Tag: Morals

Israel

The Myth of Israel’s ‘Most Moral Army’ – CounterPunch.org

Palestinian victims, by contrast, remain nameless; and they tend to be presented as mere numbers rather than flesh and blood human beings whose lives also deserve to be grieved. This, too, helps to perpetuate the myth of the Israeli military as moral.

Ultimately, then, it is not only that those who deploy the weapons of the strong are considered more ethical because they kill innocent people from a distance, but also because the colonial legal discourse constructs the people they kill as “human animals”, “collateral damage”, or as a statistic.

So long as the dead are dehumanised in this way and, consequently, presented as unworthy of being grieved, the death drive will continue unabated. This, I fear, is a recipe for genocidal retribution.

As Israel ordered 1.1 million Palestinians – many of whom are the children and grandchildren of refugees – to leave their homes in northern Gaza ahead of

Source: The Myth of Israel’s ‘Most Moral Army’ – CounterPunch.org

LNP, LNP Corruption, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

‘Historic’ trade agreement with India signed after decade of negotiations – ABC News

India's trade minister holds up a signed document. In other screens, Tehan does the same and Morrison and Modi applaud

Ten years in the making of an agreement signed just weeks before an election smells of a scam. One needs to ask what Morrison actually sacrificed in order to gain this politically advantageous signing at such a fortuitous moment. The Indians are known for their bargaining skills and ability to take commercial advantage. They are one of the few countries currently refusing to criticize Putin and are not employing sanctions against Russia. Furthermore, they are happily buying their cheaper oil and so offering indirect and questionable support in their war against Ukraine. Morrison is rewarding India a nation for its questionable ethical and contrarian stance to ours and his associated  media propagandists are supporting him in this less than perfect moral stance. he’s indirectly siding with Russia. In fact he directly sided with Putin at the last Climate summit in Glasgow.

The Morrison government has hailed the agreement as a significant step in its efforts to diversify export markets and reduce Australia’s economic dependence on China.”This is an economic agreement that has strategic might to it,” Mr Tehan said.

Source: ‘Historic’ trade agreement with India signed after decade of negotiations – ABC News

migration

Forgetting the Good: Moral Contradictions in the Response to Mass Migration – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Despite public appeals to ideas of dignity or compassion, refugee policies manifest the absence of substantive visions of the good. In the absence of an orientation towards the good, evil takes hold.

 

Despite official appeals to ideas of dignity or compassion, refugee policies manifest the absence of any substantive vision of the good. In the absence of an orientation towards the good, evil takes hold.

Source: Forgetting the Good: Moral Contradictions in the Response to Mass Migration – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)