Prime Minister Anthony Albanese needs to consider progressive moves toward an Australian republic to boost chances of another term in government.
Political reconstruction vital for Albanese re-election
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posturing for domestic politics than a direct demand for a ceasefire.
The Israel Lobby in Australia has more than considerable influence
Penny Wong said she had reiterated to Israel Australia’s opposition to the invasion on Wednesday and called for a humanitarian ceasefire to enable hostages to be released and unimpeded aid to flow.
Wong urges Israel to halt ‘devastating’ invasion
Britain’s “mandate” over Palestine from 1920-48 left an apparatus of repression which Israel inherited and still uses today in its ferocious war on Palestinians, writes A. Bustos.Israel’s present use of collective punishment against Palestinians owes much of its origins to British rule in Palestine.
So too do the aerial bombardments, military raids, use of Palestinian civilians as human shields and the infrastructure of military law deployed against an occupied, overwhelmingly civilian population.
Britain ruled Palestine during its “mandate” between 1920-48, and its repressive infrastructure came into full force during the 1936-39 Great Arab Revolt.
In 1936, Palestine erupted into a national uprising following two decades of peaceful resistance against British rule and several failed uprisings over the 1920s, as the political and economic situation became dire for the Arab majority.
The uprising called for an end to British support for Zionist colonisation and a guarantee of Palestinian self-determination. Britain, however, saw it as a threat to its rule and responded with brutal repression.
By the end of the revolt, 10 percent of the adult male Arab population were either killed, wounded, imprisoned or exiled by the British.
This
brought the revolt to an end, devastated Palestinian society and left
it defenceless against Zionist militia groups during the 1948 Nakba
(catastrophe). Then, over two-thirds of the Palestinian people were
ethnically cleansed from their country to establish the state of
Israel.
Israel’s Brutality Draws on British Rule
Like the previous Vietnam generation of baby boomers, US university students are waking up to the atrocities their government commits or helps its client states to commit around the world.
Palestine is the ‘red pill’ for America’s Gen Z
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Pitching Pro-Palestine protest encampments on their campuses, students risk their futures and physical safety by putting their bodies […]
This Generation’s Vietnam: Students are Protesting Israeli Genocide, meeting Media and Political Vilification
The ABC now faces an awful dilemma. If, as now seems certain, it loses the media bargaining code revenue it has been receiving from Facebook, now Meta, it will have to sack many of the 60 journalists and support staff it has recruited since entering into commercial contracts in 2021.
Mark Zuckerberg seems to want to take all he can get from Australian advertisers and consumers and give nothing back.
Last month Nine’s communications correspondent Calum Jaspan reported that of the $1.34billion Meta Australian gross revenue in 2023 , $1.14billion was repatriated offshore through a “purchase of services” agreement for ad space. Meta paid Australian tax on profit from only the remaining declared revenue.
Meta versus Australia
Ben-Gvir posts cryptic message: ‘Hamas loves Biden’
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who often uses social media to harangue political opponents, has posted a love heart emoji between the words Hamas and Biden, appearing to insinuate that the Palestinian armed group loves US President Joe Biden.
There are no other comments in his post on the X platform.
Ben-Gvir’s post comes after the Biden administration confirmed on Wednesday that the US had blocked a weapons shipment to Israel over the Israeli military’s plans to assault Rafah.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, seemingly reacting to the post, called the far-right minister a national liability and urged Netanyahu to immediately fire him.
“If Netanyahu doesn’t dismiss Ben-Gvir today, he puts every soldier in the [Israeli military] and every citizen in the state of Israel in danger,” Lapid wrote on X.
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