The Australian government, through its silence and inaction, is becoming increasingly complicit in the suffering of Gaza through its do-nothing approach.
Moral bankruptcy of the highest order . The venal political calculation that if we grovel to the dictates of the Zionists , ignore totally the genocide being committed by the Israeli govt and IDF , remain silent when Israeli govt Ministers boast about their annihilation agenda , we can win an election , and “who cares about Palestinians anyway?” can be read as the priority of this Labor Party . Then , the First thing they do after winning the election is sack the only Muslim MP , Ed Husic , who has been an excellent Science Minister . Simply shocking in its level of inhumanity . And now the latest grovel to mining barbarians will be the permission given for Woodside to go right ahead with whatever environmental crimes they wish to commit .
How much longer will the Australian public be prepared to tolerate this amoral behaviour ? Senator Watt in his new portfolio
has likely been given his instructions . Just as Albanese trampled upon the Environmental deals that Tanya Plibersek had been working on. Albanese should reflect a little more deeply on the reasons he won this election , as being only marginally less catastrophic than the Coalition .
Thanks for comparing this to our stance on apartheid South Africa. I often refer to this, as it reflects a time when our leaders were leaders ... now they are like barking dogs chasing the cars of public opinion or motivated by a desire to ingratiate themselves to the US or Israel.
I am also struck that Wong not only considers the deaths of these two Israelis more significant than the deaths of 60 - 200,000 Palestinians, but also feels empowered to use it to launch an attack on those who oppose genocide. I recall that Israel's targeting and killing of WCT staff, including an Australian did not warrant such a strong response from Wong.
And finally, on antisemitism. Reports indicate the killing (which may arguably be described as an act of terrorism) had nothing to do with Judaism, and more to do with the actions of a political state. By pulling the antisemitism card, Wong is arguing, effectively, that all Jews support a state committing genocide because they are Jews, so therefore criticism of that states actions is antisemitic. That in itself is an act of antisemitism.
Yes Australia could do a whole lot more in word and action. I agree that the silent treatment worked for the ALP govt - and I think would work for a LNP govt if they were in. Israel is too far away and the MSM does not show Australia the impact.
I think that the conflation of views of Israeli committing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza with accusations of anti Semitism are holding govt, commentators and people back from expressing views and taking action. I am not anti Semitic or anti Buddhist or anti Christian just because I am against countries committing genocide. I am as much against graffiti on synagogues as I am of explosives blowing up children - it does not matter who is doing it.
As a South African Australian of 25 years I remember seeing but not understanding (I was 19 yrs old) the commitment shown by what we thought of as our Australia and NZ "friends" in the Commonwealth in boycotting and campaigning against Apartheid SA and dropping flour bombs on rugby fields (NZ 1981).
Where is that commitment today? Especially now that flour is stuck on trucks at the gates of Gaza and not being dropped from the sky.
Excellent article, thank you. My take on why they acting like this is because they are afraid of backlash from Trump's America if they do or say anything that might draw negative attention. Their continuation of AUKUS falls into the same pattern of behaviour and behind it all is the trauma arising from 'The Dismissal' when the anglosphere powers turned on and savaged the ALP. They are scared of it happening again. Morally reprehensible for sure and a distinct lack of bottle, but not wrong either.
Moral bankruptcy of the highest order . The venal political calculation that if we grovel to the dictates of the Zionists , ignore totally the genocide being committed by the Israeli govt and IDF , remain silent when Israeli govt Ministers boast about their annihilation agenda , we can win an election , and “who cares about Palestinians anyway?” can be read as the priority of this Labor Party . Then , the First thing they do after winning the election is sack the only Muslim MP , Ed Husic , who has been an excellent Science Minister . Simply shocking in its level of inhumanity . And now the latest grovel to mining barbarians will be the permission given for Woodside to go right ahead with whatever environmental crimes they wish to commit .
How much longer will the Australian public be prepared to tolerate this amoral behaviour ? Senator Watt in his new portfolio
has likely been given his instructions . Just as Albanese trampled upon the Environmental deals that Tanya Plibersek had been working on. Albanese should reflect a little more deeply on the reasons he won this election , as being only marginally less catastrophic than the Coalition .
Thanks for comparing this to our stance on apartheid South Africa. I often refer to this, as it reflects a time when our leaders were leaders ... now they are like barking dogs chasing the cars of public opinion or motivated by a desire to ingratiate themselves to the US or Israel.
I am also struck that Wong not only considers the deaths of these two Israelis more significant than the deaths of 60 - 200,000 Palestinians, but also feels empowered to use it to launch an attack on those who oppose genocide. I recall that Israel's targeting and killing of WCT staff, including an Australian did not warrant such a strong response from Wong.
And finally, on antisemitism. Reports indicate the killing (which may arguably be described as an act of terrorism) had nothing to do with Judaism, and more to do with the actions of a political state. By pulling the antisemitism card, Wong is arguing, effectively, that all Jews support a state committing genocide because they are Jews, so therefore criticism of that states actions is antisemitic. That in itself is an act of antisemitism.
There's no denying that Albanese and the Neolaboral Political Party are very clever politicians.
Albanese is also reputed to be genuinely caring and decent, as are many others in his party.
All we've seen so far is lashings of the former and bugger all of the latter.
Yes Australia could do a whole lot more in word and action. I agree that the silent treatment worked for the ALP govt - and I think would work for a LNP govt if they were in. Israel is too far away and the MSM does not show Australia the impact.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-100-days-photo-gallery-b37dd435701fa583b8f857e024dc39a5
I think that the conflation of views of Israeli committing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza with accusations of anti Semitism are holding govt, commentators and people back from expressing views and taking action. I am not anti Semitic or anti Buddhist or anti Christian just because I am against countries committing genocide. I am as much against graffiti on synagogues as I am of explosives blowing up children - it does not matter who is doing it.
https://truthlytics.com/20-ongoing-genocides-you-should-know-about/
As a South African Australian of 25 years I remember seeing but not understanding (I was 19 yrs old) the commitment shown by what we thought of as our Australia and NZ "friends" in the Commonwealth in boycotting and campaigning against Apartheid SA and dropping flour bombs on rugby fields (NZ 1981).
Where is that commitment today? Especially now that flour is stuck on trucks at the gates of Gaza and not being dropped from the sky.
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Excellent article, thank you. My take on why they acting like this is because they are afraid of backlash from Trump's America if they do or say anything that might draw negative attention. Their continuation of AUKUS falls into the same pattern of behaviour and behind it all is the trauma arising from 'The Dismissal' when the anglosphere powers turned on and savaged the ALP. They are scared of it happening again. Morally reprehensible for sure and a distinct lack of bottle, but not wrong either.