The year's most disgusting demonstrator's placard

Over the decades most of us have gotten used to the Left's no-holds-bar sloganeering and put-downs. Whether screaming lies, insults and obscenities to drown an opponent out in the usual thuggish way, or pushing placards similarly scrawled in front of the television cameras, you would think you've seen it all. But don't underestimate the ingenuity and nastiness of the Left.

As is usual for the Left, in the Palestinian-Israel conflict they have gone for the nasties: groups who would rank high on the list of the most barbarous people of modern times. They have taken the part of psychopathic cowards who deliberately choose venues where defenceless women and children are gathered. They choose venues for family celebrations. They deliberately choose people in the most defenceless situation, and then they blow them apart. The torn apart bodies of women, teenagers and children lie in the blackened ruins while the perpetrators and the supporters dance in jubilation in the streets.

On all the television news reports this morning of the demonstrations for and against the awarding of a peace prize to Palestinian politician and activist, Hanan Ashwari, viewers were confronted with a placard clearly showing three symbols: The Star of David, =, the Nazi Swastika. That man who held that placard should be congratulated in contriving one of the nastiest, most offensive, obscene meanings one could place on a placard. Unlike the Palestinians, European Jews were the subject of a genuine attempt to commit genocide.

Australians should be under no illusion about this. That placard was support for the same grouping of people who were responsible for the Bali bombings. Whether it's Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaida, Jemaah Islamiah, or the myriad Arab or Asian groups who cite Osama Bin Laden as their hero and inspiration, their object is to eliminate anyone who resists and threatens their Islamic aims. The holder of that placard would seem logically to be aligning himself with Nazi-types rather than the Israelis who are forced to defend themselves against publicly stated plans for their destruction.