The mud had settled after yesterday’s Pro-Hamas rally in the rain, where hardcore adherents including a number of former Far Left politicians, regular anti-Israel media mouthpieces and Julian Assange walked Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge.

When organisers threatened police with a demand to walk the bridge back again contrary to their protest agreement, a standoff ensued until they were turned away. Yet, that didn’t stop media calling the march a “turning point” in the Gaza War, except they just couldn’t say for whom.

Sky News Australia this morning seemed to hop on that bandwagon until mid-morning when political host Kieran Gilbert introduced senior Labor strategist Simon Banks for a studio interview.

Banks had served as chief of staff to a number of Labor’s past leaders. This inside know-how took him into his current role as managing director of heavyweight Labor advisory service Hawker Britton.

While no one expected it, Gilbert and Banks were about to redefine the Gaza narrative with a cogency most commercial media had yet to absorb.

The truth

Talking about the practicalities of peace in Gaza Gilbert said, “The complexity of it with hostages still being held, and Hamas being reprehensible terrorists,“ made it unlikely that peace would come easily.

Banks said, “I don’t think anyone thinks it’s easy. I think this is one of the reasons why the government is not going down the path of some of our allies Britain and France and moving a bit more proactively.”

Both Britain and France last week had declared that they would recognise Palestine as a state in September though they disagreed how. UK’s prime minister Keir Starmer incredulously said that recognition would only come if Hamas refused to release any further Israeli hostages. France’s president Emmanuel Macron saw the corrupt Palestinian Authority as the future. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, however, wouldn’t commit saying that Australia held little sway in these matters.

Banks agreed with Albanese’s estimate of Australia’s geopolitical footprint, yet, continued with a claim that few had ever seen on the nightly news:

“Arab nations are finally turning against Hamas itself. I think that they need to do more. It is very clear that Hamas must have no role if there is to be a Palestinian state.”

Banks was correct

Banks’s tenure as political adviser had spanned the Arab Spring and subsequent Syrian Civil War. He knew then, that with the destruction of Iran’s nuclear weapons program in June by the US and Israeli air forces, the endgame for Qatar, Iran and other financial backers of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran itself had come.

Militarily Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS and the Pasdaran (IRGC) have been rendered strategically ineffective.

Therefore, all Qatar has left as a final throw is its Western political influence and Western media infiltration. That’s what we saw on the Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday. And that’s what we are seeing the worst of in the streets of Europe, Canada, lately New York, and on our screens and across news mastheads that we once trusted.

The manufacturing of casualty numbers and famine in Gaza backed by documented fraudulent imagery supplied by Hamas’s Pallywood, is the media’s last hurrah in the form of a blood libel, short of calling for Jewish ghettos in London, Paris, Toronto and Sydney.

We have to ask, why?

The Gaza Strip is all but gone at Hamas’s instigation for running its terror network and rocket sites through tunnels beneath homes, schools and hospitals.

Yet, for over a year, the West has supported this program of human shields used by Hamas knowingly denying Palestinians sanctuary in Egypt next door.

This is either antisemitism or corruption: I wager the latter, but let me add some more nuance to what I mean.

The end of the nation-state

The world today has somehow been let to begin a shift away from the nation-state. We are regressing to a time unseen since the 1600s when wars were fought by state religions, and swathes of populations in those states died in decades-long wars in the name of God (but not for God).

What most of those in socialist politics and media today therefore see as the eradication of the colonial past, is in fact opening the door once again to jihad and crusade.

The difference is that this version of World War 3 will not be commanded by national dictators under their Mein Kampf manifestos with allies pro and con as past wars have been. Rather religious leaders will hold sway. And if so, the West’s bedrock of Judeo-Christianity has already lost unless it pulls its nuclear trigger.

A corrupt media in other words is unwittingly driving the Western world to its genocide but it forgets. The goal of genocide is always power. For with power comes not God, but mortal wealth.

That’s why thousands marched for Hamas yesterday, and Hamas can have no future.

© 2025 Adam Parker.
Picture credit: Kieran Gilbert interviews Simon Banks on Sky News Australia, August 4 2025. © 2025 Foxtel.