Australia / Israel and Jewish Affairs Council May 30, 2025
The hypocrisy of international outrage

Once again, the global stage is ablaze with condemnation — not of Hamas, the terror group responsible for the October 7 massacre, but of Israel, a democratic nation fighting to protect its citizens and rescue its kidnapped countrymen and women.

A recent joint statement from the U.K., France, and Canada, along with a similar one by 24 countries including Australia, criticising Israel’s military operations and humanitarian efforts, is just the latest example of manufactured indignation.

If these nations truly want this war to end, the conditions have been clear since October 8, 2023:
1. Hamas must release all the hostages — both the living and the dead.
2. Hamas must lay down its arms and give up power over Gaza

That’s it. If those two things happen, the war ends.

Yet in the flurry of statements aimed at Israel, the hostages are barely mentioned.

And when they are, it’s often as a brief afterthought. There’s no urgency, no outrage, and no real pressure applied to the group holding innocent people in cages, subjecting them to psychological torment and physical torture.

As for Hamas, these statements don’t demand anything of substance.

Instead, they merely “call on Hamas” or “reiterate our message” that hostages should be released — while remaining silent on the demand for Hamas to disarm, even though almost all Western governments have previously agreed this must be the war’s outcome.

Do they really think a not-so-strongly worded statement urging a course of action on terrorists who burn families alive, rape women and massacre children will change their hearts and end this war?