A five-minute scroll of X uncovers abhorrent settler behaviour, questions about Peter Dutton’s nuclear platform, South Africa speaking out for Palestine in the UN, Chris Sidoti on the Israeli Army, Genocide Tourism and news of Julian Assange. (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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A five-minute scroll
As Israel bombs Lebanon a five minute scroll on X uncovers the brutality and the voices that are speaking out against it, calling out Australia’s role as a puppet state. (more…)
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Never forget the Sabra and Shatila massacre 16 September 1982
“The killers were often not satisfied with killing; in many cases, the attackers cut off the limbs of their victims before finishing them off. They smash the heads of children and infants on the walls. Women and girls were raped before being killed with axes. Men are sometimes taken out of their homes in groups to be killed in masse in the street with axes and knives. Militias spread terror and killed men, women, children and the elderly without discrimination. They would not distinguish between Christians and Muslims, Lebanese and Palestinians. Some have been hanged, and others have had their stomachs cut out.” (more…)
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Paging a new rogue state- state sponsored terrorism
Exploding pagers and two-way radios. What a brilliant act of ….. state-sponsored terrorism. Or a classic destruction of an adversary’s command and control communications ability. (more…)
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Gazing at the Gorgon in Gaza
There are many world events now that are hard to take. Many horrors that are hard to watch. Many emotions that overwhelm us. In fear, we can freeze. Our hearts can turn to stone. (more…)
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A depraved new low for Israel
We are witnessing a depraved, rogue nation which perhaps believes that every act of violence and horror it perpetuates is justified in the name of… what? (more…)
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These are the things I’ve learnt you can’t ask about Israel
In recent years, I have been asked to comment on the Middle East “impasse”, though I am no foreign policy expert. I am merely one of many humanists who mourn this tragic history and rail against the failure of the international community to exert the great influence it has to bring peace and justice to innocent civilians in this area of the world. (more…)
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Invisible Israeli influences tip the balance
The Palestine/Israel narrative in Australia is skewed by the influence of underground forces. (more…)
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Pager slaughter in Lebanon, humanity of no consequence
Thousands of Lebanese citizens, injured or murdered by apparent Israeli planted explosives in pagers and other communications devices, are referred to as Hezbollah operatives, even though victims have included small children. (more…)
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The Jewish Chronicle has long served as a vehicle for Zionist propaganda
A British publication that takes pride in its status as the oldest Jewish newspaper in the world has lately faced enormous embarrassment after highlighting an “exclusive” investigative report that was dismissed as a fabrication by Israeli media as well as military and intelligence spokesmen. (more…)
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The Albanese Government is isolating Australia and not serving the national interest by appeasing Israel
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution submitted by the State of Palestine demanding that “Israel brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, … no later than 12 months from the adoption of the present resolution” and that “Israel comply without delay with all its legal obligations under international law, including as stipulated by the International Court of Justice”. The resolution’s provisions are consistent with the UN Charter, international law, and the decision of the International Court of Justice. (more…)
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Jewish Council disappointed at Australia’s UN abstention, calls for strong international action to prevent Israeli war crimes
The Jewish Council of Australia says it is deeply disappointed at Australia’s abstention from a critical United Nations General Assembly resolution calling on Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months. The resolution passed with 124 votes in favour, highlighting global frustration with Israel’s actions. (more…)
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United Nations General Assembly votes to demand Israel end Palestinian occupation, Australia abstains
The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted in favour of a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year. (more…)
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UN vote: Newspaper raises irrelevant questions about an ICJ decision
The exclusive ‘US urges Australia over UN’s Israel vote’, published in Tuesday’s The Australian by Ben Packham, demands a response. (more…)
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The world’s chance to confront US-Israeli genocide
The UN General Assembly is set to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. (more…)
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Gaza officials publish list of those killed in Israeli assault. The first 14 pages are babies
“This is a genocide of children,” said Heba Gowayed, a sociology professor at the City University of New York’s Hunter College. (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
Pulling children out of rubble, witnessing ill-treatment of Palestinian civilians by Israeli soldiers, witnessing the displaced Gazan population work its way through destroyed streets. In Australia, the Senate debate on housing. These are the items we found on our five-minute scroll on X. (more…)
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How to ensure a Gaza ceasefire
We are all appalled by the scale of the deaths and destruction in Gaza. Every day brings more terrible news. (more…)
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If Gaza carnage continues, then nobody is safe
The description of Armageddon may be (to some) a fictional drama of woe and horror, yet what we are witnessing in Gaza could surely fit the defining crescendo of anarchic violence as described in the book of Revelation. In the biblical story there is an unleashing of the beast who wreaks havoc on earth. The weak and vulnerable Palestinians and those unable to feed themselves, let alone defend themselves against weapons, bombing, cholera, polio and death, quite possibly feel a resemblance to the biblical hell on earth. (more…)
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Why Netanyahu chooses war over peace
As protests grow, Benjamin Netanyahu clings to power in what appears to be a gambit to shape his own political and legal future, regardless of the cost. (more…)
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Five-minute scroll
We start the week with our five-minute scroll on X to bring you a sample of the world and local issues that may not be found in our mainstream media. Today the first posts we saw include the plea to educate yourself on the history of Israel’s actions in Gaza, Malcolm Turnbull talks reality regarding AUKUS, Yemen sends a missile 2000 kilometres into Israel, the Philippines speaks to peaceful coexistence with China and Miriam Margolyes speaks out about Israel to the Jewish community in Australia. (more…)
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Antisemitism tangle: Can ridicule depict reality?
Current responses to the Gaza “war” would seem to suggest that antisemitism is the priority issue, not the unending slaughter of Palestinians. (more…)
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Aiding and abetting and war crimes
The participation of four Israeli arms companies in the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition in Melbourne is a clear instance of the Australian Government aiding and abetting the commission of an ongoing war crime in Gaza. (more…)
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The man from Bethlehem and the dangers of hypocrisy
In population terms, the deaths in Gaza since 7 October would be equivalent to killing about one million Australians. (more…)
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How do they sleep at night?
“I think it’s important to recognise that probably the three things that characterise Israel and the Israeli Government are arrogance, brutality and stupidity. And those are the three elements that guides them in their actions. Their arrogance is they think Palestinians’ lives are not important. They think Palestinians are nothing which is what racist regimes think about the ‘other’. Their brutality, like I said from day one, they’ve demonstrated horrific brutality and cruelty towards the Palestinians. And their stupidity is when you get to know them closely and you are behind the scenes, when you take a look at the details and you just take a look at the lack of their foresight, you can see just how stupid they are.” – Miko Peled, Israeli dissident and peace activist (more…)
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ABC’s belated reporting on 7 Oct helps justify genocide
Mick Hall analyses an Australian Broadcasting Corporation story — 11 months into a genocide — on the Israeli military’s use of the Hannibal Directive to kill its own citizens. (more…)
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A foul formula: Zionism x Appeasement = Genocide
The capitulation by seemingly intelligent and decent-minded national leaders to the Holocaust Industry’s relentless campaign to validate any action by Israel in the current conflict in Palestine is seriously affecting the political landscape. It seems that the leaders of “the Western World” have learned nothing from nearly a century of calamitous events. (more…)
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The defence of self-defence
As Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza continues unabated after 11 months, the Labor Government recites ad infinitum its talking point, borrowed from the Biden/Harris playbook, that Israel has the right to defend itself, thereby legitimising its carpet-bombing and indiscriminate mass killing of Palestinian civilians. Treating the atrocities of 7 October as an isolated event that came out of the blue buttresses the self-defence line, de-contextualising it from decades of brutal subjugation of Palestinians, which have fuelled their resistance against the settler-colonial apartheid state. (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
On X today: US Politicians launch a bill against China’s world leading genomics team and Andrew Wilkie addresses arms trade with Israel. Witness the devastation for a 13-year old in Palestine while Palestine takes its permanent seat in the UN General Assembly. Finally, a moment from the US presidential debate – Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on Israel, the Middles East and Ukraine. (more…)
