John Anderson was Australia's Deputy Prime Minister back in the 1990s to 2005. When I was also someone. When I was a senior civil servant in the Australian government. And I met him several times. Enough for him to call me by my first name.
I found him a polite man, thoughtful, caring, not at all an up himself politician.
His podcast has done well. It's amongst the most serious out there. He has on people who are credible and ready for a deep talk.
He's right about Hamas winning the PR war. In part because the western media made it easy. Our media wanted to be fooled. They wanted to be told stories that they wanted to believe. That Israel is horrid. That Hamas is a freedom-loving. That they are the "resistance". That they have suffered under cruel occupation for 70 years. That Israel is determined to do genocide on the innocent Palestinians. That they want to kill Palestinian babies. That they want to bomb their hospitals. That the Joooz are up to their usual tricks. Controlling the world and drinking the blood of babies.
But what can Israel do? I think not much. There's no story that Israel can tell that will gain traction because the prevailing wind so strong against it.
I say this without having read John Anderson's piece in the Australian. Because I don't have a sub, and I'm not about to. Perhaps I can find it elsewhere.
