Leaders of ill repute in our fair shores: Herzog first, so maybe it’s time of Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas?

All’s fair in love and war. Well might the great bard so say, but the OG John Lyly had it down: the rules of fair play do not apply in love and war. We saw Herzog and his premier dame cut a security-detailed swathe across Sydney. In epic miscalculation, our Prime Minister decided it would be a good idea to further fan the proverbial of what is already an epically doomsday’ish situation and lay out the red carpet for a man whose childhood nickname – Bougie – pretty much encapsulates the multigenerational privilege of his close and kin. If Australians are of the mind that certain leaders of rogue genocidal states that have shown deliberate and utter contempt for human rights and international law are welcome in these here shores, well, then let all leaders of infamy and questionable character be welcome. Fair? Yes. But fair it won’t happen before we’re all pushed to the abyss. The UN Commission and other international forums have charged Bougie with inciting genocide. But let’s not let that stop our own Australian leaders from dancing to the tune of Royal Commissions and other fancies that the very influential and let’s face it, bully, that are the chieftains of Australia’s Jewish community decides to next concoct. Shame of our leaders for such fawning and supplicating and just, well, weak nose-led non-leadership. How to master the art of puppetry. Machiavelli had nothing on this lot.