Throughout the past few months, The Australian has shown it’s incapable of balanced perspectives when it comes to Israel and the genocide of the Palestinians.
Quite simply Ros the so called intelligent are morons incapable of understanding when they are being hoodwinked. That comes from failure of research and dependence on a sole source and not diverse.
What I cannot understand is how otherwise intelligent people can ignore the realities of this conflict.
Israel occupies Palestine, all of it, not the other way around.
Israel is the military colonial ruler of Palestine and denies them civil and human rights while inflicting sadistic and bestial savagery on them, men, women and children alike and it has done so for nearly 80 years.
If Israel were not occupying Palestine and subjecting its people to some of the most evil cruelty in history there would be no Palestinian Resistance, no Hamas, no October 7, no hostages.
How is it possible to ignore or deny the reality of life for Palestinians crushed under the military boot of their occupiers? If Israeli occupation and colonial rule had not treated the Palestinians as they have done and continue to do, and October 7 had happened, then by any principle of sanity those condemning the Palestinians would be justified.
But that is not the case so there is no justification for any support of colonial genocidal ethnic cleansing. NONE.
The Australians that murdered the aboriginals are all dead now. It was done in the 1800s up to 1940. My guess is the ties the Australian politicians have to US politicians and the globalists is the main reason why they are not speaking up against the Israeli genocide.
Well said. Murdoch's rags are a blight on our societies. The Sun was influential in the UK during the 80s, dumbing us down and dividing the working class when it faced a brutal government and the loss of millions of jobs, doing much damage. It's difficult to know whether Murdoch believes the bullshit or is one of the world's most cynical operators - he's certainly not stupid. The UK’s Private Eye called him the Dirty Digger.
Thank you for an excellent article. I don’t believe that either the radical Zionists or the war profiteers are trying to crush Hamas; that’s a false pretext for the accelerating destruction they really want. What The Australian wants, I don’t know. I’m guessing they are just obeying orders from …?
You make some excellent points, but it is not correct to say Hamas is the democratically elected government of Gaza.
Firstly Gaza is a prison, a concentration camp which does not have elections or governments.
Secondly, in 2006 Hamas won the Legislative elections in all of Occupied Palestine with an overall majority vote. The Israeli colonial rulers, the real Government, overturned that election so Hamas was elected to nothing.
The Israeli processes and issues ID cards to every single Palestinian including those in Gaza and is therefore the Government of all of Occupied Palestine.
Thank you Ros but I need to correct you. Hamas is a democratically elected government and it has been so since 2005 and secondly, regardless of it being a prison camp it still does have elections.
From what I can find Hamas is a governing body but there have been no elections in Gaza. How could there be when it is a concentration camp set up by Israel?
One could argue Hamas has been a governing and organising body but it is not an elected government. The same applies to the PA. Israel governs and rules all of Occupied Palestine, or at least retains that power. Israel issues the ID cards and the PA distributes them.
My background is journalism when it was facts-based. I simply want the evidence for those elections. From what I have found there were some local elections in what is called the West Bank in 2021 but none in Gaza.
These were local elections and not Legislative or Presidential.
I notice that the Australian literary platform Kill My Darlings also came out with a strong pro Palestine call to writers last November. KMD also challenged Aus media. I promptly subscribed but here in Aotearoa New Zealand and in Australia and elsewhere including sub-stack writers who stand against this antisemitism - the antisemitism against Palestinians - risk ostracism. You write using the pen as a sword that strikes the heart, George. A true hero.
Someone I meet just reminded me of what i have also seen, which is that hamas had achieved much more than any other government in Gaza before it.
Everything was working, from the schools, to the universities, to the fire department, to the post and social offices, to the security services, the hospitals to water filtration plans, to electricity, sanitation, public roads……
From the very start of this Genocidal operation, the focus of the US and of its allies, has been to declare hamas as a terrorist entity, because if they would have succeeded in doing so, they could have somehow legally kept reporters and foreigners eyes away from Gaza and the rest of Palestine and conducted a full scale terror operation, experimenting of the population of Gaza E more weapons than the ones which they have now certified as “combat ready”, and ready for the bloody market.
Even if some countries have labeled hamas as a terrorist entity, most of them have straight out refused to do so.
The people of Gaza must have their voice heard in the UN, and if they choose Hamas, then one of its representatives must be made able to talk at the UN so that a real agreement for peace can be finally achieved..
The comment that Israel will collapse within a year is interesting; but the other comments all point at Netanyahu as the scapegoat for actions that have been supported by most of the Israeli and allied governments, and the Israeli people. I guess they're putting out that narrative as a failsafe in case IIsrael is actually held accountable someday.
Quite simply Ros the so called intelligent are morons incapable of understanding when they are being hoodwinked. That comes from failure of research and dependence on a sole source and not diverse.
Thank you Kathleen.
What I cannot understand is how otherwise intelligent people can ignore the realities of this conflict.
Israel occupies Palestine, all of it, not the other way around.
Israel is the military colonial ruler of Palestine and denies them civil and human rights while inflicting sadistic and bestial savagery on them, men, women and children alike and it has done so for nearly 80 years.
If Israel were not occupying Palestine and subjecting its people to some of the most evil cruelty in history there would be no Palestinian Resistance, no Hamas, no October 7, no hostages.
How is it possible to ignore or deny the reality of life for Palestinians crushed under the military boot of their occupiers? If Israeli occupation and colonial rule had not treated the Palestinians as they have done and continue to do, and October 7 had happened, then by any principle of sanity those condemning the Palestinians would be justified.
But that is not the case so there is no justification for any support of colonial genocidal ethnic cleansing. NONE.
Well written Thanks I'll restack & share on X
"The Australian’s editorial is a demonstration of ignorance."
Ignorance, my tail. They know exactly what they are doing.
well said
From Rupert himself
The Australians committed a good bit of genocide on their own against the Abrigonise not too long agoe.
Maybe that's why the support the Israeli version 🤔
The Australians that murdered the aboriginals are all dead now. It was done in the 1800s up to 1940. My guess is the ties the Australian politicians have to US politicians and the globalists is the main reason why they are not speaking up against the Israeli genocide.
Well said. Murdoch's rags are a blight on our societies. The Sun was influential in the UK during the 80s, dumbing us down and dividing the working class when it faced a brutal government and the loss of millions of jobs, doing much damage. It's difficult to know whether Murdoch believes the bullshit or is one of the world's most cynical operators - he's certainly not stupid. The UK’s Private Eye called him the Dirty Digger.
Thank you for an excellent article. I don’t believe that either the radical Zionists or the war profiteers are trying to crush Hamas; that’s a false pretext for the accelerating destruction they really want. What The Australian wants, I don’t know. I’m guessing they are just obeying orders from …?
You make some excellent points, but it is not correct to say Hamas is the democratically elected government of Gaza.
Firstly Gaza is a prison, a concentration camp which does not have elections or governments.
Secondly, in 2006 Hamas won the Legislative elections in all of Occupied Palestine with an overall majority vote. The Israeli colonial rulers, the real Government, overturned that election so Hamas was elected to nothing.
The Israeli processes and issues ID cards to every single Palestinian including those in Gaza and is therefore the Government of all of Occupied Palestine.
Thank you Ros but I need to correct you. Hamas is a democratically elected government and it has been so since 2005 and secondly, regardless of it being a prison camp it still does have elections.
From what I can find Hamas is a governing body but there have been no elections in Gaza. How could there be when it is a concentration camp set up by Israel?
One could argue Hamas has been a governing and organising body but it is not an elected government. The same applies to the PA. Israel governs and rules all of Occupied Palestine, or at least retains that power. Israel issues the ID cards and the PA distributes them.
I can assure you Ros there have been elections.
My background is journalism when it was facts-based. I simply want the evidence for those elections. From what I have found there were some local elections in what is called the West Bank in 2021 but none in Gaza.
These were local elections and not Legislative or Presidential.
https://ecfr.eu/special/mapping_palestinian_politics/municipal-elections-2021/#:~:text=The%20first%20round%20of%20voting%20took%20place%20on%2011%20December
I prefer to come from facts and would really appreciate knowing when and how elections were held in Gaza. Many thanks.
So when were elections held in Gaza and which international group monitored them?
Here’s just one:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/29/israel
Thanks but that is 2005. I do not believe, or have not seen, proof of elections since that time.
I notice that the Australian literary platform Kill My Darlings also came out with a strong pro Palestine call to writers last November. KMD also challenged Aus media. I promptly subscribed but here in Aotearoa New Zealand and in Australia and elsewhere including sub-stack writers who stand against this antisemitism - the antisemitism against Palestinians - risk ostracism. You write using the pen as a sword that strikes the heart, George. A true hero.
Someone I meet just reminded me of what i have also seen, which is that hamas had achieved much more than any other government in Gaza before it.
Everything was working, from the schools, to the universities, to the fire department, to the post and social offices, to the security services, the hospitals to water filtration plans, to electricity, sanitation, public roads……
From the very start of this Genocidal operation, the focus of the US and of its allies, has been to declare hamas as a terrorist entity, because if they would have succeeded in doing so, they could have somehow legally kept reporters and foreigners eyes away from Gaza and the rest of Palestine and conducted a full scale terror operation, experimenting of the population of Gaza E more weapons than the ones which they have now certified as “combat ready”, and ready for the bloody market.
Even if some countries have labeled hamas as a terrorist entity, most of them have straight out refused to do so.
The people of Gaza must have their voice heard in the UN, and if they choose Hamas, then one of its representatives must be made able to talk at the UN so that a real agreement for peace can be finally achieved..
Thank you for sharing George.
The comment that Israel will collapse within a year is interesting; but the other comments all point at Netanyahu as the scapegoat for actions that have been supported by most of the Israeli and allied governments, and the Israeli people. I guess they're putting out that narrative as a failsafe in case IIsrael is actually held accountable someday.