Australian Prime Minister loses his job for criticising Israel

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I hated that socialist Kevin Rudd who wants to censor the internet, but even the best dogs can yank at their leads too much.

The case of the unusal dethroning of PM Rudd in Australian politics provides an example of puppet management.

Where it went wrong:

http://australiansforpalestine.com/18311

From the AAP:

 Rudd's fury over Mossad passport link 25Feb10  February 25, 2010

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has summoned the Israeli ambassador to "get to the bottom" of how suspected Mossad assassins used Australian passports to travel to Dubai to kill a top Hamas commander.

Overnight, Dubai police named 15 new suspects in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was found dead in his hotel room last month in what police have said they are almost certain was an Israeli hit.

Police say three of the suspects travelled to the emirate on Australian passports in the names of Adam Marcus Korman, Joshua Daniel Bruce and Nicole Sandra McCabe.

This morning Mr Rudd told AM that the Israeli ambassador was being summoned to meet Foreign Minister Stephen Smith to explain the latest development.

Mr Rudd said officials had been working on the case through the night and pledged the Government would "not let the matter rest" and that Australia "will not be silent on the matter".

"If Australian passports are being used or forged by any state, let alone for the purpose of assassination, this is of the deepest concern and we are getting to the bottom of this now," he said.

"We will not leave a single stone unturned."

Asked what action the Government may take against Israel, Mr Rudd replied: "Let us establish the facts first."

The three Australians named will be contacted by the Department of Foreign Affairs.

"This is not just a deep concern for the Australian Government, it must be therefore the deepest concern to any individual associated with this as well," Mr Rudd said.

Mr Smith will make a further statement today following his meeting with the Israeli ambassador.

Mr Korman, 34, is Australian-born but lives in Tel Aviv where he sells musical instruments.

In an interview with Israeli media he has denied any involvement and says he is the victim of identity theft.

AM tried to contact him, along with a Bruce Daniel who lives near Haifa in Israel's north, but neither was answering the phone.

But Mr Korman has told Israel's biggest newspaper Yediot Aharonot that he is shocked over what has happened.

"It's identity theft. Simply unbelievable," he is quoted as saying.

"It's a violation of human rights to do such a thing. I have travelled all over the world but never visited Dubai or the United Arab Emirates."

Mr Korman also told the paper he was perplexed as to how he could fly to Australia again now that he is considered an international suspect.

"I have been frightened and shocked since receiving the news," he reportedly said.

AM has confirmed that Australian Nicole Sandra McCabe also lives in Israel.

When contacted this morning, her family in Australia said they had no knowledge of her name being linked to the Dubai investigation.

Dubai police have released new information about the movements of the 26 suspects before and after the assassination.

All had apparently travelled to Dubai from one of six European cities or Hong Kong, and each left the country to various destinations, including Hong Kong and Iran, before returning to Europe where they apparently abandoned the fraudulent passports.

Many had also used credit cards issued by the same US bank.

Police also released new vision from the hotel's security cameras showing the man named as Mr Daniel with one of the French suspects inside the hotel.

The Israeli foreign minister has said there is no proof his country carried out the killing.

Video: Australians linked to Dubai assassination (ABC News Breakfast)

Video: New Dubai murder suspects named (ABC News Breakfast)

Audio: Three Australians suspected in Hamas assassination (AM)

Ever since there has been mounting mainstream media criticism of Rudd, although he did make a lot of bungles.

The last straw for Rudd was shelving the emissions trading scheme in May, which upset the banksters who want to make free money off carbon trading.

Replacement PM visits the masters in Israel: http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-to-head-mission-to-israel-20090525-bkvw.html

Gillard to head mission to Israel
ANDRA JACKSON AND JASON KOUTSOUKIS IN JERUSALEM
May 26, 2009

THE DEPUTY Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will lead a high-level delegation to Israel next month as part of an effort to strengthen political, business and cultural ties between the two countries.

The tour, organised by the lobby group the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange, will include in the 40-strong delegation Liberal MPs Peter Costello, Christopher Pyne, George Brandis, Guy Barnett, Labor MP Mark Dreyfus, QC, Jewish scientists, academics, businessmen and women, and journalists.

An equal number of Israelis will attend the Australia-Israel Leadership Forum, to be held at the historic King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel's most prestigious hotel.
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Leading Israeli politicians from the governing Likud and Labour parties will attend, as well as the opposition party Kadima, led by the former foreign minister Tzipi Livni. It is hoped that the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will attend. As foreign minister in 2002, Mr Netanyahu helped to launch the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange with the then foreign minister, Alexander Downer.

The chairman of the exchange is Albert Dadon, who was an early supporter of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, first bringing him on a trip to Israel in 2002. In 2005 Mr Dadon accompanied Mr Rudd and his now chief-of-staff, Alastair Jordan, on a trip to Israel.

In many ways, Mr Dadon represents a new generation of Australian-Jewish leaders who is emerging to take over the role filled by Mark Leibler, long recognised as a leading figure among Australian Jews and who had a direct line to the former prime minister John Howard.

A spokesman for the organisers said the tour would include a visit to Ramallah in the West Bank to meet leaders of the Palestinian Authority.

However, the purpose of the forum in Jerusalem on June 25-26 was not to engage with different points of views on the Israel-Palestine question but to promote an exchange of ideas and issues common to both countries, such as water, electoral reform and education.

A spokesman for Australians for Palestine, Moamar Mashni, said he was invited by Mr Dadon to accompany the tour as a non-participating observer.

However, he declined because "I was happy to participate as long as it was meaningful, but not to sit in an audience and hear others speak."

Backroom vote gets rid of Rudd, MSM gushes its praise of Gillard ever since despite setting a new low in backstabbery in Australian politics.

Eg of positive pieces on Gillard (who as education minister implemented a wasteful building program that had the government paying up to half a million for a single portable classroom).

Gillard moves into Rudd's office

30 June 2010 | 12:03:39 PM | Source: AAP

A bright red AFL football sits proudly atop a Western Bulldogs scarf, with another from the Melbourne Storm neatly folded beside it. (AAP)

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has moved into her new office as her predecessor Kevin Rudd returns to Brisbane, decking out her new premises with rugby paraphernalia, gumboots and a copy of 'The Billionaire Who Wasn't.'

A bright red AFL football sits proudly atop a Western Bulldogs scarf, with another from the Melbourne Storm neatly folded beside it.

The office's book cases display law tomes and budget papers, alongside a copy of 'The Billionaire Who Wasn't'.

The book is the story of Chuck Feeney, one of the men behind the development of duty-free shopping in the 1960s.

In 1997 Feeney, reportedly worth billions, had handed out $600 million to universities, hospitals and charities and had $5 million left.

"I had enough money," he told the New York Times.

A pair of beautifully-painted gumboots have prominence among the new prime minister's prized posessions.

Gillard was handed the boots by students at Tasmania's Penguin Primary School in order to make her way through a saturated building site 12 months ago.

School principal Jim Rudlingi couldn't be happier.

"She did assure the children she would take them and put them in her office."

Gillard pushed to honour her bargains with the devil:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/01/2941780.htm

Gillard 'more flexible' on gay marriage

Posted 10 hours 57 minutes ago

ACT Education Minister Andrew Barr says he believes new Prime Minister Julia Gillard is more receptive towards gay marriage than her predecessor Kevin Rudd.

Ms Gillard is already on the record as saying marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

Mr Barr says the comments shows there is still a way to go before gay and lesbian people are treated equally, but believes Ms Gillard is open to persuasion.

"The Prime Minister has a more flexible position in relation towards the internal Labor Party debate than the previous prime minister," he said.

"I know from my dealings with her through Education ministers' forums that she's certainly more open to hearing arguments, so I'm optimistic in the future this issue can be revisited."

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Another story on Gillard's ties to Israel:

http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-6189275/aHR0cDovL3d3dy55bmV0bmV3cy5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZXMvMCw3MzQwLEwtMzkxMjU0MywwMC5odG1s

Australian PM criticized over Israel ties (ynet= yid news?)

Less than week after bring appointed prime minister, Julia Gillard forced to defend her partner's right to work for pro-Israel lobbyist

Ynet
Published:    06.29.10, 15:01 / Israel News

Australia's new prime minister was forced to defend her political stand towards Israel on Tuesday, saying that her partner's work for a property group owned by a pro-Israel lobbyist would not influence her and that she would not hesitate to criticize Israel when required.

Julia Gillard was elected prime minister last Thursday following a campaign to discuss her predecessor, Kevin Rudd. The witty politician managed to convince her fellow members at the ruling Labor Party that Rudd would lead them to a defeat in the upcoming elections and should be replaced.

On Monday she was caught in her first political storm as prime minister following a letter written by Ross Burns, who served as Australia's ambassador to Israel between 2001 and 2003.

In a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald, Burns said Gillard has been ''remarkably taciturn on the excesses of Israeli actions in the past two years''.

The former diplomat hinted that Gillard's stand stemmed from her relations with Jewish Melbourne property developer Albert Dadon, who employs Gillard's partner Tim Mathieson and has been active in advancing Australia's ties with Israel.

According to the Herald, Gillard has been part of the Australian delegation to the last two meetings of the Australia Israel Leadership Forum, founded by Dadon.

Burns slammed Gillard for refusing to condemn Israel during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza and criticizing Hamas for firing rockets into Israel, while former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd expressed unease at the blockade of Gaza by Israel.

''It looks a bit funny when you go on this tour to promote bilateral relations, but you don't seem to have any reservations about the issue that was number one on the horizon,'' Burns said.

Burns was joined by another former Australian ambassador to Tel Aviv, Peter Rodgers, who said that under successive governments, Australia's approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had become increasingly unbalanced, and that this was unlikely to change under Gillard's stewardship.

''There's been a marked swing away from the old attempt to be even-handed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to a much more determined pro-Israeli position, and I think Gillard is part of that,'' Rodgers said.

The new prime minister rejected the criticism, clarifying that her stand towards Israel was impartial. She noted that her public condemnation of Hamas in January 2009 was well before there had been any suggestion of Mathieson working for Dadon.

Gillard also defended her partner's right to work for the Ubertas company, stressing that Mathieson's work was his private business.

"Kevin (Rudd) was the first prime minister, as I understand it, to have a partner with her own career, and a formidable and successful career it is," she said, adding that she hoped people would understand that her partner "has got a right to live his life too."