Keep in mind, that while all this is happening, not once did Israel stop bombing Gaza.
NOT ONCE.
Massacres are happening as we speak.
The genocide is still ongoing.
The Govt was ordered to disclose politically sensitive #AUKUS nuclear waste site info, but @AlboMP’s has instead launched a nuclear strike on transparency with significant #FOI fallout. @DavidShoebridge has called it an “ugly precedent in secrecy”. #auspol https://t.co/uIzLBhzRbz
Chris Sidoti, UN Human Rights investigator, Law expert:
"Every Australian citizen who has dual nationality and who has served in the IDF in the GENOCIDE in Gaza since 7/Oct/2023 must be investigated as war criminals and prosecuted."
All of them. Who else agrees with Chris?
I just heard the @BBC radio say that the Israeli army was attacking Hezbollah targets yesterday & they also platformed someone bloviating about how Iran is ‘occupying’ Lebanon.
As a frontline journalist on the ground for the last 18 months, I would like to reiterate that I have not see any Iranian occupation bases in Lebanon. I have not seen any children killed here by Iranian bombs. I haven’t seen the IRGC massacring entire families on a daily basis. The IRGC has not shot at me or killed dozens of my colleagues in targeted attacks. Iran has not been systematically murdering healthcare workers (over 130) in Lebanon.
Israel has violently invaded and occupied Lebanon. The flag flying over the base in Al Khiam is an Israeli flag, not an Iranian flag. (Photo below)
The Lebanese Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 3,613 civilians have been killed and 11,072 have been wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd.
In what lexicon is ethnically cleansing one quarter of a neighbouring state "taking a much tougher stance". Shameful complicity in war crimes by @SkyNews@adamparsons
There was a point, 3 yrs ago, when Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals. Then it realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. And so here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.
Hospitals in flames and children buried beneath rubble in homes, in flagrant violation of international law, with absolutely no consequences.
Israel is committing another genocide in real time in Lebanon with complete impunity.
Here is the truth of it and why I cannot understand how anyone can support this.
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, key excerpts:
‘Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase of the plan: making the entire population of Gaza permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed.
Once Gaza's population is reduced to a disparate mass without an organized society, without basic services, essential institutions and, of course, without leadership, the complete disintegration of the social fabric will make it easier for Israel to move to the next phase, which it has never relinquished, the phase of expulsion…
Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X, "… The voluntary migration plan will also be implemented, all at the proper time and in the proper manner." In other words, the Gazans will be turned into a "herd" that will be easy to transport far away "at the proper time and in the proper manner."..
The "eradication of the Hamas regime" in Gaza isn't aimed at this objective alone. Since Israel has categorically opposed Gaza's governance by any Palestinian body – not the Palestinian Authority, not an international organization, not anything, and is also not willing to govern the Strip itself – the cat is out of the bag: Israel doesn't want any organization to govern in Gaza. It wants 2 million people in tents. It will make their expulsion easier….
The only alternative to Hamas' civilian rule at the moment is anarchy. That chaos is good for Israel and the realization of its plan.
Israeli propaganda can continue to scream that Gaza equals Hamas and that Hamas equals terrorists. That's a lie, of course. Not only is everyone in Gaza not Hamas, but not everyone defined as Hamas is a terrorist. Israel knows full well that tens of thousands of teachers, doctors, police officers and government officials whose salaries come from the Hamas government aren't terrorists. Defining them as such allowed Israel to kill thousands of them, under the label of "terrorists." Traffic cops, accountants and teachers aren't terrorists and cannot be marked for death. Their killing was, and is, a war crime. So, too, journalists carrying Hamas-issued press cards are not terrorists. They might be propagandists, as are many Israeli journalists, but they are not terrorists.
Israel killed two birds with one stone: legitimacy, albeit false, for indiscriminate killing, alongside an additional stage in the realization of its grand plan. No society can function without teachers, doctors, social workers, engineers and clerks, and without a functioning society, it's easy to expel Gaza's residents to the four corners of the earth.
On Thursday the latest episode of "The Tucker Carlson Show" aired, featuring a two-hour interview with Dr. Nick Maynard, an Oxford-educated British surgeon who has volunteered in Gaza for around 17 years, on and off. The atrocities that he described having witnessed were jaw-dropping: corpses in handcuffs, teenage boys who were brought in for surgery after having been shot in the testicles, babies who died of starvation and preemies left in incubators, on IDF orders, when a hospital was evacuated, and found dead a few weeks later…’
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The ICJ has ruled that govts and orgs are obliged not to lend any form of support to illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. So I again implore the Aus Govt to take meaningful action to hold Israel to account. To do anything less makes us complicit. #politas#auspol
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BHP seeks urgent suppression orders in trial against coal miner and MWM publisher https://t.co/tG51TXAkmG via @MichaelWestBiz
John Howard waged a war against public institutions. He privatised aged care, supercharged public spending on private schools and created the hellscape that is job services and mutual obligations.
Labor opposed all of these things at the time. Now it's their policy platform 🤷