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finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Who the fuck thought letting child murdering IDF inhumans into our country was a good idea? And if they’re citizens, then fuck them off to Israel anyway, since the IDF’s undisputable zeal for mass murder is incompatible with modern Australian values! Or, at least, it fucking should be!

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dillekant@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It sucks because apparently we do not extend this to people fighting in Ukraine. It’s technically illegal for an Australian citizen to fight for another country IIUC.

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- zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s technically illegal for an Australian citizen to fight for another country IIUC.
  
  No, it’s not illegal to fight in the armed forces of another country, it’s illegal to fight under any other circumstances:
  
  Under Part 5.5 of the Criminal Code, it is an offence to:
  
  enter a foreign country with an intention to engage in a hostile activity, unless serving in or with the armed forces of the government of a foreign country
  
  prepare to enter, or for another person to enter, a foreign country with an intention to engage in a hostile activity
  
  recruit persons to join an organisation engaged in hostile activities, or to serve in or with an armed force in a foreign country.
  
  From this page: ag.gov.au/…/foreign-incursions-and-recruitment-of…
  
  There may be organisations violating the law against recruitment with regards to the IDF, though: …com.au/lone-soldiers-new-australian-idf-recruits…
  
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  - dillekant@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Thanks for the clarification. That’s a strange carve out.
    
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