Palestinians must start discussing radical solutions to end Israeli occupation, apartheid and settler-colonialism. (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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In Gaza, more Palestinians will be killed by starvation and disease than those killed by bombs
We are told that the high intensity phase of Israel’s war in Gaza is coming to an end. As world leaders contemplate new wars and a compliant media gets busy with freshly minted threats, there are fewer stories on Gaza. Let us not be lulled into believing that, for those besieged in Gaza, the worst is over. And let us continue to call for an end to their plight. (more…)
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Will Senator Payman influence Australian Government decision makers?
Senator Fatima Payman is one of the youngest members of the Albanese Government. Until recently she was unknown to most Australians except in her home state of Western Australia. She first came to attention when she publicly challenged the Prime Minister to be more vocal about genocide in Gaza and this was followed by a Senate debate critical of her and the use of the term “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.” (more…)
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As Israel’s Gaza genocide death-toll passes 38,000: recognising Palestinian State now critical
Currently, the Palestine issue has become a question of how to get Israel to vacate and stop controlling Palestinian territories. That requires Israel to accept that it cannot continue pretending Palestine does not exist. Thankfully for Palestinians, however, it looks like much of the world already recognises that Palestine is a state. (more…)
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Where Olive Trees Weep – Australia must recognise Palestine
An open letter to Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Dutton, Senator Wong, Senator Birmingham and Senator Patterson. Yesterday you, or your party, opposed a motion which would have encouraged Australia to join a growing majority of the world’s countries that recognise Palestine. Why did you do that? (more…)
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The sun sets on the American empire: the Gaza debacle
The mayhem of the last eight months suggests that the United States remains ascendant in the Middle East, and its global hegemonic presence undiminished. Reality points in a different direction. In this series, Joseph Camilleri explains how, despite its global military reach and expanding alliances in Europe and Asia, America today stands adrift and diminished. Gaza, Ukraine and the China obsession tell the story. (more…)
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Israel’s Moshe Feiglin repeats Hitler quote at AJA event
“I said on one of the Israeli channels… that he, Hitler, cannot live in the same world as long as one Jew still lives. This Islamo Nazism and the Jews cannot live together. Definitely, not in the same world, he [Hitler] said. But definitely not in the same country. That’s what I said. … And I said, from the river to the sea… it’s either you or me” – Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin at the Australian Jewish Association, June 19, 2024. (more…)
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What kind of people threaten prosecutors?
Without naming names, a joint statement by 93 countries in a show of support for the International Criminal Court is an unmistakable rebuke of the lawlessness of US and Israel. (more…)
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Unrepentant, independent stirrers in election year
Imminent elections in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom are affected by two long-running concerns: Palestine and the decline of the West. Responses to them will also affect the 2025 elections in Australia. (more…)
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‘I’m permanently pissed off’- just one feature of a Gaza malaise
In response to the question, ‘Do you despair over the slaughters in Gaza’, a close friend responded, ‘When I hear the news, I’m angry and permanently pissed off. I also recognise that anger can lead to despair.’ (more…)
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UN Human Rights Commission: Israel’s is among the most criminal armies in the world. Chris Sidoti
Palestinians have experienced 70 or 80 years of dispossession, occupation, and human rights violations. (more…)
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Counting the environmental toll of war – and why peace is a climate solution
One’s immediate thought on looking at any of the multitude of photos of the devastation of Gaza is a profound sense of sorrow and grief at the capacity of humans to wreak such destruction and suffering.
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The Jewish community raise their voice to call out extremists
The Jewish Council of Australia, according to reports by Al Jazeera, is deeply concerned that the Australian Jewish Association is promoting the far-right Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin as a speaker at an Australian Zoom event, apparently held on 19 June, notwithstanding that Feiglin has recently quoted Adolf Hitler in reference to the wiping out of Gaza’s population. (more…)
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Palestinians want liberation, not recognition
This commentary is part of a Century International series exploring a shared future for Palestine and Israel that guarantees the fundamental rights of both communities. The Gaza war has exposed the bankruptcy of the existing policy frameworks. Our “Shared Future” series intends to spur conversation and promote new, better options for security, rights, and governance—for Palestinians and Israelis. (more…)
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Israelis are celebrating mass slaughter in Gaza
What does it say about a society that mainstreams the killing and silencing of Palestinians? (more…)
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Australia must recognise Palestine to promote peace
Such a move would support the peace efforts, not undermine them, as some have argued. (more…)
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Israeli abuse of Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’: Lawyer
Barghouti has been relocated to 3 different locations and last December, his lawyer recounted how he was “dragged on the floor naked in front of other prisoners” in Ayalon prison. (more…)
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Why has the Australian Parliament failed to debate the tragedy of Gaza?
A majority of Australians want a ceasefire in Gaza, but the Australian Parliament seems more preoccupied with political brinkmanship than recognition of this tragedy.
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Nero’s guests: Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war
Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that is even more savage than that of apartheid South Africa. Its ‘democracy’ — which was always exclusively for Jews — has been hijacked by extremists who are pushing the country towards fascism. (more…)
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The elephant in the Zionist classroom
What is it about the Australian Jewish community, Australian Jewish ‘faith’ schools and Israel? (more…)
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“Back from the West Bank”
In answer to Chas Freeman’s devastating question: “Does Israel deserve to exist?”
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Merchants of death prolong slaughter in Ukraine, Gaza
Last week activists in Brisbane CBD took their voices and violin to the doorstop of giant American weapons and aircraft company Boeing. To denounce Boeing, along with other US, Australian and UK based ammunition and weapons manufacturers for prolonging the wars in Gaza and the Ukraine in order to make huge profits from civilian suffering and dying. (more…)
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Dig deeper
I dug a hole in the garden
I don’t why just felt like digging
Just broke up with my girlfriend
I needed something … something to do
Soon I’d dug so deep
The sky was just a window above me
But I didn’t care … mmm
Looking for something deeperJackson Jackson (2006) (more…)
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UN probe finds Israel guilty of ‘Extermination,’ torture, and other war crimes in Gaza
“Israel must immediately stop its military operations and attacks in Gaza, including the assault on Rafah,” said the chair of the United Nations commission behind the investigation. (more…)
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Only on Palestine, words speak louder than actions
“When will you finish them?” These aren’t words you normally hear while waiting in line for a coffee in the Sydney CBD. (more…)
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A lot of awful things can happen in a week
President Biden has now announced a ‘roadmap’ for Gaza that has been doing the rounds for weeks, and Australia has loyally supported it with a contribution of $A10 million. But much more time, money, and negotiations will be needed if the three-stage plan is to be a success. (more…)
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Hostages have been freed, who cares about the Palestinian unpeople?
It’s been a month since I relocated to a new town. It’s been traumatic. The emotions have run wild and the somatic reactions strong. At the epicentre of this emotional firestorm is a deep, wounding sense of dislocation, of severed connections with people and place. (more…)
