Australia Israel relations: Labor members push for arms embargo over Gaza war
www.smh.com.au

Anger is rising among Labor’s base over the war in Gaza, with nearly 80 local branches passing motions over recent weeks calling for Australia to impose sanctions on the Netanyahu government and sever military ties with Israel.

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Seventy-eight Labor branches have passed motions calling for far-reaching sanctions against Israeli entities and individuals involved in the war and a two-way arms embargo on Israel, including the supply of military parts and components.

The branches include one in Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s home city of Adelaide and three in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Sydney electorate of Grayndler.

“Strong words are not enough,” the conveners of the Labor Friends of Palestine group said in a letter sent to Wong on Wednesday and seen by this masthead.

“Expressions of concern and repeated calls for restraint have achieved little in the last 21 months; indeed Israel’s violence and clear disdain for international humanitarian law have only intensified.”

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      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        “I don’t hate Jews, I just don’t care about the war in Europe. Those crazy politicians who want to stop supporting Nazi Germany should join the Greens!”

        -ikt in 1939

          • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            Oh, so you do actually care, and you do actually hate the Palestinians, it’s just that you support Israel’s genocide. Dishonest Nazi

            the Israeli’s and Palestinians are currently at war because:

            History didn’t start on October 7th, Nazi. Israel already had most of Palestine under a brutal military occupation (under which they had moved a tenth of their population into illegal settlements in undisputed violation of international law) and had the rest of it under a brutal blockade (which is also against international law) and were regularly killing and kidnapping it’s citizen, having murdered Palestinians as recently as the week before October 7th

            But of course, you know all this, you’re just lying, like how you were lying about not caring.

            if Hamas wants to stop the civilians dying it can fight on the open battlefield

            Please point on a map of Gaza to where you would consider it acceptable for Hamas to fight back against the invaders currently exterminating their entire people. And also maybe explain how this would save civilians when Israel has made it clear their objective is the full extermination of all Gazans

      • mranachi@aussie.zone
        3·
        3 days ago

        Is Australia supporting one side of that war?Providing military equipment to one side? Are we trading with then?

        I don’t know the answers, but if we are then I think we should also stop doing that.

          • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            Oh no you got me. I’m such a hypocrite. Tell you what, I’ll go down to the local mosque and protest islamic jihadism across Northern Africa just as soon as you go down to the local synagogue to protest zionist ethnic cleaning and apartheid in Occupied Palestine. Deal?

      • lemmingrad@thelemmy.club
        21·
        3 days ago

        You don’t care about the war in Darfour either? Lmao what a pos.

        If australia get bombed don’t come whining at us. I’ll have no empathy either lmao