David Littleproud has indeed very little to be proud of.
When he says; "The Israeli government is only doing what its people are expecting of them.” does he really think this makes it ok to kill civilians, aid workers and little children?
@Spoon
Reading far too much Leon Uris in my younger days, my introduction to the history was the alternative history that underpins Israeli Zionism. Realising the carefully crafted deceit came slowly.
I was recently challenged to deny that Jews are "indigenous" to the area. My response that there are Moslems, Jews and Christians who are indigenous was met with an assertion that Jews were there "first".
The region being a route from Africa to Europe, there's evidence of modern humans in the area 120,000 years ago. Judaism hasn't existed that long.
Before that, there were other hominids. The earliest remains are estimated to be 1.5 million years old.
Israeli Zionism has little to do with religion @Jakra
They use "Jewish" as a label for their in-group and exploit Jewish mythology for their 'hasbara', but they're just as comfortable beating up Orthodox Jews as they are killing Palestinians.
"Palestinians are the primary resistors and victims of zionism, but Jews are targets too. Israel had to be built on the ruins of worlds Jews were part of long before zionism,"
Must-read reporting by +972 on how the IDF are using “AI” in their indiscriminate murder in Gaza. It’s horrific, and we must not look away. And it’s an absolute nightmare of the usual sorts of AI harms cranked up to the extreme: mass surveillance, "we don't have any choice but to automate", AI as pretext for deadly violence.
@emilymbender
"... according to the sources, when it came to targeting alleged junior militants marked by Lavender, the army preferred to only use unguided missiles, commonly known as “dumb” bombs (in contrast to “smart” precision bombs), which can destroy entire buildings on top of their occupants and cause significant casualties. “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people" ..."
"the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present ... from ... an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” ... were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences." #AusPol#IsraelPalestineConflict#israel#Palestine#genocide#UN#WCK#EthnicCleansing#CrimesAgainstHumanity @palestine
PM says he's calling in the Israeli Ambassador to demand a full explanation. Don't call them in Albo, kick them out. There's no way Australia should continue as a friend and ally of Israel. They are a rogue state that has a long history of disdain for the rule of law and human rights. #auspol
@smitjo
The death toll does support a case that Israel is deliberately targeting aid workers. Aid impedes the "final solution".
" more than 196 humanitarian workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 – an alarmingly high figure that has caused barely a peep from our Israel-allied government. ... that figure is higher than the deadliest year ever recorded for aid workers globally, with the secretary-general of Médecins Sans Frontières telling the UN in February that the pattern of Israeli attacks on humanitarian efforts was “either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence”."