“If I were rich, I would have a plaque made up, and sent to every judge in America, bearing a statement made by Adam Smith more than two and a half centuries ago: ‘Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.’”
— Thomas Sowell
The only place in the world where there are mass protests against Hamas is inside Gaza.
Where is the solidarity with the Palestinians who do not support Hamas' jihad and just want to live in peace??
If the police had heeded the pleas of Australian Jews, and arrested, investigated & charged or deported the “Gas the Jews” marchers, 15 innocents would still be alive, and Bondi would still be famous as an iconic beach—not as a massacre site. But they chose to pander to jihadis.
Senate president Sue Lines banned Pauline Hanson from wearing the Aussie flag in the Senate, but had no issue with Mehreen Faruqi wearing a keffiyeh every day for over 2 years
One cannot infer how the votaries of a book behave from the text of that book. Groups who revere the same New Testament have practiced and abolished slavery, enacted pacifism and crusades, burned heretics and defended religious liberty, sheltered Jews and murdered them, attacked and defended Ukraine…
There is no such thing as the content of a text without interpretation. Accepting that there is an 'essential form' of a religion is endorsing the dogma of fundamentalists.
Bondi. Manchester. Washington DC. Colorado, and the rest.
Everyone who spent two years spreading antisemitic blood libels straight from Hamas: blood on their hands.
Everyone sucked in by Hamas propaganda and spent two years shrieking online about Gaza: blood on their hands.
Everyone who attended the weekly hate marches that created this permissive antisemitic atmosphere: blood on their hands.
Everyone who took Qatari or Iranian media money to lie about Israel: blood on their hands.
South Africa and their fellow travellers, Amnesty International, and the rest pushing vexatious genocide slurs: blood on their hands.
The countries who rewarded Hamas’s 7th October massacre by recognising a Palestinian state: blood on their hands.
Every politician who ignored the warning signs time, after time, after time again: blood on their hands.
The NSW government's plans to upzone Sydney's North Shore are being bitterly contested.
A Lindfield resident provides a good description of the (typical) issues at stake.
Seems he's been driven into hiding by unchecked intimidation. In several notorious cases of this, starting with Salman Rushdie's, governments have dismally failed in their first and most fundamental duty.
Also, @X, note there can't be free speech where intimidation is tolerated.
If our civilisation dies out, either a distant alien or a phoenix civilisation on earth will sift thru our rubble and find the book “The Beginning of Infinity” and think to themselves… you had this book all along and you STILL died out? In retrospect, it would seem inconceivable
Julian Assange is receiving a fair trial today.
The Belarusian dissidents and Afghan informants whose names he helped leak to the Belarusian dictatorship and the Taliban did not have the same privilege.