During a 1971 trip to Israel, then-future Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke met with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, a meeting he described as a “life-changing event.” He said Israel was “an inspiration, a small lone democracy in the Middle East.” Upon his return, he warned, “If the bell tolls for Israel, it won’t just toll for Israel — it will toll for all mankind.”
The bell is indeed tolling for the Jewish state, but rather than recognizing the global implications of this moment, the Biden administration is exploiting the splintered state of Israel’s wartime coalition.
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