Tag: Israel and palestine conflict

Australia to resume funding for UN aid agency

The Age/ David Crowe and Olivia Ireland/15.3.2024 On the one hand Australia Government start funding again whilst cancelling visa’s for the very same people – the irony seems not to be experienced by them!!! Mark Australia will restore a $6 million funding pledge to the peak United Nations body that helps the Palestinian people in Gaza after a seven-week suspension due to claims that some of the agency’s staff took part in the Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians last October. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said

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Power and protest: Why Muslim leaders have left the table

The Age/Chip Le Grand/16.3.2024 Being a Muslim and supporting Palestinians has never been harder – God bless them all – Mark Dismayed by horrific scenes in Gaza and political equivocation towards Israel, Muslim leaders are disengaging from government and shunning multi-faith forums. There are two tables in two different parts of Melbourne which tell the story of what the war in Gaza – the most socially corrosive conflict Australia has experienced since Vietnam – is doing to Australia’s Muslim leadership and the communities they represent. The

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Benjamin Netanyahu threatens ‘dramatic confrontation’ with Joe Biden

The Australian/13.3.2024 Another smoke and mirrors statement – Netanyahu does not care what any President or Prime Minister thinks nor does he care what normal humanitarian people think – his whole focus is on murder, genocide and Apartheid and staying in power so that his own illegal actions cannot go before a court – Mark Benjamin Netanyahu has reacted furiously to a US intelligence assessment that warns the Israeli Prime Minister’s hold on office “may be in jeopardy” warning of a “public and dramatic” confrontation with

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Ramadan begins but joy, like food, is scant

The Age/ Samy Magdy/13.3.2024 How can the politicians across the world, led by Netanyahu, Biden, Sunak, continue to believe this is acceptable – using religious events to continue to refuse access to food and water for the innocents – Mark RAFAH: Palestinians have begun fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with ceasefire talks at a standstill, hunger worsening across the Gaza Strip and no end in sight to the war between Israel and Hamas. Prayers were held outside amid the rubble of demolished buildings

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US floats aid plan while providing arms

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / New York Times / Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt | 12 March 2024 How do the USA politicians square this conundrum – providing aid to the victims of the genocide that they are leading by supplying the arms – Mark WASHINGTON: The United States has a history of using its military to get food, water and other humanitarian relief to civilians during wars or natural disasters. The walls of the Pentagon are decorated with photographs of such operations in

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PM faces heat over UNRWA funding call

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald | Matthew Knott | 12 March 2024 Cowards – aid for innocent children should not be withheld because our politicians are being bullied by the Israeli Government and their lies – Mark The Albanese government says it will not reinstate funding to the UN’s main provider of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territories until an investigation into the agency is complete as it prepares for a backlash from the Israeli government and its local advocates. Sweden and Canada announced in

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The 10-year-old boy who has become the face of starvation in Gaza

(The Age, 11/3/2024) This takes me back to the Ethiopian starvation / famines of the 80’s and 90’s – how can the USA and the UK let this happen – Mark It is all too easy to trace the skull beneath the boy’s face, the pallid skin stretching tight over every curve of bone and sagging with every hollow. His chin juts with a disturbing sharpness. His flesh has shrunk and shrivelled, life reduced to little more than a thin mask over an imminent death. In

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Palestinians killed in food airdrops

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / Reuters, AP | Aamer Madhani | 10 March 2024 How really awful – but the air drops are so little way too late anyway – Mark Humanitarian airdrops into the Gaza Strip have killed civilians, in the latest tragedy for Palestinians since the war between Hamas and Israel began. The US military’s Central Command, which oversees the Mideast, issued the statement on X, formerly Twitter, which said: ‘‘We are aware of reports of civilians killed as a result of

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As Gaza teeters on the brink of famine, these Israeli girls are trying to block aid trucks at the border

ABC | Eric Tlozek, Orly Halpern and Haidarr Jones at the Kerem Shalom crossing | 10 March 2024 Sadly the same type of young Jewish girls are also using social media to describe all Palestinian’s as ‘animals’ that must be destroyed etc. If only their energy was directed at peace the hostages would never have been taken and so many lives saved on all sides – Mark While Palestinians inside Gaza face starvation, some Israelis are trying to stop supplies from getting into the besieged territory.Protesters

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