Israel's order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong
Israel's order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Israel has a right to defend itself, and judging its security decisions from a distance is "very difficult", as Israel's government vows to cut off food and water to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Israel has a right to defend itself, and judging its security decisions from a distance is "very difficult", as Israel's government vows to cut off food and water to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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I would argue that it's quite easy to judge, at any distance, the collective punishment of civilians through the withholding of the essentials of life.
We've a referendum this weekend largely on whether we're ready to confront uncomfortable and complex consequences of a history of colonial violence. What's more difficult is reconciling these sorts of statements from a government that says it is.
The Aboriginal tribes didn't slaughter civilians, or rape and murder aid workers, to be fair.
And the Palestinian population at large has done that have they? Maybe we should judge the so called "settlers" for stealing peoples homes and having picnics while watching Palestinian protestors shot by IDF snipers? Or shall we just pretend that Israel has been the perfect "neigbour"?
Imagine going to bat for Hamas, of all people.
They didn't, maybe you'd be able to read better if you took your head out of your arse?
They're whatabouting the fact that Hamas do, in fact, represent the views of most Palestinians. Comparing them to the Aboriginal tribes is a grave insult to the latter.
oh I'm sorry I can't support Palestine because they won't lie down and die
Imagine only supporting oppressed peoples when they don't fight their oppressors.
If your support is conditional you are not supporting.
A bunch of teenagers at a music festival are not "their oppressors".
There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break?
What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror--that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Mark Twain
A bunch of rich kids partying on land pissing distance from the walls erected to lock in 2 million Palestinians, which was stolen from those Palestinians grandparents, are most definitely the fucken oppressors here mate.
Especially when you throw in compulsory military service
Or, as the Bolshevik who bayoneted the Romanov children put it, “nits grow up to be lice”
OK, wow.
It wasn't stolen from them, what is currently Israel was British territory prior to ww2.
And Britain never stole anything from anyone, right?
Administered by Britain but owned by Palestinians
Oh I suppose then it should be given back to the native British then.
"hamas" is quickly becoming an anti-Palestinian slur
It's almost like they're the government or something.
We had a period of frontier wars that lasted 150 years. It was grossly asymmetric but the estimates for colonial casualties run into the thousands.
Were those casualties civilians though, or were they mostly soldiers? That's the key difference.
Good thing war is so blank and white, makes it easier to affirm my side is the good side
There's one side that have done some very questionable things over the years, and there's another that went out of their way to massacre civilians. I'm by no means a fan of Israel, but Hamas are outright evil.