It keeps going bad—ok Dutton woulda been worse.
But whose demands is Wong supporting?
Israel’s demands.
“Foreign Minister Penny Wong has joined demands for Iran to stop its nuclear weapons program & come to the negotiating table within two-week deadline. https://t.co/rSgxi2Ikhc
Our ABC can show Israelis living in underground carparks, can interview them, and show damage caused by missiles. Yet they can’t show anything of Gaza, let alone interview Palestinians, or show the IDF targeting starving people lined up to receive food. Video is readily available
Australia shows no hesitation condemning Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine but quibbles and stays mute on the flouting of international law by Israel and the United States.
Trump just said they destroyed Iran’s nuclear program. So Israel can stop bombing Iran now, right? Because it was all about a “nuclear threat,” right?
Like Gaza was about the hostages.
As Trump moves the Overton window into the fucking gutter, it will be journalists that do the heavy lifting, normalising this rot. You'll see it in their language, in their framing and focus, in their unchallenged repetition of his cruelty. They will try to kill your soul.
@IanCarrollShow And so the solution is to allow and enable the forced displacement of 2 million Palestinians to 'somewhere else' so the US and ultimately Israel can have Gaza?
It's been quite something to watch discourse travel in real time from "Of course Israel isn't going to ethnically cleanse Gaza how dare you even suggest it!" to "Why won't Palestinians accept this perfectly reasonable offer to be ethnically cleansed from Gaza?"
Barely a blink.
It’s really not good that Albanese can vocalise indefinitely against the evils of anti semitism, yet stays silent on Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse 2million Palestinians in Gaza.
This is not good & nobody will convince me otherwise.
Former head of SBS TV responds to Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in @johnmenadue
'I watched Trump’s joint press conference with Netanyahu, in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march everywhere, but that press conference seemed to herald an age of naked fascism.'
'After the press conference, I did not hear a single question about ethnic cleansing, genocide, occupation or international law. Under the new fascist leaders, just like under the old ones, those words have become old-fashioned and are to be expunged from the lexicon. The difference has never been more striking between the meek who officially hold the title “journalist” and the brave who actually work to hold the powerful to account. Now, more than ever, independent journalists are a threatened species. We should treasure them, support them and protest every attempt to silence them.'
'Gaza is now the prototype. We can forget international laws and international organisations. We have the bombs. You do as we wish or you will be obliterated.'
'Netanyhu praises Trump for thinking outside the box. Here is an idea that Israel has spent billions on arms and propaganda to persuade people that it is dangerously outside the box. Instead of asking Egypt and Jordan to take the Palestinians, why not make Israel end the occupation and give Palestinians equal rights in their own homeland?'
Trump’s plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism
https://t.co/hBzmPhuL7W
@jwiechers@Alonso_GD That's how it feels. It's illegal but who/what is going to stop it? No one in the West is going to support the Palestinians to defend themselves. There won't be sanctions on Trump or the US. The UN has no power. If he really wants to do this what's to stop him?
We are about to have mandatory jailing for hate crime in this country, but we remain silent on the hate speech that calls for the ethnic cleansing of 2 million people?