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The two major Australian political parties, whilst perhaps different in degree, essentially support the same ex-colonialist, elitist, capitalist, sycophantic following of the USA.
Sadly, the 4th estate or at least its major players, also subscribe to the false narrative about Israel 'having a right to self defense', when our very own police and judicial systems have rules against the use of excessive force.
The reality is that Israel has, on more than one occasion, killed more Palestinians at one time than were killed on 7 October 2023.
The reality is that Hamas is a legitimately elected government.
The reality is that a people living under occupation have the right to attempt to free themselves of it - that right being granted under international law.
The reality is that people have been conditioned to note the killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and so also conditioned to a sympathy for Jews which Zionists have used to their advantage. Strangely, the western public hasn't been conditioned to the loss of 20 million people by the Soviet Union, at least 15 million Chinese, about 6 million Polish and other significant losses to the people of other nations.
Any curious and objective person must wonder why that is the case.
The reality is that conditioning affects us all and most in the west have been conditioned to see Israel as representative of Jews and worthy of sympathy because of the treatment of Jews in WWII. However the average person in the west knows little to nothing of the perfidious creation of the State of Israel, the dispossession and brutality forced upon the Palestinians who had lived their for generations, let alone the impunity with which Israel has persecuted and killed Palestinians for at least 7 decades, as well as effectively holding the whole Palestinian people hostage for the same period of time.
It shame me and all caring and freedom loving people who are aware, that the Australian government and its opposition are basically puppets of the USA and both tell a false story to the Australian people about Israel which, along with similar stories from other western governments, has allowed Israel to persecute Palestinians with impunity.
The result is the arrogance and grandstanding of the criminal, Netanyahu and the excesses of the IDF, including many of its members who have ignored the rules of war and mistreated, even tortured and humiliated Palestinian prisoners and laughed together about it.
Israel had been a fundamentally Zionist state from the beginning and the protesters against Israels genocide, are legitimate and caring people who recognise and object to our nation supporting an Israel whose government and military act and commit crimes in precisely the way as did the Nazis on the Jews.
There is no justification whatsoever to dress down the Iranian ambassador. If the Australian government actually worked for the Australian people and resisted actual terrorist groups such as the Zionist lobbyists and organisations which operate as representatives of Jews, then it would have condemned Israel as the pariah state and terrorist organisation that its government is and would not, instead, be harassing citizens protesting against such aggression and persecution.
Our government's cowardice makes me ashamed to be Australian.
Thank you for your supportive comment. I guess it's just who I am because I also feel ashamed that we even had to have a referendum to give the original people of this continent a voice, let alone that so many rejected the opportunity.
The two major parties in the USA have almost identical foreign policies. The differences are so slight as to be insignificant. Of course there are significant ways in which they diverge ideologically on other very important issues.
Ironically, Harris will lose to Trump if she cannot take Michigan -- a state she would probably capture easily, were it not for the fact that she has alienated the roughly 300,000 or so people who identify as either Arab-American or Muslim-American. One must again ask the obvious question. With Trump in bed with Netanyahu, and Jared Kushner so anxious to "develop" ocean-front real estate, is it possible that the genocide and military horrors were instigated by a cynical Trump (or one of his campaign associates) in order to alienate what was then a Biden, now Harris constituency? I have no smoking gun, but nothing would surprise me anymore...
Frankly, Lenny, I think nothing would surprise any of us any more.
Just a few moments ago I saw a tv news video of the Australian Labor Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, for whom many of us had respect and hope when his party overturned a decade of right wing rule. We were conned. What I just saw and heard him say was:
"We unequivocally condemn Hamas’ actions on that day. Innocent lives taken at a music festival. Women, men and children killed in their homes. Brutality that was inflicted with cold calculation. Today, we also think of the hostages whose lives remain suspended in the fear and isolation of captivity. For their loved ones, this past year must have felt like an eternity - the agony of waiting and not knowing, or of having the terrible truth confirmed. Since the atrocities of October 7, Jewish Australians have felt the cold shadows of antisemitism reaching into the present day."
This hypocrisy matches that of Netanyah.
Why doesn't Australia's Prime Minister "unequivocally condemn Israel’s actions since 8 October 2023 to the present day - 12 months. There killing of at least 40,000 Palestinians and injuring even maiming 100,000+ Palestinans in the same period and the reality of the whole population of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories being held hostage for around 7 decades.? -THIS IS HYPOCRISY WRIT LARGE.
Why does the media constantly talk of 1200 Israelis killed on 7 October 2023 when Israel's own figures have longstated 1139? Why does our media report 340 hostages when Israeli figures now indicate 241?
Why does the media not condemn the breach of 67 United Nations resolutions in regard to Israel and its continual breaches of humanitarian law and the Laws of war, as well as the Genocide Convention - all of which it treats with disdain?
Why does the United States, supposed 'leader of the free world and bastion of democracy' continue to supply funding and weapons used by Israel to kill innocent civilians and extend its incursions into other nations well beyond Gaza?
Why has not every member of the United Nations not called out this genocide and the hypocrisy of Netanyahu and his cohort?
Why did American not arrest Netanyahu during his visit to the US in line with the edicts of the International Criminal Court and the Intenational Court of Justice?
Why? - Because the US has a powerful military and a veto at the United Nations and benefits enormously from the wealth of the Jewish and Zionist donors.
For Netanyah this war is about maintaining his power and avoiding criminal prosecution.
For the US this war is about retaining billions of dollars of support, both directly and indirectly from its wealthy zionist and Jewish supporters.
President Macron is right to condemn this perfidy and Netanyahu, as usual, has leashed a tirade of abuse at him that has no basis whatsoever as legitimate criticism but only the lashing out of a selfish, uncompassionate Bully with a dead heart.
Someone has to stop Netanyahu and Israel breching international law and human rights on a daily basis. It has now killed or maimed over 21,000 Palestiniand / Lebanese children - are they to blame for any of this? No, they are not but they are now sentenced to live with missed out schooling, lost parents, orphans, many with lost limbs - amputees - and with what will the life-long trauma of the saverage & barbaric assault on their people and their relatives and friends - all without them having taken any part in it and most almost certainly with no comprehension as to why they have been caused to suffer in this way.
People in the occupied territories have no reasonable choice. There is nowhere for them to flee. The nations that have the strength and technology and force and funds to help them have been notably absent or silent, save for blatant hypocritical nonsense.
Palestinians are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
If they follow the illegal instructions of the Israeli's to move to 'safe zones', (some having done so many times), they then find that it is an illusion for those 'safe zones' are not - they are bombed and invaded just as readily as anywhere else. If they stay where they are and where they have a right to be, they are bombed anyway.
Netanyahu is a criminal in the manner of the criminals of WWII and since.
Israel is a paria state and ought to suffer the consequences of that perfidy.
Israel is THE terrorist organisation that ought to be condemned.
How long must it be before World forces put a stop to this insanity?
I share your concerns, Roger. Alas, I am unable to answer ANY of your questions, save for the ones to which you provided the obvious answers. The Holocaust does not justify what Bibi and his IDF are doing, and I resent the stifling of all criticism with terms like "anti-Semitism" and "terrorism" (or "terrorist-sympathizer"). Somehow (despite the fact that my great-grandparents were slaughtered by the Nazis), I cannot believe that the children with maimed limbs and mutilated faces are Hamas or Hezbollah. I am, however able to believe that the people who suffered so much at the hands of the Nazis have cheerfully adopted the same tactics (and worse) -- with the clear approval of the USA, UK, Australia, and other "free" states. Shameful!
To add on to your comments Roger. October 7th was a false flag operation. Israeli survivors of Oct 7th have all said the killing was done by the IDF firing on its own people. It was a setup and a massacre committed by the Israelis for an excuse to commit genocide. This information is out there, but the mainstream media refuses to report it!
One more thing. It’s ridiculous to blame this genocide on Trump. Biden is a lifelong Zionist, who’s been obsessed with Israel his whole political career. Biden is a warmonger and a puppet of the oligarchy, and Harris is too. Stop blaming other people for the crimes the democrats have committed!
She will loose because people that have any sense of morality aren’t voting for her, because she has none. If the democrats had even the slightest notion of morality, she would receive many more votes and it wouldn’t be close. It’s not just Muslims, that won’t vote for her.
Here is the US they probably wouldn't have allowed a march of 40,000 to be peaceful. They can send in agents provocateur, or they can just have the police attack the demonstrators, which the media will refer to as "the demonstration turned violent..."
I hope people are noticing that the mayhem they see every day on their screens is 100% Israel's, and understand that Iran's limited actions were retaliation, and not "unprovoked", another absurd assertion by the MSM who, if people are paying attention, are looking increasingly dishonest by now. Do they just carry on digging? How many viewers have they lost?
Modern democracy doesn't require politicians to represent the Public or morality. Yet people vote for one of two parties again and again and again, all over the Western world.
Demo-cracy in Ancient Greece was the rule of the demos, which did not include those considered second class citizens (like women), and the slaves. The rule of all the people is called lao-cracy, with laos being everyone regardless. In that sense the system we have is indeed a democracy, but we're the slaves. The only difference is that modern day slaves are given a token paper to put in a box every so many years to keep them placated, while the decisions are made by the demos anyway.
I'm Greek, I feel I need to clarify this point so that people finally understand that we do have democracy, but ironically, the more this system consolidates power, the more democratic it becomes, as per original definition
The more it consolidates power...reminds me of an article about how the US does not consider a nation to be Democratic unless all state owned assets have been privatized.
The lies they adhere to - religiously, a compulsory script they must recite knowing very well, each sentence they utter is an abuse of trust and an overwhelming distortion of reality - and yet they treat the knowing as though we are contemptuous fools, and the unknowing and brainwashed naive as plasticine easily moulded. There’s a reason why revolutions happen. At some point, one will eventuate.
<< It [i.e., the peaceful rally] exposed the hollow nature of the arguments made by those who seek to equate support for Palestine with terrorism or anti-Semitism. >>
Careful, George. They'll bring in the paid provacateurs, start a riot, and blame it on terrorist-sympathizers! They have done that in the USA and elsewhere over the past decades.
Yes, you are so very right.
The two major Australian political parties, whilst perhaps different in degree, essentially support the same ex-colonialist, elitist, capitalist, sycophantic following of the USA.
Sadly, the 4th estate or at least its major players, also subscribe to the false narrative about Israel 'having a right to self defense', when our very own police and judicial systems have rules against the use of excessive force.
The reality is that Israel has, on more than one occasion, killed more Palestinians at one time than were killed on 7 October 2023.
The reality is that Hamas is a legitimately elected government.
The reality is that a people living under occupation have the right to attempt to free themselves of it - that right being granted under international law.
The reality is that people have been conditioned to note the killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and so also conditioned to a sympathy for Jews which Zionists have used to their advantage. Strangely, the western public hasn't been conditioned to the loss of 20 million people by the Soviet Union, at least 15 million Chinese, about 6 million Polish and other significant losses to the people of other nations.
Any curious and objective person must wonder why that is the case.
The reality is that conditioning affects us all and most in the west have been conditioned to see Israel as representative of Jews and worthy of sympathy because of the treatment of Jews in WWII. However the average person in the west knows little to nothing of the perfidious creation of the State of Israel, the dispossession and brutality forced upon the Palestinians who had lived their for generations, let alone the impunity with which Israel has persecuted and killed Palestinians for at least 7 decades, as well as effectively holding the whole Palestinian people hostage for the same period of time.
It shame me and all caring and freedom loving people who are aware, that the Australian government and its opposition are basically puppets of the USA and both tell a false story to the Australian people about Israel which, along with similar stories from other western governments, has allowed Israel to persecute Palestinians with impunity.
The result is the arrogance and grandstanding of the criminal, Netanyahu and the excesses of the IDF, including many of its members who have ignored the rules of war and mistreated, even tortured and humiliated Palestinian prisoners and laughed together about it.
Israel had been a fundamentally Zionist state from the beginning and the protesters against Israels genocide, are legitimate and caring people who recognise and object to our nation supporting an Israel whose government and military act and commit crimes in precisely the way as did the Nazis on the Jews.
There is no justification whatsoever to dress down the Iranian ambassador. If the Australian government actually worked for the Australian people and resisted actual terrorist groups such as the Zionist lobbyists and organisations which operate as representatives of Jews, then it would have condemned Israel as the pariah state and terrorist organisation that its government is and would not, instead, be harassing citizens protesting against such aggression and persecution.
Our government's cowardice makes me ashamed to be Australian.
Hear hear !
No need to be ashamed of a government that doesn't represent your views.
Australia is a puppet state.
Thank you for your supportive comment. I guess it's just who I am because I also feel ashamed that we even had to have a referendum to give the original people of this continent a voice, let alone that so many rejected the opportunity.
Take care. Stay safe. ☮️
All good, we're not the ones who should be ashamed but the politici who first of all pledged an oath and then dishonored it.
Agreed.
Canada is also a puppet state. Unfortunately we share the longest unpatrolled border in the world with the puppet master.
From my perspective we have more to fear from corporate influence over government policies than from unpatrolled borders.
The two major parties in the USA have almost identical foreign policies. The differences are so slight as to be insignificant. Of course there are significant ways in which they diverge ideologically on other very important issues.
Ironically, Harris will lose to Trump if she cannot take Michigan -- a state she would probably capture easily, were it not for the fact that she has alienated the roughly 300,000 or so people who identify as either Arab-American or Muslim-American. One must again ask the obvious question. With Trump in bed with Netanyahu, and Jared Kushner so anxious to "develop" ocean-front real estate, is it possible that the genocide and military horrors were instigated by a cynical Trump (or one of his campaign associates) in order to alienate what was then a Biden, now Harris constituency? I have no smoking gun, but nothing would surprise me anymore...
Frankly, Lenny, I think nothing would surprise any of us any more.
Just a few moments ago I saw a tv news video of the Australian Labor Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, for whom many of us had respect and hope when his party overturned a decade of right wing rule. We were conned. What I just saw and heard him say was:
"We unequivocally condemn Hamas’ actions on that day. Innocent lives taken at a music festival. Women, men and children killed in their homes. Brutality that was inflicted with cold calculation. Today, we also think of the hostages whose lives remain suspended in the fear and isolation of captivity. For their loved ones, this past year must have felt like an eternity - the agony of waiting and not knowing, or of having the terrible truth confirmed. Since the atrocities of October 7, Jewish Australians have felt the cold shadows of antisemitism reaching into the present day."
This hypocrisy matches that of Netanyah.
Why doesn't Australia's Prime Minister "unequivocally condemn Israel’s actions since 8 October 2023 to the present day - 12 months. There killing of at least 40,000 Palestinians and injuring even maiming 100,000+ Palestinans in the same period and the reality of the whole population of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories being held hostage for around 7 decades.? -THIS IS HYPOCRISY WRIT LARGE.
Why does the media constantly talk of 1200 Israelis killed on 7 October 2023 when Israel's own figures have longstated 1139? Why does our media report 340 hostages when Israeli figures now indicate 241?
Why does the media not condemn the breach of 67 United Nations resolutions in regard to Israel and its continual breaches of humanitarian law and the Laws of war, as well as the Genocide Convention - all of which it treats with disdain?
Why does the United States, supposed 'leader of the free world and bastion of democracy' continue to supply funding and weapons used by Israel to kill innocent civilians and extend its incursions into other nations well beyond Gaza?
Why has not every member of the United Nations not called out this genocide and the hypocrisy of Netanyahu and his cohort?
Why did American not arrest Netanyahu during his visit to the US in line with the edicts of the International Criminal Court and the Intenational Court of Justice?
Why? - Because the US has a powerful military and a veto at the United Nations and benefits enormously from the wealth of the Jewish and Zionist donors.
For Netanyah this war is about maintaining his power and avoiding criminal prosecution.
For the US this war is about retaining billions of dollars of support, both directly and indirectly from its wealthy zionist and Jewish supporters.
President Macron is right to condemn this perfidy and Netanyahu, as usual, has leashed a tirade of abuse at him that has no basis whatsoever as legitimate criticism but only the lashing out of a selfish, uncompassionate Bully with a dead heart.
Someone has to stop Netanyahu and Israel breching international law and human rights on a daily basis. It has now killed or maimed over 21,000 Palestiniand / Lebanese children - are they to blame for any of this? No, they are not but they are now sentenced to live with missed out schooling, lost parents, orphans, many with lost limbs - amputees - and with what will the life-long trauma of the saverage & barbaric assault on their people and their relatives and friends - all without them having taken any part in it and most almost certainly with no comprehension as to why they have been caused to suffer in this way.
People in the occupied territories have no reasonable choice. There is nowhere for them to flee. The nations that have the strength and technology and force and funds to help them have been notably absent or silent, save for blatant hypocritical nonsense.
Palestinians are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
If they follow the illegal instructions of the Israeli's to move to 'safe zones', (some having done so many times), they then find that it is an illusion for those 'safe zones' are not - they are bombed and invaded just as readily as anywhere else. If they stay where they are and where they have a right to be, they are bombed anyway.
Netanyahu is a criminal in the manner of the criminals of WWII and since.
Israel is a paria state and ought to suffer the consequences of that perfidy.
Israel is THE terrorist organisation that ought to be condemned.
How long must it be before World forces put a stop to this insanity?
I share your concerns, Roger. Alas, I am unable to answer ANY of your questions, save for the ones to which you provided the obvious answers. The Holocaust does not justify what Bibi and his IDF are doing, and I resent the stifling of all criticism with terms like "anti-Semitism" and "terrorism" (or "terrorist-sympathizer"). Somehow (despite the fact that my great-grandparents were slaughtered by the Nazis), I cannot believe that the children with maimed limbs and mutilated faces are Hamas or Hezbollah. I am, however able to believe that the people who suffered so much at the hands of the Nazis have cheerfully adopted the same tactics (and worse) -- with the clear approval of the USA, UK, Australia, and other "free" states. Shameful!
To add on to your comments Roger. October 7th was a false flag operation. Israeli survivors of Oct 7th have all said the killing was done by the IDF firing on its own people. It was a setup and a massacre committed by the Israelis for an excuse to commit genocide. This information is out there, but the mainstream media refuses to report it!
One more thing. It’s ridiculous to blame this genocide on Trump. Biden is a lifelong Zionist, who’s been obsessed with Israel his whole political career. Biden is a warmonger and a puppet of the oligarchy, and Harris is too. Stop blaming other people for the crimes the democrats have committed!
She will loose because people that have any sense of morality aren’t voting for her, because she has none. If the democrats had even the slightest notion of morality, she would receive many more votes and it wouldn’t be close. It’s not just Muslims, that won’t vote for her.
Here is the US they probably wouldn't have allowed a march of 40,000 to be peaceful. They can send in agents provocateur, or they can just have the police attack the demonstrators, which the media will refer to as "the demonstration turned violent..."
Precisely the point I made to @George Hazim above! Thank you for mentioning this.
Touché Roger I couldn’t agree more.
I hope people are noticing that the mayhem they see every day on their screens is 100% Israel's, and understand that Iran's limited actions were retaliation, and not "unprovoked", another absurd assertion by the MSM who, if people are paying attention, are looking increasingly dishonest by now. Do they just carry on digging? How many viewers have they lost?
Modern democracy doesn't require politicians to represent the Public or morality. Yet people vote for one of two parties again and again and again, all over the Western world.
Demo-cracy in Ancient Greece was the rule of the demos, which did not include those considered second class citizens (like women), and the slaves. The rule of all the people is called lao-cracy, with laos being everyone regardless. In that sense the system we have is indeed a democracy, but we're the slaves. The only difference is that modern day slaves are given a token paper to put in a box every so many years to keep them placated, while the decisions are made by the demos anyway.
Nailed it !
I'm Greek, I feel I need to clarify this point so that people finally understand that we do have democracy, but ironically, the more this system consolidates power, the more democratic it becomes, as per original definition
The more it consolidates power...reminds me of an article about how the US does not consider a nation to be Democratic unless all state owned assets have been privatized.
Privatised by western globalised monopolies. The ultimate consolidation of power
Great comment!
Thank you, I think language matters
The Language of Knowledge.
Another point. Arab nations for the most part do not attack civilians only strategic sites.
The latest Iranian strike I believe killed one person (a Palestinian).
The lies they adhere to - religiously, a compulsory script they must recite knowing very well, each sentence they utter is an abuse of trust and an overwhelming distortion of reality - and yet they treat the knowing as though we are contemptuous fools, and the unknowing and brainwashed naive as plasticine easily moulded. There’s a reason why revolutions happen. At some point, one will eventuate.
I'm sure the USA supports Israeli Jews because they mistakenly believe that Arab Muslims are more of a threat to Christian civilization.
<< It [i.e., the peaceful rally] exposed the hollow nature of the arguments made by those who seek to equate support for Palestine with terrorism or anti-Semitism. >>
Careful, George. They'll bring in the paid provacateurs, start a riot, and blame it on terrorist-sympathizers! They have done that in the USA and elsewhere over the past decades.