Alex Cha

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

We've been warning for months: US/EU support for Israel risks wider war. 6 months of genocide. Constant attacks on neighbours to provoke war, incl. Iran's consulate. Total impunity. No restraints. No consequences. That's why this is happening. To avert war, stop helping cause it.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

'Suicide drones'? Would be good to see media reporting that Israel bombed Iran embassy and Iran has responded - and *not* with ballistic missiles

[Abul Rizvi @RizviAbul]

Never realised Howard’s role in our housing crisis went so far back and was so extensive. https://t.co/PGi2n5Oewt

[Dan Fangirl 🤓 @ChristyDanFan]

THE LIBERAL WAY TO GO: As a Victorian who is a millennial, I often find myself in social settings where people randomly bring up the fact that Jeff Kennett decided to close down mental health facilities. Larundel is one that people often bring up.
It just happens. Random conversations with people who have had people close to them end up Larundel or Mont Park.
There is a lot of anger at the fact that Jeff Kennett decided to close that facility. Even almost 30 years after the fact. I also find myself at times listening to people talk about the fact that Jeff Kennett happened to sell off all the tech schools in Victoria in the nineties when he was premier. And how he sold off Victoria’s power companies to multinationals. And those multinationals have made billions off Victorians.
In saying all of this, this isn’t just unique to Victoria. This is just what Liberal governments do. Across the board. Why would anybody vote for that?

[Ben Schalman @OfficialT_P_V]

India’s largest maritime union has announced that they refuse to load weapons destined for israel.

This is a landmark achievement for workers and unions, India as a country and humanity as a whole.

Let this be a reminder that not all of India supports israel.

[jansant @Jansant]

Will @theage give the victims of Z600 a right of reply, @PatrickElligett?
Will The Age report what members of Z600 were doing?
Actions of some in the group may be a crime under current laws - successful civil action embarrassing after such blatant bias.
https://t.co/6orp8cmOen

[ABC News @abcnews]

ANALYSIS: The horrors of Gaza are almost unspeakable. As difficult as all this is to read and to watch, it's important the world does not look away, writes John Lyons. https://t.co/hjgQKdwMlN

[Garth ..... Gasu - ガース @gasugasu1984]

@joshburnsmp You don't seem at all distressed about the genocide Israel is committing. Are you distressed that the Zionists doxed were part of a whatsapp group trying to silence peopl for supporting Palestine?

[Ms Grumpy Pants @MsGrumpyPants]

@joshburnsmp Doxxing is not nice but neither is a concerted group campaign on WhatsApp naming and targeting people and trying to get them sacked or impacted professionally for speaking out on the genocide in Gaza.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander eh?

[Alex Cha @AlexChariott]

@SkyNewsAust https://t.co/WHWLXzkzvh

[💧Paulkaz 🧢 @Paulkaz12]

@jeremyleibler @antoinette_news is not Jewish. She was a respected journalist at @abcnews reporting on previously reported aspects of the Israel Gaza conflict.
She was doxxed and sacked by @abcnews.
How could this happen in Australia?

[Sarah Schwartz @Sarah__Schwartz]

I got harassed in November from people I grew up with for saying that we were taught that Israeli lives were more valuable than Palestinians.

As Israel now indiscriminately bombs Rafah, slaughtering over 100 Palestinians to retrieve 2 Israelis - and this is celebrated without qualification by the Zionist lobby & 'roof body' for Aus Jews @ZionistFedAus - how could anyone possibly say that Zionism teaches anything else?

https://t.co/bS6YvYzm7q

[Alex Cha @AlexChariott]

@JulieSzego @ramonakoval https://t.co/WHWLXzl7kP

[💧Paulkaz 🧢 @Paulkaz12]

@jeremyleibler @antoinette_news is not Jewish. She was a respected journalist at @abcnews reporting on previously reported aspects of the Israel Gaza conflict.
She was doxxed and sacked by @abcnews.
How could this happen in Australia?

[Alex Cha @AlexChariott]

@ZionistFedAus @jeremyleibler https://t.co/WHWLXzl7kP

[💧Paulkaz 🧢 @Paulkaz12]

@jeremyleibler @antoinette_news is not Jewish. She was a respected journalist at @abcnews reporting on previously reported aspects of the Israel Gaza conflict.
She was doxxed and sacked by @abcnews.
How could this happen in Australia?

[marquelawyers @marquelawyers]

FFS can we please stop making laws with no rational basis whatsoever

[Alex Cha @AlexChariott]

@AdamBandt Israel has repeatedly showed how good its at targeted operations. In 2010 CCTV showed a Mossad team armed with tennis racquets casually strolling to aHamas leaders Dubai hotel room to take him out

So why routinely drop bombs that take out 🏡 for kms. https://t.co/3v8qEdb3Y8

[Adam Bandt @AdamBandt]

“I’m so scared, please come,” were some of the last words six-year-old Hind Rajab said to rescuers after her family’s car came under fire.

Her story is only one example of the brutality of the Israeli gov’s invasion of Gaza - which Labor, unconscionably, still supports.

[Nick Riemer @NickRiemer1]

While IDF bombs and missiles sadistically pound Rafah, a special thought for the Australian branches of weapons manufacturers and the universities that support them, including my own.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

If an “in-house” lobbyist can get an MP/Senator to sign a pass form, then they can access all areas - no rules, no disclosure.

This is extremely privileged access that the vast majority of 🇦🇺 will never have.

Transparency should be a bare minimum.
https://t.co/SEdaMFP8jg

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just imagine we had the recording of a 6 year old Israeli girl, desperately ringing the emergency services after Hamas militants slaughtered her relatives in a car, including 3 other kids.

Imagine we also had a prior recording of her 15 year old cousin, desperately pleading for help, before you hear her being violently murdered by Hamas gunfire.

Imagine then an Israeli ambulance sent to rescue this little girl was then blown up by Hamas militants, killing both paramedics.

What would be the response?

You know what the response would be.

It would be offered up as evidence of the supreme evil and barbarism of Hamas.

We would be told it showed they’re worse than the Nazis.

It would also be offered up as justification for the need to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth.

Every politician in the West would issue statements dripping with grief and righteous fury.

None of that has happened here.

Instead, the West continue to arm and back Israel’s mass slaughter, with occasional handwringing which its politicians know has zero impact on the behaviour of Israel.

Even as Israel commits some of the worst atrocities of the 21st century - live streamed for the world to see - these Western powers refuse to describe a single act of Israel as a war crime.

Two things.

Firstly, none of this is to downgrade the value of Israeli civilian life. The value attacked to Israel innocent civilians’ lives is correct.

It is just transparently not applied to Palestinian life.

Indeed, secondly, it is nauseating that I even have to indulge in these
“imagine if!” scenarios.

It becomes necessary because Palestinian life has been stripped of nearly all value.

In South Africa’s submission to the ICJ, this horror was described as the world’s first live streamed genocide.

I think even more than that, it’s the live streaming of the suicide of the West.

Much of the world already regarded the West’s claims of moral superiority with contempt.

Well, contempt doesn’t even begin to describe those sentiments now.

I don’t think it’s remotely appreciated how much fury at Western power - which has shrunk with every major conflict involving Muslim nations in the 21st century - is being whipped up.

Finally, this nauseating episode has answered a question I’ve always been haunted by when studying the atrocities of the past.

How did so many people who regarded themselves as humane, moderate, “normal” become so willingly complicit in self evident evil, either by not speaking out or actively cheering it on?

Well, think of the badly decomposing remains of Hind and her family, and the incinerated remains of the paramedics sent to save her, and there’s your answer.

There’s your answer!

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

What changed? If anything the actions of the Israeli State, war crimes, dispossessions, illegal occupations and now a genocide, have only become more blatant in those 20 years...