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Australian PM Albanese says Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is ‘an outrage’

www.theguardian.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30678096

Josh Butler
Sun 25 May 2025 21.56 EDT
"In a press conference on Monday morning, Albanese said: “#Israel’s actions are completely unacceptable.”
“It is outrageous that there be a blockade of food and supplies to people who are in need in #Gaza … People are starving. The idea that a democratic state withholds supply is an outrage.”"

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Or more accurately, mister Albanese, it's a war crime.

For those unfamiliar with Prime Minister Albanese:
Founding member and secretary of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine around 2000^[https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/29/protester-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-israel-palestine/]
Complicit in the zionist regime's recent invasions and ongoing genocide in Gaza
Australia trades with the regime, and arrested port protesters and members of the Maritime Union of Australia, including the leader of the Sydney branch
Australia is the sole exporter of the F-35 bomber fuselage
Australia repeatedly supported the invasion through UN voting
- I also lost quite a bit of respect for Penny Wong when she wasn't willing to condemn this at the outset: Israel's order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong
  Though to be fair, Dutton was never going to be a better option.
  
  Though to be fair, Dutton was never going to be a better option.
  Luckily we're not trapped in a two-party dichotomy, Liberal's opinions are slowly mattering less and less and minor candidates are getting more of the pie.
- Just fyi, you didn't format the link correctly. You have to do [text].(link) without the dot.
  
  Lemmy's web UI formats it as a footnote^[1], I didn't realise other apps might not read that formatting:
- Polls must have shown it's popular to stand with Palestine.
  I like the Albanese government but it is very quiet when there is an issue that conflicts with the parties values or donors.

No shit sherlock. I do feel that this empty rhetoric is psychological comfort to convince Western elites who are complicit in the genocide, as well as their voters, that they are civilized and moral.
- Us in Australia are almost universally disgusted by what Israel is doing, and we hold 'Murica in pretty damned low esteem too

He did not say it with hashtags, why has that been added?
- The hashtags were added in Mastodon and I forgot to remove them in Lemmy, sorry.

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