Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood
sqgl@beehaw.org 6 months agoBecause I imagine a state needs to be defined physically before it can be recognised.
Labor seem to be working on the hard yards, Greens are trolling with theatre.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I saw the statement before I ever saw the result of the vote. It’s excruciatingly simple.
It couldn’t be more simple.
Labor doesn’t support it because they support Israel and the genocide Israel is perpetuating. Or to be more accurate, they’re accepting of genocide as long as it doesn’t upset America. There’s nothing more to it.
sqgl@beehaw.org 6 months ago
That is simpleton level of simplicity.
Penny Wong went to the region pushing the 2SS. That is about 15 million.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Words are worth nothing compared to action. With a stroke of a pen she could recognise the Palestinian state. With little more effort than that, the Government could cease selling or buying weapons from Israel. Not doing so is a deliberate choice to signal support for Israel.
If you’re going to continue defending genocide, I’m done here. I won’t put up with that shit.
sqgl@beehaw.org 6 months ago
It isn’t “action” to recognize a borderless state. Or are we talking about a government? A dictatorial, bigoted, racist government in the form of Hamas.
Supplying weapons at this point I believe to be unethical because the invasion of Rafah is futile except as an excuse for ethnic cleansing. The same kind of cleansing that Hamas have been hell-bent on for decades. I am not in favor of either.
Israel isn’t committing “genocide” though. That is not what the UN called it and for good reason.
lsrael could kill every Palestinian if they wanted to but don’t.
Hamas wants to kill every Jewish Israeli but cannot.