solid­ar­ity with Israel. Please stay strong.

I wish to state that the current Aus­trali­an gov­ern­ment has made a terrible mistake in recog­nising Palestine, and wish to assure you that the vast majority of thinking and fair minded Aus­trali­ans support Israel unre­servedly!… I wish all of the Israeli people well, and please remember that you have many friends in Australia!

In December 1941, President Roosevelt said the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour would go down in history as a day of infamy.

So will yesterday – and it was done by our own gov­ern­ment.

Shameful.

With my con­tinu­ing very best wishes

A brief note of support.

I am not Jewish and will likely never be. However, I would like to express my total support for the Jewish people and the State of Israel regarding the current situation in Israel and Gaza, and worst of all against the abuse being suffered by Jewish groups in Australia.

In my circle of people (Brisbane, Australia) I know of no one that supports or can justify the atro­cit­ies of 7 Oct and the con­tinu­ous holding of, and abuse, of innocent hostages.

Further, I can only express my disgust at the current Aus­trali­an Government’s, espe­cially the congenial idiot of a Prime Minister (current Aus­trali­an PM), support for a Palestine State. This action is akin to rewarding criminals for their actions in breaking the law and failure to bring murders to justice.

All the best for the future and may the Jewish people always be welcome in Australia, be part of our community and find eternal peace and success in the future. And may this ongoing abuse of human rights against Jewish people cease as soon as possible.

Thank you for your time.

Hello everyone at the Council. I am so very sorry to read this – as an Aus­trali­an citizen I have never been presented with a party political election platform con­tain­ing anything as sig­ni­fic­ant as this huge U‑turn. No-one voted for this. Please keep these emails full of factual content as this helps con­ver­sa­tions.

I am very dis­ap­poin­ted by our Gov­ern­ment’s recent decision.

‘I wish to register my strong objection to your Gov­ern­ment’s recog­ni­tion of the Palestine State.

In my view it is purely a political statement without any con­sid­er­a­tion of how such a state can be created or free and fair elections held to legit­im­ise a gov­ern­ment to ensure that its people are best cared for and import­antly fed so they can live in peace and posterity.

It sends the wrong message to Hamas, which remains a terrorist organ­isa­tion without purpose other than to impose misery on its own people and Israel.

With this ill conceived and mean­ing­less gesture Australia has done what the West did in the 1940s to both Aus­trali­an and Israeli Jews – ignored the realities and the hope that it would all go away.

You have lost me mate – let me say to a Labor vote in the future – “never again”.’

OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE AND FOREIGN MINISTER PENNY WONG
On the Recog­ni­tion of a Palestini­an State and the Sys­tem­at­ic Per­se­cu­tion of Christian Palestini­ans

Dear Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong,

Your gov­ern­ment’s recog­ni­tion of a Palestini­an state raises urgent and deeply troubling questions.

Is the state you are sup­port­ing truly intended to be a nation for all Palestini­ans — including its Christian minority, who have long suffered under both the Palestini­an Authority and Hamas? Or is it a state for only those who conform to a narrow religious ideology?

The decline of Chris­tian­ity in the Palestini­an ter­rit­or­ies is well doc­u­mented and stark. In 1922, Chris­ti­ans made up around 11% of the pop­u­la­tion. Today, they represent less than 1% — a shocking collapse that cannot be dismissed as mere coin­cid­ence. It cor­rel­ates directly with decades of religious intol­er­ance, social mar­gin­al­iz­a­tion, legal dis­crim­in­a­tion, and in some cases, outright per­se­cu­tion, par­tic­u­larly under Hamas and the PA.

Consider the facts:

• Bethlehem, once a majority-Christian city and the birth­place of Christ, was 86% Christian in 1950. After the Palestini­an Authority assumed control in the 1990s, this number plummeted. By the 2017 census, Chris­ti­ans made up just 10% of the pop­u­la­tion.
• In Gaza, Chris­ti­ans once numbered around 5,000. After the rise of Hamas and, more recently, the events of October 7, 2023, the Christian pop­u­la­tion has shrunk to fewer than 1,000 in a pop­u­la­tion of over 2 million.
• In 2016, Gaza’s own Bishop Alexios warned of forced con­ver­sions of Chris­ti­ans to Islam under threat of violence and death.
• Christian clergy and insti­tu­tions have faced per­sist­ent har­ass­ment, intim­id­a­tion, and desec­ra­tion of holy sites. The envir­on­ment created under Hamas and the PA has been openly hostile to religious minor­it­ies.

These are not isolated incidents. They form part of a systemic pattern of exclusion and intim­id­a­tion, amounting in effect — if not in official policy — to a form of religious cleansing. Chris­tian­ity is dying in the land of its birth, not because of natural decline, but because of active pressure and fear.

And yet, the silence from your gov­ern­ment — and from much of the inter­na­tion­al community — has been deafening.

Your recog­ni­tion of a Palestini­an state without sim­ul­tan­eous demands for pluralism, religious freedom, and minority pro­tec­tion sends a dangerous message: that the per­se­cu­tion of Chris­ti­ans is a tolerable price for political expedi­ency.

If the future Palestini­an state cannot tolerate the Christian minority within its own people, what hope do you think it holds for coex­ist­ence with others — including Israel?

Support for Palestini­an self-determ­in­a­tion must not come at the cost of turning a blind eye to oppres­sion within that very society. Recog­ni­tion must come with con­di­tions — with a firm expect­a­tion that human rights, including freedom of religion, will be upheld for all.

Do you sleep well at night knowing that your decisions may accel­er­ate the extinc­tion of Chris­tian­ity in its holiest sites?

The Christian pop­u­la­tion of the Holy Land is dwindling because those in power — both local and global — refuse to speak plainly about the source of their suffering. If your recog­ni­tion of a Palestini­an state ignores this truth, then it is morally incom­plete.

We urge you to recon­sider the implic­a­tions of your position, and to speak out — clearly and unequi­voc­ally — for the rights of all Palestini­ans, not just the ones whose voices are loudest.

It is time for your organ­isa­tion to inform Aus­trali­ans that there is an east and west Palestine. East is Arab Palestine (Jordan) and West is Jewish Palestine (Gaza, Israel, Judea and Samaria). People need to be informed of the truth.

No such place in history as Palestine or Palestini­an people.

There have been hundreds of diarists from biblical recording their travels to Palestine without ever referring to those currently identi­fy­ing them­selves as indi­gen­ous Palestini­ans

…

Those writers, research­ers, trav­el­lers, religious, political and military leaders who since time imme­mori­al journeyed or inhabited and recorded their exper­i­ences in Palestine never in their writings alluded to a people, race or tribe indi­gen­ous to the geography known as Palestini­ans.

It is time for your organ­isa­tion to inform Aus­trali­ans that there is an east and west Palestine. East is Arab Palestine (Jordan) and West is Jewish Palestine (Gaza, Israel, Judea and Samaria). People need to be informed of the truth.

No such place in history as Palestine or Palestini­an people.

There have been hundreds of diarists from biblical recording their travels to Palestine without ever referring to those currently identi­fy­ing them­selves as indi­gen­ous Palestini­ans

…

Those writers, research­ers, trav­el­lers, religious, political and military leaders who since time imme­mori­al journeyed or inhabited and recorded their exper­i­ences in Palestine never in their writings alluded to a people, race or tribe indi­gen­ous to the geography known as Palestini­ans.

There have been hundreds of diarists from biblical recording their travels to Palestine without ever referring to those currently identi­fy­ing them­selves as indi­gen­ous Palestini­ans. None of those writers ever ref­er­enced for example, a war, battle or conflict fought by Palestini­ans against any domestic or foreign invader in pro­tec­tion of their habitat let alone the name of any indi­gen­ous Palestini­an leader. The fact is the indi­gen­ous Palestini­an is an his­tor­ic­al myth – an anthro­po­lo­gic­al miracle.

I have noted numerous indi­vidu­als through the centuries who detailed their travels through the geo­graph­ic­al area we now term Israel and the Palestini­an Ter­rit­or­ies and none of these his­tor­i­ans, research­ers, trav­el­lers and diarists ever refer to the Palestini­an people. And the reason is simple and logical as the Palestini­ans are immig­rants to the geography.

Below are just some examples of Arab com­ment­at­ors who attest to my statement.

Auni Bey Abdul – Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to the British Peel Com­mis­sion, 1937:

“There is no such country as Palestine. Palestine is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Koran, it is alien to us”.

Ahmadd Shukan Arab Ambas­sad­or to the United Nations, 1956:

“Such a creature as Palestine does not exist at all ….”

King Hussein of Jordan, stated in 1960:

“Since 1948 Arab leaders have approached the so-called Palestini­an problem in an irre­spons­ible manner. They have used the Palestini­an issue for selfish political purposes. This is both ridicu­lous and criminal”.

Walid Shoebat, former PLO terrorist stated:

“Why is it that on June 4^th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestini­an?”

Zuhair Mushin . Member of the PLO Military Council in an interview with the Dutch paper Trouw, March 1977:

“There are no dif­fer­ences between Jord­ani­ans, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our ”Palestini­an ” identity…yes the existence of a separate Palestini­an identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestini­an state is a new tool in the con­tinu­ing battle against Israel”.

Per­versely even the most high profile so called “Palestini­an”, Yasser Arafat, real name Mohammed Abdel Rahman Raouf al – Qudwa, who was actually Egyptian, admitted in his auto­bi­o­graphy that the Palestini­ans were an invention.

“If there is any such thing as a Palestini­an it is I, Arafat who created them”.

Joseph Farah, Arab writer and historian in his book Myths Of The Middle East:

“There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestini­ans who are Arabs …”

Those identi­fy­ing today as “Palestini­ans’ are third and fourth gen­er­a­tion des­cend­ants of immig­rants from sur­round­ing Arab countries. There are a mountain of Gov­ern­ment reports, articles, reference books and material proving beyond doubt that the vast majority of Arabs were not land owning Palestini­ans who had been indi­gen­ous inhab­it­ants but immig­rants bene­fit­ting from the economic advant­ages that Zionism created. Moreover, those Arabs never iden­ti­fied as Palestini­ans, a term they believed made a mockery of their ori­gin­a­tion. as the quo­ta­tions above verify.

Arab immig­ra­tion and Zionism combined to improve the economy of the area and it is intriguing to revert to the state­ments made by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem , Amin al – Husseini , to Sir Laurie Hammond of the Peel Com­mis­sion in 1937 in which he confirmed and admitted that no land had been stolen by the Zionists but all had been legally purchased . The land buyers were the Jewish National Fund or indi­vidu­al phil­an­throp­ists.

Many diarized about the influx of Arab immig­ra­tion into Palestine during the first waves of Zionism.

James Finn, Papers Relating to the Dis­turb­ances in Syria, June 2^nd 1860:

“I learn of the arrival of six thousand of the Bnei Sukhr Arabs at Tiberias who are never seen this side of the Jordan”.

C.G. Smith – Studies on Palestine During the Ottoman Period:

“After 1870, the Turkish forward policy included the planting of Cir­cas­si­an colonies in the country”.

The Encyc­lo­pe­dia Brit­tan­ica 1911 records:

“There are very large con­tin­gents from the Medi­ter­ranean countries espe­cially Armenia, Greece and Italy. Turkomen settlers and a fairly large Afghan colony, Motawila immig­rants from Persia, tribes of Kurds, a Bosnian colony, Cir­cas­si­an set­tle­ments and a large Algerian and Sudanese element”.

Tewlik Bey El Hourani, Governor of Houran Province, Southwest Syria stated in an interview with La Syne August 12^th 1934, that “in the last few months up to thirty six thousand Houransee Syrians had entered and settled in Palestine”.

De Hass, History of Palestine, 1934:

“In 1860 entire Algerian tribes immig­rated en masse to Safed. The Muslims of Safed are ”mostly descended from these Moorish settlers and from Kurds who arrived a little earlier to the area”.

It is obvious that immig­rants were not only Arabs but European Christian and at one time Chris­ti­ans made up nearly fifty percent of post 1964 Palestini­an pop­u­la­tion. The Muslim Palestini­ans have been very suc­cess­ful in eth­nic­ally cleansing the Chris­ti­ans now account­ing for approx­im­ately five percent of today’s Palestini­ans.

De Hass History of Palestine 1934 continued:

“Today’s Palestini­ans are immig­rants from many nations; ” Balkans , Greeks, Syrians, Latins, Egyptians , Turks, Armenians, Italians, Persians, Kurds, Germans, Afghans, Cir­cas­si­ans, Bosnians, Sudanese, Samar­it­ans, Algerians, Motawila, Tartars, Hun­gari­ans, Scots, Navarese, Bretons, English, Franks, Rutheni­ans, Bohemians„ Bul­gari­ans, , Georgians, Persian, Copts, Indians, Maronites and many others”.

The Palestine Peel Com­mis­sion Report , London, 1937:

“The illegal Arab immig­ra­tion was not only going on from the Sinai , but also from Trans­jordan and Syria, and it is very difficult to make a case out for the misery of the Arabs if at the same time their com­pat­ri­ots from adjoining states could not be kept from going in to share that misery”.

Winston Churchill, 1922, A Peace To End All Peace:

“The Arabs would have sat in the dark forever had not the Zionist engineers harnessed the Jordan River for elec­tri­fic­a­tion. Now they swarm into Palestine seeking the light”.

In 1939 Churchill wrote:

“So far from being per­se­cuted. the Arabs have crowded into the country and mul­ti­plied until their pop­u­la­tion has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish pop­u­la­tion”.

Ernst Franken­stein in his Justice for my People, 1943:

“Ibrahim Pasha the 1831 Egyptian conqueror of Palestine left behind him permanent colonies of Egyptians at Besian, Nablus, Irbid, Acre and Jaffa – into Jaffa alone at least 2000 have been imported”.

James William Parkes in his History of the Peoples of Palestine, 1970 page 212, wrote thus, “There are villages populated wholly by settlers from other portions of the Turkish Empire in the 19^th century. There are villages of Bosnians, Cir­cas­si­ans and Egyptians”.

How is it that the fictional Palestini­ans has managed to convince the world that they are the his­tor­ic­al peoples of the geography they claim has been stolen from them by the Zionists. The Palestini­ans are a fic­ti­tious people that have morphed into fact. The world however chooses to ignore the facts. The modern antisemitism is to support Palestini­an claims which his­tor­ic­ally and legally have never existed.

You can tell where the Arabs come from by their last names. Time to get this out into the public domain.Palestinian?”

Zuhair Mushin . Member of the PLO Military Council in an interview with the Dutch paper Trouw, March 1977:

“There are no dif­fer­ences between Jord­ani­ans, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our ”Palestini­an ” identity…yes the existence of a separate Palestini­an identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestini­an state is a new tool in the con­tinu­ing battle against Israel”.

Per­versely even the most high profile so called “Palestini­an”, Yasser Arafat, real name Mohammed Abdel Rahman Raouf al – Qudwa, who was actually Egyptian, admitted in his auto­bi­o­graphy that the Palestini­ans were an invention.

“If there is any such thing as a Palestini­an it is I, Arafat who created them”.

Joseph Farah, Arab writer and historian in his book Myths Of The Middle East:

“There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestini­ans who are Arabs …”

Those identi­fy­ing today as “Palestini­ans’ are third and fourth gen­er­a­tion des­cend­ants of immig­rants from sur­round­ing Arab countries. There are a mountain of Gov­ern­ment reports, articles, reference books and material proving beyond doubt that the vast majority of Arabs were not land owning Palestini­ans who had been indi­gen­ous inhab­it­ants but immig­rants bene­fit­ting from the economic advant­ages that Zionism created. Moreover, those Arabs never iden­ti­fied as Palestini­ans, a term they believed made a mockery of their ori­gin­a­tion. as the quo­ta­tions above verify.

Arab immig­ra­tion and Zionism combined to improve the economy of the area and it is intriguing to revert to the state­ments made by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem , Amin al – Husseini , to Sir Laurie Hammond of the Peel Com­mis­sion in 1937 in which he confirmed and admitted that no land had been stolen by the Zionists but all had been legally purchased . The land buyers were the Jewish National Fund or indi­vidu­al phil­an­throp­ists.

Many diarized about the influx of Arab immig­ra­tion into Palestine during the first waves of Zionism.

James Finn, Papers Relating to the Dis­turb­ances in Syria, June 2^nd 1860:

“I learn of the arrival of six thousand of the Bnei Sukhr Arabs at Tiberias who are never seen this side of the Jordan”.

C.G. Smith – Studies on Palestine During the Ottoman Period:

“After 1870, the Turkish forward policy included the planting of Cir­cas­si­an colonies in the country”.

The Encyc­lo­pe­dia Brit­tan­ica 1911 records:

“There are very large con­tin­gents from the Medi­ter­ranean countries espe­cially Armenia, Greece and Italy. Turkomen settlers and a fairly large Afghan colony, Motawila immig­rants from Persia, tribes of Kurds, a Bosnian colony, Cir­cas­si­an set­tle­ments and a large Algerian and Sudanese element”.

Tewlik Bey El Hourani, Governor of Houran Province, Southwest Syria stated in an interview with La Syne August 12^th 1934, that “in the last few months up to thirty six thousand Houransee Syrians had entered and settled in Palestine”.

De Hass, History of Palestine, 1934:

“In 1860 entire Algerian tribes immig­rated en masse to Safed. The Muslims of Safed are ”mostly descended from these Moorish settlers and from Kurds who arrived a little earlier to the area”.

It is obvious that immig­rants were not only Arabs but European Christian and at one time Chris­ti­ans made up nearly fifty percent of post 1964 Palestini­an pop­u­la­tion. The Muslim Palestini­ans have been very suc­cess­ful in eth­nic­ally cleansing the Chris­ti­ans now account­ing for approx­im­ately five percent of today’s Palestini­ans.

De Hass History of Palestine 1934 continued:

“Today’s Palestini­ans are immig­rants from many nations; ” Balkans , Greeks, Syrians, Latins, Egyptians , Turks, Armenians, Italians, Persians, Kurds, Germans, Afghans, Cir­cas­si­ans, Bosnians, Sudanese, Samar­it­ans, Algerians, Motawila, Tartars, Hun­gari­ans, Scots, Navarese, Bretons, English, Franks, Rutheni­ans, Bohemians„ Bul­gari­ans, , Georgians, Persian, Copts, Indians, Maronites and many others”.

The Palestine Peel Com­mis­sion Report , London, 1937:

“The illegal Arab immig­ra­tion was not only going on from the Sinai , but also from Trans­jordan and Syria, and it is very difficult to make a case out for the misery of the Arabs if at the same time their com­pat­ri­ots from adjoining states could not be kept from going in to share that misery”.

Winston Churchill, 1922, A Peace To End All Peace:

“The Arabs would have sat in the dark forever had not the Zionist engineers harnessed the Jordan River for elec­tri­fic­a­tion. Now they swarm into Palestine seeking the light”.

In 1939 Churchill wrote:

“So far from being per­se­cuted. the Arabs have crowded into the country and mul­ti­plied until their pop­u­la­tion has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish pop­u­la­tion”.

Ernst Franken­stein in his Justice for my People, 1943:

“Ibrahim Pasha the 1831 Egyptian conqueror of Palestine left behind him permanent colonies of Egyptians at Besian, Nablus, Irbid, Acre and Jaffa – into Jaffa alone at least 2000 have been imported”.

James William Parkes in his History of the Peoples of Palestine, 1970 page 212, wrote thus, “There are villages populated wholly by settlers from other portions of the Turkish Empire in the 19^th century. There are villages of Bosnians, Cir­cas­si­ans and Egyptians”.

How is it that the fictional Palestini­ans has managed to convince the world that they are the his­tor­ic­al peoples of the geography they claim has been stolen from them by the Zionists. The Palestini­ans are a fic­ti­tious people that have morphed into fact. The world however chooses to ignore the facts. The modern antisemitism is to support Palestini­an claims which his­tor­ic­ally and legally have never existed.

You can tell where the Arabs come from by their last names. Time to get this out into the public domain.