Norman Pilon

Australia is not an empire, it is an arm of an empire. And like any arm, it can be moved by two sets of muscles: Washington's system and its own settler anxieties. On the strategic layer: Australia is locked into the U.S. security architecture: ANZUS, Five Eyes, AUKUS, integrated basing, shared intel, shared tech, shared doctrines. From there, the local Zionist networks do not need to "own" the whole state. They just need to apply pressure at key chokepoints: party machines, media, universities, arts institutions, corporate boards. On the media-money layer, Australia is basically a test case. Murdoch is not "Australian media." Murdoch is empire media that happens to have an Australian passport. When you have a concentrated press that already exists to protect capital, the U.S. alliance, and white comfort, Zionism does not have to conquer it. It just has to plug in as a sacred cause that fits those interests. So when a Bondi attack happens, the script is ready: No serious investigation into root causes. Immediate inflation of "antisemitism" as an existential threat. Demands for new laws, new commissions, new policing powers. What looks like "Israel controlling Australia" is Israel-specific interests riding on a machine that already exists to defend empire, whiteness, and capital. Australia is a settler colony. It is built on the erasure and containment of Indigenous people, and it has never really digested that. For white settler democracies like Australia, Canada, the U.S., and to a degree New Zealand, Zionism feels like a mirror and a shield at the same time. A mirror, because Israel is another project that says: "We arrived, we conquered, we built a modern state, our violence is permanent but morally justified." A shield, because if Israel is righteous, then the entire model of settler-democracy-plus-endless-apologies-but-no-real-restitution is also righteous. So when Australia lines up behind Israel, it is not just foreign policy. It is self-defense of its own story about itself. If Palestine is recognized as a people with a right to return, to land, to reparations, then what does that say about Aboriginal Australia, about Torres Strait Islanders, about land back, about mining, about water, about everything? It is not rational foreign influence. It is a nervous system defending its deepest lie. So to answer your question "why is a vassal so controlled": Because vassals like Australia are not neutral victims, they are enthusiastic junior partners whose own identity crisis lines up perfectly with Zionist demands. The U.S. sets the imperial frame, Israel sets the sacred cause, and local elites enforce it because it protects their class interests and their settler conscience. In that sense, the Royal Commission is not about protecting Jews, it is about criminalizing Palestine and ring-fencing the state of Israel from moral scrutiny. And every time they do this, they are trial-running new tools: censorship, deplatforming, lawfare, police powers, narrative control. Today those tools are used against Palestinians and their allies. Tomorrow they can be used against climate activists, unions, anti-war voices, anyone who threatens the "rules based order." That, to me, is the real pattern: Zionism is a privileged plug-in to an Anglo imperial system that was already there. Australia does not need to be "owned" by Israel to behave this way. It just needs to be what it already is: a loyal outpost trying very hard not to look in the mirror.

🚨BREAKING: An Israeli Sniper Just Shot A 3-Year-Old In The Head In yet another violation of the Gaza ceasefire, a little girl was shot in Beit Lahia.

We do not care Maureen, not an ounce