Russ Hunter

Husband, Dad, Scallywag. Trying to do my bit of eternal vigilance.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The least the UK can do is investigate war crimes by its citizens. [Don't hold your breath, though...]

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

It’s time for the Federal Police to investigate Australians who are returned Israeli Defense Force soldiers.

“Any Australian who has committed war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide must be held to account and face justice.

“The international rules-based order must be respected and upheld, and the Australian Government must honour its obligations to bring accountability for perpetrators of these grave crimes.

“The impunity must come to an end.”

AFP urged to investigate Australians allegedly involved in Gaza genocide https://t.co/yNbOXPOiE0

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

AFP urged to investigate Australians allegedly involved in Gaza genocide | Pearls and Irritations
‘The referral is supported by a substantial evidentiary dossier prepared by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), .. cont https://t.co/MKWZNG3HnR

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Deliberately blocking aid is a WAR CRIME. Where is the media coverage?

[Michael Pascoe @MichaelPascoe01]

The Australian and associated tabloids have long ceased being newspapers. They are political organs operating with a news facade.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

My piece in the @GuardianAus today arguing govts can't afford to repeat the mistakes they made with the gas industry.

With huge investment in data centres - why aren't we asking what this is all for and how Australians are going to benefit from it?

If we do want data centres and multinational tech giants are going to use Australian land, Australian energy, Australian water & Australian workers to build the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution, then Australians deserve a fair return.

That's the lesson we failed to learn with gas. We shouldn't wait another generation to learn it again.
https://t.co/HJvwk474L9

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Incredible night for Ukraine, taking out Russian oil infrastructure and military targets from St Petersburg to the Urals.

2000km from Ukraine, in Tyumen, the Antipinsky Oil Refinery, capacity 9 million tons/year burns after early morning strikes.

[Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف @ofercass]

About six weeks ago, a settler named Eliya came to the home of my friend Issa Amro in Tel Rumeida in Hebron, attacked the house with rocks, and threatened to take it over.

Issa filed a complaint and the settler, as usual, was released.
He returned last night again with his criminal accomplices, this time to lay bare the depth of the settlers' lust for plunder, expulsion and ethnic cleansing under the auspices of the government of blood and the occupation regime.

We all must stand against one of the greatest terrorist crimes of modern history: the illegal and brutal occupation of the Palestinian territories.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

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[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Israeli strikes that killed Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists cannot be dismissed as a “mistake.” Why did Israeli forces attack a clearly identifiable group of journalists in southern Lebanon. https://t.co/3vOKPLRKBv

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Lynching mobs.
Pogroms.
Genocidal acts.
Racism.
Suprematism.
Absolute impunity.

The failure of the post-WWII system in a nutshell.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel responds to Iran's retaliatory strikes by cutting off all aid to Gaza.

This is a state which routinely collectively punishes civilians as a tactic of war.

This is monstrous, and it is also a grave war crime.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

It’s been many hours since Israeli forces shot and killed a 7-month-old Palestinian infant in the occupied West Bank, and I still don’t see any headlines from NYT, AP, CNN, Washington Post, Sky News…

Israel murdering babies is so normalized that it barely registers as news.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Sidoti: Here is what Australia should do
‘•The first action should be a wide ranging review to identify the many ways in which Australia’s relations with Israel support Israel committing international crimes. 

•Trade and diplomatic measures include ceasing all defence-related trade with Israel, including dual-use products, components, materials and technology, and ending trade and cooperative ventures with companies developing military items for use by Israel. Australia should also withdraw Australian defence and trade officials from our Tel Aviv embassy and impose secondary sanctions on states conducting defence-related trade with Israel.

•Accountability measures comprise Australia affirming its commitment to enforce international criminal court arrest warrants for Israeli political and military leaders, along with imposing personal sanctions against these leaders and Israeli settlers responsible for violence in the West Bank.

•Legal enforcement actions include investigating and prosecuting Australian citizens who have served in the Israel Defense Forces since October 2023 for potential war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide, while prohibiting Australian citizens from fighting in foreign armed forces. The full force of Australian law should be applied to Australians who commit international crimes, as the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has said.

•Settlement-focused measures would prohibit financial transactions with illegal Israeli settlements and end tax deductibility for Australian charities providing funding to organisations supporting illegal settlements.
Additionally, Australia should provide at least 15,000 humanitarian places for Palestinian refugees from Gaza and restore scholarship eligibility for Palestinians to undertake tertiary studies in Australia.
This is not a wishlist. It is the simple implementation of legal obligations. Australia wants to be a good international citizen. This is how it can be that.’

https://t.co/gnkldB6toX

[Michael Pascoe @MichaelPascoe01]

The WA submarine base we're building for the US:

"In fact, it is a forward-operational deployment of the US Navy, independent of AUKUS"

https://t.co/XUmgpX4qve

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[Antoinette Lattouf @antoinette_news]

Avi Yemini, who this week interviewed Charlie Pickering over Grace Tame's ABC podcast series, has previously mounted campaigns against the former Aust of the Year — including using a website domain that bears her name and redirects users to a petition
https://t.co/kzcvYVsnRx

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

Ed Husic is spot on!
Crushing legitimate debate over AUKUS is counterproductive, weakens Labor and stifles sensible policy development.
“Left” MP’s attempting to isolate Ed, spouting warmongering nonsense and using a warped sense of “solidarity” and “discipline” is pathetic.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The goal was always occupation and land.