Israel

[Irrev-Black]

Less news might get out, but the world is still watching.

https://kolektiva.social/deck/@netblock ... 9596833354

[wadaye]

As the night closes in, the genocide becomes invisible, as it is for so many other "others" of the world

So too it must have been in the time of enslavement and colonial genocide. We went about our daily lives as we do now, most people oblivious to the torture and murder and rape inflicted in their name

[wadaye]

We are part of the Israel AUKUS alliance and our Prime Minister Netanyahu is using us, including Australian dual citizen Israeli soldiers, to sacrifice Palestinians in the name of conquest. It is beyond vengeance. It is not enough that some Jews say not in my name, it also has to be non-Jewish Americans and Australians too.

For the record no State has a right to exist. States have behaviour which when the violate the laws of war curtail their "right to exist". We saw this with the final termination of the nazi regime. The Israeli-AUKUS genocide of Palestinians is equally unacceptable.

[Irrev-Black]

There is an old saying that, if everyone you meet all day is an arsehole, maybe you're the arsehole...

https://kolektiva.social/@aral@mastodon ... 5860759407

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1024 ... -comments/

https://www.politico.eu/article/israel- ... l-parties/

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i ... 24053.html

[wadaye]

Imagining and demanding the decolonization of Palestine means acting to decolonize all the colonial states in the world, from Brazil to Australia, including the USA and Chile. ...The discussion that reduces responsibility for the massacre in Gaza to the current government masks all the massacres committed against Palestinians throughout history, such as Deir Yassin in 1948, and the colonial project itself. It wasn’t Benjamin Netanyahu or the Israeli far right who founded the colonial project and apartheid, but the Israeli left. For example, the kibbutzim, well-known proto-socialist farming communities, have been central to advancing the Zionist-Israeli colonial frontier throughout history and have always been exclusively Jewish communities. There are kibbutzim that even today have the right to veto non-Jewish inhabitants (mainly Palestinians). So Israel doesn”t just have a colonial government, but a social structure made up of decades of incessant colonialism....What is even more curious is the fact that it is not only Zionists who affirm the unrestricted right of the State of Israel to exist. Many of those who advocate a “two-state solution” are now unable to imagine the self-determination of the Jewish people without the ties of the colonial state; ironically, this imaginary makes the two-state solution itself unfeasible. To affirm Jewish self-determination only through the Israeli state is exactly how Zionists envision it, leading to the one-state format that already exists: an apartheid regime and the consolidation of a catastrophic expulsion, that of the Palestinians. ...And this destruction no longer means expulsion and displacement, nor the construction of one, two or three states, but the re-founding of the social bases for peaceful and just reconciliation between Palestinians and Jews. ...The Colombian president seeks to connect the violence in his territory with the historic Israeli intervention in Colombia and treats Palestine as a paradigm of catastrophe that deserves our attention due to the global risk of conflict and collapse in the face of the climate crisis. However, Petro’s action demonstrates that it is still easier for international actors critical of Israel to invest in improving their relationship with the fragile Palestinian Authority than to actually disrupt their relationship with the State of Israel. ... . Imagining and demanding the decolonization of Palestine means acting to decolonize all the colonial states in the world, from Brazil to Australia, including the US and Chile. It is a particular struggle that expresses the liberation of oppressed peoples all over the world. Decolonizing Brazil means contributing to the decolonization of Palestine and vice versa.

Radical futures involve equally radical modes of action.

https://africasacountry.com/2023/10/isr ... esolutions

So it goes beyond a Democrat/Republican thing with feaux concerns about our best welfare being under Democrats. Both sides are driving for the natives in the furnaces. Its the British and French empires and Spanish and German too for that matter and their spawnings - successors - running riot over the world.

The British empire born of enslavement and genocide of natives, (as well as the Spanish and French for that matter) mutated and morphed into its current iterations including Australia, the United States, and Israel.

Each is the successor entity and each is responsible for the translatlantic slave trade and the historical genocides of Indigenous Africans, Native Americans, Australian Aborigines.

These are morphings not reincarnations of the British empire. The empires invented international law to claim to cover their tracks. Then they said that international law doesn't apply to them .

Panashe Chigumadzi is mind opening in saying that we can't achieve justice without the destruction of the modern world system as we know it and that requires historical vision.

https://africasacountry.com/2023/10/wit ... pologizing

We colonialists have robbed ourselves of a historical pride. The British empire included 2023 Australia, with its feaux pride of genocide, enslavement, conquest, and fake magnanimity, going back a thousand years. We have no ancestral wisdom to call upon. None at all, except for those who did fight and die against colonial oppression.

[Irrev-Black]

Perhaps the most egregious example of the Albanese government’s sanctioning the view that Israel is a ‘special case’ when it comes to war crimes, was in an October 10 interview with ABC Radio in Perth by Defence Minister Richard Marles. Asked about whether it was justified for the Israeli Defence Minister to order “the complete siege of Gaza, the cutting off of food, fuel and electricity”, Marles replied this way;

“Well, I think Israel is justified in acting to defend itself in this moment. I think it’s justified in seeking to protect and liberate its citizens and to act against Hamas. I mean, this is an incident which is being wrought upon innocent civilians and it is an act of terrorism. And in this moment, that Israel is acting in a way which is seeking to defend itself, I think we can understand.”

Given that the Albanese government is, as usual, in lockstep with Washington on Israel, it is not inconceivable that it might be asked to supply military assistance if the Gaza conflict continues for weeks or months. The issue would then become whether the Australian government was aiding and abetting war crimes committed by Israel.

Is Oz ignoring war crimes, and engaging in special pleading, just to suckhole up to the USA?

That is a very shabby look. Blood is on the government's hands.

https://michaelwest.com.au/israels-bomb ... ar-crimes/

[wadaye]

The behaviour of these war criminals is equally egregious on the left as the right. I am talking about the Labor Government's diplomatic cover for genocide.

[stylofone]

The idea of left and right is getting to the point of absurdity. This morning on the radio I heard that Israel has ordered a major hospital to be evacuated, presumably because they are going to bomb it. The other thing was that 46% of residential apartments in Gaza have been destroyed. Weeks into the Ukraine invasion just one apartment being hit was viewed as evidence of Putin's brutality. I just can't see any way to justify this, no matter what the history or the big picture is. You just don't bomb hospitals. Saying "Israel has a right to defend itself" is ridiculous, it's beyond Monty Python and getting into the theatre of the the absurd. How is this "defence"?

If there was any sense then the right wing parties in Europe/Australia would be fracturing too. I suspect they will if they aren't already.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... ropes-left

[wadaye]

Wow from the article you posted Stylofone

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), was one of the first heads of government to visit Israel after the Hamas attacks. On his trip, he reasserted that the security and existence of the Israeli state was Germany’s Staatsräson or “reason of state”, literally tied to the foundation of modern Germany

So there is always someone or something to pay the price.
Looked at this way, Germany got living space Lebensraum through its genocides in WWII through the acquisition of Palestine and making the Palestinians pay and die and leave as the price for the Ferman's Holocaustof Jews, Roma, Africans in Europe, ...

Someone or something akways has to pay even with their life and as a scape goat.

[wadaye]

I meant Germans'