Mehreen Faruqi said the Greens would continue to pressure the government to call for an Israel-Gaza ceasefire
It comes after Australia abstained from the UN vote for a humanitarian truce
Acting government Senate leader Don Farell accused the Greens of “making hay” of the “difficult situation”
When asking for casefire is too much to support, while committing genocide and war crimes, against the will of the people you know your government is corrupt.
There was a ceasefire. Hamas broke it. Should Israel just say “haha, you cheeky devils, stop that” and go back to living their lives?
Hamas are determined to capture, torture, murder, mutilate and otherwise destroy the citizens of Israel. Celebrating jihad and martyrdom is completely at odds with Western values. How are women, the lgbt community, and non-Muslims supposed to exist and lead enjoyable, meaningful, and fulfilling lives if hamas and it’s allies control the region?
Nobody in the West condones needless killing, it’s literally one of the things that sets us apart from our enemies. Broadly, we indiscriminately value human life. Israel drop pamphlets, send text messages, call mobiles and landlines, and use “roof knocking” explosives to warn civilians of impending strikes. Know who tells them to stay? Hamas. Because death is not a bad thing for them, it is to be celebrated. There is no better thing than to be a martyr and be welcomed to paradise.
If Israel intended to commit genocide, they wouldn’t be sending their troops in, they’d just level Gaza. They want their hostages back, and jihadists eliminated.
There’s no simple answer to all of this, because religion is one helluva drug, but one religion is a hell of a lot more compatible with our western values.
You are repeating arguments the UN officials, US foreign relations related officials, resigned over.
All your arguments are proven lies. Yet here you are repeating the exact same things after a month.
You should be a shame of yourself.
I watched a video of a man have his head removed brutally with a garden hoe.
I’ve listened to a phone call from an ordinary Palestinian to his parents, elated that he’s murdered 10 innocent Israelis on October 7th. His parents plead for him to come home but he responds “either we win or we die”.
Explain to me how this isn’t a death cult? Explain what supporting hamas looks like?
Perhaps I was too subtle in my last comment. I don’t agree with Israel’s outright response to October 7 as it will inevitably lead to a whole new wave of Islamic fanatics hell bent on establishing a caliphate and wiping everyone they disagree with from the map. However ideologies that cannot get past 14th century thinking have no place in our modern world, and should be eliminated, violently or otherwise.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The health ministry in Gaza estimates almost 9,800 Palestinians — including at least 4,000 children — have been killed in Israeli strikes in the current conflict.
Last month, Australia abstained from voting in the UN General Assembly on a call for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in Gaza.
Senator Faruqi said the Labor government would be remembered as “warmongers” and that history would judge the party for staying “silent and complicit in the massacre of Palestinians”.
Acting government Senate leader Don Farrell criticised the Greens for their walkout in solidarity with Palestinians.
“I don’t think any particular political party seeking to make hay out of this terrible situation is going to advance the position in Australia,” he said.
Senator Faruqi said it was disgraceful to frame calls for a ceasefire and stop to the siege in Gaza as a political play.
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