It’s one way to test just how beholden Australian politicians are to the US and the Israeli Lobby domestically here
With no indication that Israel will heed the Security Council’s demands or, indeed, that it will implement the ICJ’s provisional measures, holding the state accountable may fall to individual countries with the temerity to challenge Washington’s example. Shortly after the Security Council vote, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he would cut ties with Israel if it refused to comply with the resolution. His admonition that others follow suit is already gaining traction, and many countries, including the staunchest U.S. allies, are finding other ways to break with the Washington consensus on Israel.
Source: Even without a UN veto, Gaza remains hostage to American power
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Israel offers excuses rather than food, aid or any concern other than Occupy and Transfer
Israel denied shooting people but when witnesses proved otherwise they claimed they only shot Hamas suspects. On what basis was someone considered a suspect? We have seen Israel shoot hostages and civilians waving white flags. We have seen them bulldoze the evidence. We have then heard their excuse that people were killed in subsequent stampedes. But, how is a stampede started by shooting people!
That’s always been the Israeli way of argument. First denial if that doesn’t work blame the Gazans never Israel. No wonder the world is pissed off. The next step then is the rise of antisemitism and the holocaust. Jews are always the victims.
If antisemitism did exist to the degree Israel claims they wouldn’t be MPs or any elected positions however they are
People in Gaza are suffering severe food shortages, with the UN saying children in northern Gaza are starving to death and famine is looming.
On 29 February more than 100 people were killed when a convoy arrived at al-Rashid Street in Gaza City. Palestinians accused Israel of shooting dead people at the convoy. Israel initially said most were killed being trampled or run over by the convoy. It later said troops had fired at people who it deemed “suspects” who they deemed a threat.
In 2016 I described Trump as follows:
“Australians see Trump as a sick, deluded, and sexually abusive narcissist and corrupt criminal with a limited understanding of complex world problems. He is a crash-through politician with a ubiquitous mouth who is entertaining to some but lacks the worldly character required for leadership.”
And that, has nothing to do with his age.
Source: What has age got to do with it? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Dear Child, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Chris Hedges takes the viewer on an uncompromising journey into the life of a child from Gaza living under Israeli bombardment. The film intentionally challenges the viewer to look at their own actions or lack there of, while also hinting at a possible hopeful future.
Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America.
Source: The American Empire in (Ultimate?) Crisis: The Decline and Fall of It All – ScheerPost
A new documentary by Al Jazeera’s investigative unit has found that many of the most horrific Israeli stories about the Palestinian military assault that began on 7 October were untrue.
“Misinformation has been used, and sometimes deliberate disinformation has been used by official spokespersons,” says one commentator quoted in the documentary, October 7.
The film was viewed by The Electronic Intifada ahead of its first broadcast this week. The video containing the full Al Jazeera documentary will be added to this page as soon as it becomes available on YouTube.
Although not the comprehensive investigation by international experts that many have called for, the documentary does confirm much of the reporting done about 7 October by a small group of independent journalists, who have debunked Israeli atrocity propaganda, at the cost of being smeared and attacked by corporate media.
The Electronic Intifada, The Grayzone, Mondoweiss and The Cradle have all found that many – if not most – of the 1,154 Israelis the government claims were killed by Palestinians were actually killed by Israel itself.
The documentary confirms The Electronic Intifada’s report from January that at midday on 7 October the Israeli army invoked the Hannibal Directive.
As explained in the documentary by Israeli historian Uri Bar-Joseph, “The Hannibal Directive is an informal protocol that says, we prefer that the soldier be killed than taken alive.”
Israel killed Israelis, confirms new 7 October documentary | The Electronic Intifada
Australia is licensed to produce “unguided dumb missiles” which explode shrapnel, killing all soft targets within 50m of the blast, and causing lethal harm to those within a 150m blast radius. Farah Abdurahman confronts the shroud of secrecy over weapons sales to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of Israel.
Source: Client State: Australia the “51st state of the US” for deadly weapons production – Michael West
From immersive art to personal essays and first-person novels, our culture is obsessed the idea of individual experience. Anna Kornbluh, the author of Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism, spoke to Jacobin about why.
Source: Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Individual Experience?
This article is from a contributor who asked to remain anonymous Jewish Ethnic Groups and Genealogy: Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews and Ashkenazi Jews Histori …
Zionism is anti-Semitism – in the true sense of the word.
Zionism prejudices, discriminates against, and oppresses Semites – both Arabs and Jews. Those
who practice true forms of Judaism view all human beings as equals. Their prime aspiration is to be
altruistic through a vocation of their passion, and strive to make the world a better place – regardless
of their habitation. The fundamental principles of Zionism oppose and undermine these tenets.
Source: The Law of Return and the Zionist Campaign to Subvert Science | – IMEMC News
The Reality it’s also being sold in the International discourse in the English speaking world Fox, NYT,
Tectonic shifts in Israeli broadcasting have played a key role in shaping the country’s nationalist and militaristic discourse, with Oct. 7 marking their apex.
These shifts are not a deviation from the norm. They are the apex of historical transformations that have fundamentally changed Israeli media and TV news, combined with outlets’ ad-hoc decision to display and prove their patriotism. Unfortunately, if coverage of the Gaza war is any indication, these trends are likely to continue, aggravating the ever-propelled cycle that pushes the Israeli media and the Israeli public to be more right-wing, conformist, militaristic, and nationalistic.
Source: Journalism out, hasbara in: How Israeli TV news joined the Gaza war effort
There’s division in the house The Jewish Council rejects Sky News and Peter Dutton’s political abuse of Palestinian asylum seekers. However, one might consider their acceptance is what Israel wants the world to take on as Palestinians in Palestine will by birthrate coupled with migration of Israelis Jews will soon be the minority population in the region, and their Apartheid no longer denied
The Jewish Council rejects the assertion that Australia accepting Palestinians fleeing unprecedented violence is in any way a threat to the safety of Jewish people. Many Jewish people have a deep understanding of fleeing persecution and many Jews have deep and meaningful relationships with Palestinians, including those from Gaza.
Israel propaganda tells us 200 trucks a day is a feast. Previously there were 500 trucks and Gaza’s farmers where fully operational. There is no farming and only 57 trucks were getting through. The Goebellian voices of Israel were saying It’s not our fault the “aid agencies are all Hamas”
“How many days, hours, seconds, do we need to wait to provide those people with the services and aid they need? Do we need to lose all the people in north Gaza? What are we waiting for? We need to convince the world to care about this issue,” he said.
Has the ABC returned to holding governments to account? The LNP wanted to bury them for it. Can the ALP afford to let them do their job and ask the hard questions or have they become supporters of private not public broadcasting?
Through its deceptive ‘fact-checking’ the ABC has continued to spread Coalition disinformation, though help may be on the way, Alan Austin reports.
Source: The ABC continues to falsely trash Labor’s economic credentials
Dutton’s Favorite Department Head Ever He Took Him With Him To Home Affairs
The not-so-distinguished service of former Secretary of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo ended in a blaze of ignominy, and there may be more coming. Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling with the story.
Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.
Last November, at the time the Coalition were furiously bashing ‘Airbus Albo’ for his penchant for overseas travel, Peter Dutton paid a low-key visit to India. Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling take a look at the Opposition Leader’s trip, which included a private dinner with an Indian billionaire with coal interests in Australia.
Source: Peter Dutton’s India escape and the secret meetings with the colourful coal baron – Michael West
Tens of thousands have been killed, including thousands of children. Many more are starving. American taxpayers’ money is partly responsible. Where is the moral clarity? Where is the moral authority? Why aren’t we doing everything possible to stop the deaths?
Source: Children in Gaza: Why Aren’t We Stopping the Deaths? | The Smirking Chimp
An invasion of Rafah would be the most dangerous stage of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians yet, causing death on a scale unseen even in these four months of sheer brutality.
Source: Rafah May Prove the Most Dire Moment in Israel’s War on Gaza
One has to ask had any Indigenous Australian of note had been found under the same circumstance would they have been treated as kindly?
By Bert Hetebry How sad to see the image of Barnaby Joyce on the pavement, cursing at himself as he talks to his wife on the phone. Dear Barnaby is not the first politician to find himself in an embarrassing situation after having enjoyed one or two too many drinks, in fact the list is…
Source: Barnaby, just another inebriated pollie – » The Australian Independent Media Network
In the meantime, Lazzarini has been scrambling to fill the funding void, making visits to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait. The dying and starvation in Gaza continue with the prospect of even more horror as Israel’s armed forces prepare their offensive on Rafah. A fine thing, then, to see donor countries for UNRWA, some of whom continue funding Israel’s military efforts, to moralise about terrorists and the agency.
Source: Absence of Evidence: Israel’s Case Against UNRWA – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Gaza’s destruction was a political act. Jacobin spoke to Palestinian refugees about the vibrant, beautiful Gaza they remember and how Israel brought their homeland to ruin.
In supporting Israel Australia is supporting People Smugglers there are enormous hypocrisy in that
With private brokers charging thousands of dollars to coordinate passage through Rafah Crossing, most Gazans are being priced out of safety.
Source: ‘We try every day to escape’: Palestinians struggle to afford Gaza exit fees
Israel has its ambitions fixed on Greater Palestine which includes more of Syria Lebanon and Jordan.
Israel launched missile attacks on Homs and surrounding areas in Syria in the early morning of Wednesday, killing scores of civilians and destroying significant civilian infrastructure hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Tel Aviv.
Source: Israel Kills Civilians in Syria; Rejects Gaza Peace Deal
Let TF ask what is it that has enabled Gazans and the Houthis to make the world turn on a time; what is it that is exposing Israel’s narrative of victimhood for the farce that it is; and why have peoples across the world been mounting daily protests against Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians.
Let him also ask why the United States is so openly, brazenly funding and arming the perpetrator of a genocidal war when it should be working very hard to play down its history of war-mongering against the Global South. Can an America that bombs compete with a China that builds?
What is this ‘dangerous moment?’
Is it the discovery by CIA of a Chinese plan to lay siege to Taiwan, Russian forces advancing on the capital of Ukraine, or thousands of Iranian attack boats blockading the Straits of Hormuz? It’s none of these.
Instead, this ‘dangerous moment’ is the result of actions emanating from a tiny sliver of land no larger than the smaller cities in the United States, whose impoverished population of 2.3 million Palestinians has lived in an open-air prison since 2007, and regularly subjected to carpet bombing by Israel, America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East. It is Gaza that has Thomas Friedman (TF) running scared.
What is it about the human spirit (note to self: Palestinians are human, not ‘human animals’) that compels a weak, ethnically cleansed, terrorized people to resist the might and power of the world’s most ‘civilized’ and powerful nation?
Yes, TF admits obliquely that it is an act of resistance by Gazans that now disturbs the USA, Israel and their Western accomplices.
Until the morning of October 7, 2023, the USA, Israel, and their Arab protectorates were blithely convinced that the ‘juggernaut’ of the so-called Abraham Accords would bury the Palestinians forever.
Yet, after nearly four months of the most destructive bombing in recent history, the esteemed NYT columnist is forced to acknowledge that Gaza “is forcing a fundamental rethinking about the Middle East within the Biden administration.” Is the human spirit still capable of such miracles?
Source: The Confessions of Thomas Friedman – CounterPunch.org
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Even the dead are not spared by the war raging in the Gaza Strip, with bodies dug up by Israeli soldiers and hurried burials taking place in hospitals and even a school.
In Gaza City’s Tuffah district, shrouded corpses of Palestinians removed from their graves lay atop muddied earth.
On Tuesday morning, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, told Donald Trump to get lost.
Bottom line: Not on our watch, the court declared.
Source: Here Are the Best Lines in the Court Decision Blasting Trump’s Immunity Claim – Mother Jones
News Corp’s coverage of Labor’s altered Stage 3 tax cuts has unsurprisingly highlighted – yet again – its existence as a propaganda machine rather than news outlet, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.
Source: News Corp’s Stage 3 tax cut coverage a deceitful political campaign
The dangers faced by Gaza’s visual journalists has been amplified by Israeli efforts to legitimise targeting them, analysts say. In November, the Israeli government alleged that several freelance photographers in Gaza who worked for major international media organisations had participated in the October 7 attacks by Hamas on southern Israel, in which nearly 1,139 people were killed and 240 taken captive. The media organisations rejected the allegations.
Source: Shooting war: Gaza’s visual storytellers under ‘blatant’ attack | Israel War on Gaza | Al Jazeera
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“Given the long-standing precarious nature of UNRWA’s finances… and in light of its essential role in providing vital services to Palestine refugees and some 1.8 million displaced persons in Gaza, cutting its funding at such a moment heightens the threat to life against Palestinians already at risk of genocide.”
RAMALLAH, Thursday, January 2, 2024 (WAFA) – A statement issued by around 28 organizations expressed deep concern and outrage that some of the largest donor …
Abbott resembled a warrior of yesteryear, a repository of anachronisms, the latter exemplified by his daft decision to give the late Prince Philip a knighthood. If there was ever talk about the superiority of Western civilisation, he would be there to boast about it. Increasingly, even proudly tone deaf to the electorate, he lost his seat in the 2019 election to the independent Zali Steggall. In doing so, he unintentionally laid the seeds for disruptive change that would, in May 2022, see the greatest number of independents ever returned to Canberra.
These are the systemic resources the IDF have that Hamas doesn’t. BDS is the protest movement that can help rebalance that.
Renowned reggae artist, Ziggy Marley, the headline artist at WOMADelaide 2024 (World Music Adelaide), is an outspoken supporter of Israel even during its current genocidal operation in Gaza. In 2018, fans worldwide were shocked by his attendance at a star studded benefit for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). This event raised $60 million for a military that had already received more than $120 billion dollars from the US government since the end of World War II. WOMAD’s values are in stark contrast to the actions of their headline performer.
They are being killed arrested and targeted in any IDF’s radius of operation.
Doctors, Teachers, Journalists, Academics are being disciplined, hauled before disciplinary bodies and even sacked for criticising the slaughter in Gaza and, most heinous sin of all, for mentioning genocide. Arrayed against those professionals is a lobby promoting the notion that criticism of Israeli government policies is anti-Semitic, hence the need to censor commentary about the massacres in Gaza.
Source: Toxic effects of censorship on Gaza – Pearls and Irritations
Australia has Xmas Island, Manus, Nauru, and even an arrangement with Cambodia, the UK has Rwanda, and the US Guantanamo. All perfectly ready for use by Israel, free of course, as a donation it would seem as a solution to their “Palestinian Problem”. They are looking for volunteer nations in which to relocate Gaza….free of course. Currently, Egypt’s Sinai is their preference.
“The colonial meeting in Jerusalem poses a blatant challenge to the International Court of Justice decision, accompanied by public incitement to forcibly displace Palestinians,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said. Olivia Rosane Jan 29, 2024 15
Source: Israel Ministers Call for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza at Settler Conference
Will Israeli Zionists raise the Australian flag next to theirs in Palestine? What relevance has the ICJ decision in 2024 had for the teaching of Australia’s Colonial history, Our Frontier Wars,were aimed at Killing for the Country and they took place in our not-so-distant inglorious past?
Has Morrison left anything behind that recommends he be seen in a positive light? NZ Tourism (Sacked) Australia Tourism (Sacked) Seat of Cook Preselection ( Corrupt) Prime Minister ( Vying for worst in Australian History).
Scott Morrison deserves credit for his government’s handling of the economics of the COVID pandemic. But aside from that, he treated politics purely as a game.
Source: As Morrison quits parliament, his ‘legacy’ has little to recommend it
Kristallnacht is coming to America. They voted Hitler in and called it a Socialist Democracy.
Trump clearly said Mein Kamph was a favorite book he read with great attention.
That Donald Trump still has not been held accountable for encouraging the attack on the U.S. Capitol, or for provoking his followers with his blatant lie that the 2020 election was stolen, continues to galvanize an army of potentially violent Americans.
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