Aussie PM dumped by own party

[Magda Hassan]

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THE Rudd Government has over reacted and made a bad mistake in expelling an Israeli diplomat over the Dubai passports affair. This action has already dismayed and divided the Government's supporters. Michael Danby, the Labor member for Melbourne Ports, and the chairman of the parliamentary sub-committee on foreign affairs, immediately condemned the expulsion.
“I do not agree with the decision,” Mr Danby said.
Foreign minister Stephen Smith cited Britain, France, Germany and Ireland in justifying his over reaction.
Yet of these only the British have expelled an Israeli diplomat and that was the action of a dying Government desperately casting around for minority support.
Surely the Rudd Government is more mature and worldly than the most desperate days of the dying Gordon Brown interregnum?






Australia should not ape its former masters in London in this but embrace some of the sophistication of Berlin or Paris, neither, incidentally, regarded as hives of unreasonable pro-Israel bias.
This is a very poor, very feeble decision by the Rudd Government and it will probably pay a political price for it.
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