It is now very obvious that the Albanese government is determined to assist Israel in ensuring that the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are undermined and rendered unworkable.

Within hours of Israel being ordered by the ICJ (approved in a 16 to one vote by the court’s judges) to “take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”, Australia “paused” its funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), the UN agency currently attempting to manage refugee camps for more than a million Palestinians and in charge of distributing food and humanitarian aid.

The pretext for Australia’s action was the allegation by Israel, made immediately after the ICJ order, that 12 UNRWA workers in Gaza participated in the Hamas attack of 7 October last year. Whether Australia knew in advance that Israel would make the allegation in the event the ICJ ordered Israel to “take immediate and effective measures” to enable the flow of aid to Palestinians, is unknown, but the speed of the Australian response, without asking any questions – in conformity with the US of course – is striking.

There is a pattern here that can be followed. The Albanese government refused to support any aspect of South Africa’s case to the ICJ, saying it didn’t “support the premise” of the case, following the Washington line of it being “meritless” and “without factual basis”, while using slightly different vacuous language, such as it wasn’t a “pathway to peace” or a “political solution”.

Apparently Australia’s “pathway to peace” and a “political solution” is to be one of four “countries” to provide direct support for American and British military operations against Yemen.

This is all in accord with the complete failure of the Albanese government to condemn the mass murder and mass destruction occurring in Gaza. The massacre of at least 30,000 people, the physical maiming of tens of thousands more, the terrorising of more than two million, the destruction of hospitals, schools, dense urban housing and infrastructure, and the deliberate targeting of refugee camps, food and medical supplies, and the promotion of starvation and disease throughout the whole population, is simply a faux “concern”.

If all these failures are indicative of a morally bankrupt government, then that has been amplified by Penny Wong’s deeply cynical political exercise in informing Israeli president Herzog and other Israeli leaders who have expressed their intention to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza, that Australia stood “in solidarity” with them.

Wong’s “solidarity” was accepted by Herzog with gratitude, and when Wong dishonestly said that Australia as a “nation” was in solidarity, she was only accurate in her representation of the Australian Labor-Liberal political establishment’s allegiance to whatever policy position was held by Washington.

The Albanese’s government’s explicit “solidarity” with Israel, especially to Herzog, who has been specifically referenced by the ICJ in relation to their order to Israel “to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide”, highlights the contempt that the Albanese government has to the United Nations except as a platform to use for blatant partisan political purposes or in abject vassalage to Washington.

The Australian government – in fact the whole Labor-Liberal political class – has offered no support at all to the efforts of Secretary-General Guterres to stop the Gaza slaughter, in word or deed. The Albanese government virtually shunned the visit of UN special envoy Francesca Albanese to Australia, Penny Wong refusing to meet her. This again reflects a persistent hostility of Labor to the UN, a hostility which has been in operation since the bipartisan Labor-Liberal refusal to adhere to human rights conventions in relation to refugees and the rights of children.

No doubt Australia’s senior leaders Albanese, Wong and Marles, feel safe in helping Israel avoid the order to ensure the provision of urgent services and humanitarian aid to Gaza, even though UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese has said that Australia could be in violation of their obligations under the Genocide Convention by “collectively punishing millions of Palestinians at the most critical time.”

Human rights lawyer Francis Boyle has gone further, saying that states which have cut funds to the UNRWA are doing more than “aiding and abetting Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians in violation of Genocide Convention article 3 (e) criminalising ‘complicity’ in genocide”. According to Boyle they “are now also directly violating Genocide Convention article 2(c) by themselves: ‘Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’”.

The wretched banality of Australia as a fully-fledged lackey of the United States is on full global display. As writer Jennifer Wilson has so aptly stated:


“There can be little more morally degenerate than the enabling of and cooperation with what the ICJ has warned is Israel’s “plausible genocide” in Gaza. Wong and Albanese have lost all moral authority and should prepare themselves for their every public utterance to be greeted with contempt, derision and scorn.”

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Israel plans to directly occupy the Gaza Strip after the war is over, giving its forces freedom to carry out military operations and assassinations as they do now in the West Bank, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on 30 January.

“After the war, when it’s over, I think it’s completely clear that Hamas won’t control Gaza. Israel will control [it] militarily but won’t control it in a civilian sense,” Gallant said at a briefing at his office in Tel Aviv.

“When we’re talking about military freedom of operation, look what happened tonight in Jenin,” Gallant added, referring to the assassination of three Palestinians in the West Bank city early on Tuesday.

Israeli special forces dressed as civilians raided the hospital and killed three Palestinian resistance fighters. According to Palestinian media, one had been injured in a raid in October and was receiving treatment while the others were visiting him at the hospital.

“This is military freedom of operation at the highest level, and yet we don’t control the area in a civilian sense,” Gallant says. “This is achievable [in Gaza as well], and it will take time.”

Gallant’s comments suggest he wants Israel to occupy Gaza while shunning the responsibilities of an occupying power toward the Palestinian civilian population as required under international humanitarian law (IHL) 

IHL includes ensuring sufficient hygiene and public health standards and providing food and medical care to the population under occupation. Israel has been destroying Gaza’s hospitals and health system, while imposing a blockade to limit the entry of food and water.

IHL prohibits collective or individual forcible transfers of the population from and within the occupied territory as well as transfers of the civilian population of the occupying power into the occupied territory.

Commenting on this issue, Defense Minister Gallant told US officials last week that he and the Israeli military will not allow the rebuilding of illegal outposts or settlements by Israeli settlers inside the Gaza Strip, four US and Israeli officials told Axios.

But on Sunday, 12 ministers and 18 lawmakers in Israel’s governing coalition gathered at a conference to promote the forcible expulsion of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians and to build Jewish settlements in enclave. 

Shortly after the start of the war in October, a document was leaked from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence outlining a plan to expel the population of Gaza under the pretext of humanitarian concern. 

Members of Israel’s settler movement have for years advocated the reconquest and resettlement of Gaza. In 2005, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the dismantling of the Gush Katif settlement block and the evacuation of Jewish settlers from Gaza. 

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AS WE KNOW, HAMAS IS AN ISRAELI INVENTION TO SPLIT THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY — CREATING A TERRORIST CELL THAT JUSTIFIES ISRAEL REVENGE FROM TIME TO TIME TO TAKE MORE LAND AWAY FROM THE PALESTINIAN...

AS WE ALSO KNOW THE WHOLE PRESENT PROCESS FROM OCTOBER 7 IS TO DISPOSSESS GAZANS FROM THEIR OWN SPACE, BUT MAINLY FROM THEIR OFFSHORE WEALTH: GAS FIELDS.

AS WE KNOW, JO BINUDENBLINK (BIDEN'S TELEPROMPTER) HAS SHUT DOWN FUTURE EXPORTS OF AMERICAN LNG TO EUROPE AND ASIA... ASIA DOES NOT CARE LESS AS IT CAN GET CHEAP RUSSIAN GAS. EUROPE IS IN A HUGE PICKLE BECAUSE IT'S NOT ALLOWED TO GET CHEAP RUSSIAN GAS.

ISRAEL IS COMMITTING A GENOCIDE IN FULL LIGHT AND ONLY THE HOUTHIES ARE DOING SOMETHING PRACTICAL TO STOP THEM...

WE ALSO KNOW THAT JOE BIDEN CONCERN FOR WARMING THE PLANET WITH BURNING FOSSIL FUEL, THUS STOPPING EXPORT OF LNG, IS BULLSHIT... IF HE REALLY BELIEVED IN GLOBAL WARMING HE WOULD STOP SUPPLYING UKRAINE WITH EXPLOSIVE SHIT.

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American actor John Cusack was chosen
As “Anti-Semite of the Week” by Stop Anti-Semitism USA
For his public expression of his pro-Palestinian views.
The actor said in his words:
▪️ “I pity those bastards who think I care about my future projects in Hollywood while committing genocide in Gaza.”
▪️ “We reject the lie that the security of one country depends on the destruction of another people.”
▪️ “Oh my God, whoever does not want a ceasefire has no soul. We cannot stop until these attacks stop.”
Staying silent is the most shameful thing I can imagine.
▪️ “The immorality of the West’s position is unparalleled, and words are insufficient to express it
. “Imagine that October 7 (Hamas attack) lasted for 115 days?