As if the current situation where Hamas and Likud are in engaged in an operation to destroy people for no other reason than to prove that they can. The discourse which surrounds this, assumes that if yoyu are not for whatever brand if murderous bastardy that their team is on, that you must by default be in favour of the other side of murderous bastardy on the other. As far as I am concerned, Hamas and Likud are on the same side and innocent people are on the other. I am neither anti-Israel or anti-Palestine but anti-murderous bastardy.
For possibly the first time in a long time, a UN Resolution calling for the immediate ceasefire from both sides in this evil evil conflict was declared and Australia like a sensible nation, voted on the side of sensibility along with 150 other countries. Immediately the increasingly fascist press in this country, yelled from pages of newspapers and Sky News with their parade of minions, sung from the same hymn sheet. The Herald-Sun, Courier-Mail, Adelaide Advertiser, Daily Telegraph and the doyenne of the brownshirt organisation that is News Corp, The Australian, all ran opinion pieces either trying to paint the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as alternatively being lazy and incompetent, or being a diabolical mastermind who controls some kind of secret cabal.
If that wasn't bad enough, Samantha Maiden pontificated on ABC Radio National this morning that all of "mummy bloggers protesting about the genocidal bombings in Gaza, wouldn't be able to find it on a map". Nice work. I bet that that the mummys who have to live through the genocidal bombings in Gaza, can't find their children who have been blown to pieces and now stain the walls as well. Get some humanity.
It took not even one day, for someone either at The Pentagon or the US State Department, to realise that Australia had dared take one step of its own initiative for once in its life, and "request" that Australia commit undefined resources to what could be an impending conflict in the Middle East. The "request" is that Australia send some portion of the Royal Australian Navy, to the Red Sea; with the premise that it would be patrolling and seizing Houthi Rebels who are aligned with Hamas.
Now it doesn't take very much to connect the only two dots in the world's simplest dot-to-dot picture to realise that the United States is unhappy that Australia dared to have an opinion for itself; much less one that didn't align with its own interests. It should be know to you and I and everyone that the United States is the baseline for opinions and anyone else who is in possession of a different opinion must therefore be wrong and punished for it. Anyone who holds a wrong opinion must be brought to heel like a compliant little lap dog; and will be brought into line line by the CIA, FBI, the military in a coup, proxy terrorism, contras, sandistas, anyone else who they happen to find.
As the United States is aligned with Israel and gives Israel a free pass to do whatever the heck it likes, including murdering people, then the United States will always vote on the side of Israel. The Jewish and Christian Right portion of the United States' political and military machine, has this peculiar belief that it they don't unequivocally act in favour of Israel, then they will miss out on some kind of blessing, and that supernatural beings will punish them, the earth will punish them and that space will punish them. Do unto others before they do it to you and do it with such force and brutality that they don't think about doing it or can't think about doing it.
As a nation, Austria has almost never been allowed to to have an opinion for itself. Up until 1940, Australia was an unthinking outpost of Empire and as soon as it was able, was called upon to lubricate the Empires gears of war with blood. Australians were sent as cannon fodder and eventually fertiliser for the fields across South Africa, Africa, and Europe (twice). Only when Prime Minister Curtin dared to suggest that Australia have a spine, did anything change; which was a good thing as Australians were then called lubricate the gears of war with blood in the Pacific. In 1949, that had to come to an end. Prime Minster Menzies, after having burned his previous political party to ashes, phoenixed back to power and permanently attached Australia to the United States like an angler fish. Since then, more Australians have been sent to die in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq (twice); and when we politely asked for some help in East Timor, the United States politely told us to 'get stuffed', like the pathetic little thing we are.
So it should come as no surprise that the very tory and increasingly fascist press in this country, should be joining in the chorus of barberous howling morons of Jewish and Christian Right portion of the United States' political and military machine, and demanding that we commit to sending equipment to the Middle East under premise of stopping Houthi piracy. After all, since this is government money they they want to spend, it can be painted as wasteful if a Labor Government is in charge or invoking a moral cause if a Liberal Government is in charge - or in fact both if you own the narrative. 2+2=5 or 3, or 4, or anything else they want you to believe.
None of this changes the fact that innocent Israeli citizens have been destroyed by murderous bastards. None of this changes the fact that innocent Palestinian citizens have been destroyed by murderous bastards. Unless the end game is uniform and complete destruction of every single soul, then this whole conflict has no proper objective. Israel exists and will continue to exist. Palestine exists and will continue to exist. This whole operation in essence, only exists to destroy people for no other reason than to prove that they can.
If your proposed national policy does not firstly consider people as valuable or as worthy of life, then you are as much at fault at the murderous bastards who make policy. People cry. People hurt. People die. People matter - except if you happen to be part of the chorus of bloodthirsty barbarous howling morons.
Aside:
11th November should not be about remembering the contribution made by soldiers in serving their country. Way way way back in time, when the horrors of the biggest conflict in the history of the world, fought with new machines and chemicals, was simply not allowed to fade because people still carried it with them, the day was instituted to remember the Armistice. 11th November was the day that the guns fell silent. Everything stopped. That day, at 1 past 11, was the only truly noble day of the First World War. We should be rightly angry at men (almost always men) who send other peoples' sons and daughters off to become meat and grist for the grinder.
Yes, we forget.
We can not remember because literally nobody is left to do so. Yet here we are, refusing to learn any lessons from the past, and people in power are demanding that we prepare fresh meat to start it all again.
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