United Nations General Assembly prepares to vote on motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday 12 December at 3:00pm (New York Time) - Watch Live
(Update, 6:24am Wed 13 Dec: The meeting won't be starting for another 36 minutes, that is, 7am AEDT in Victoria and NSW and 8am AEST in Brisbane.Apologies, for my miscalculation.) Tomorrow at 3pm New York Time or, in Australia, at 6pm AEDT in Victoria and NSW or at 5pm AEST in Queensland, the United Nations General Assembly will commence a meeting to discuss and vote on a motion calling for a c
US trashes human rights of Palestinians - IPAN
- The US recently blocked a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza
- The Australian Government must call strongly for a ceasefire, withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and massive humanitarian aid for Gazans
- The Israeli ambassador should be expelled until such actions are taken.
Miko Peled, citizen of Israel, condemns Israel's mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza - Video
Yesterday, on 8 December 2023, Miko Peled, spoke at a public meeting about Israel's murderous war against Gaza, which commenced over two months ago on 7 October and the broader context of the history of the Palestine/Israel conflict going back more than 75 years. Much of what he said from his own personal experience. The meeting was held in the public library of Bethlehem in the US state of New York.
Israel's Gaza bombardment unconscionable, indescribable, must stop - Plan International
"The horror and trauma children are facing in Gaza right now is indescribable and unconscionable - suffering and killing must stop now." (Plan International Australia, 6 December 2023)
Suffering and killing in Gaza must stop now
After a pause in fighting for just one week, Plan International is devastated by the resumption of violence in Gaza over the weekend and the shocking number of civilians and children being killed in a matter of days.
Melbourne protest again for Palestine - Sunday 17 December 12pm, State Library
The bombings continue to destroy residential buildings, schools and hospitals. the blockade is tightening and the slaughter of Palestinians is escalating.
The global Palestine solidarity movement must continue to stand with Palestine, now more than ever.
We need to take march for Palestine and demand a REAL end to the bombing; a full withdrawal of Israel troops from Gaza, lift the siege, stop colonising the West Bank, release all Palestinian political prisoners now. We also call on the Australian government to cut ties with Apartheid Israel.
Israel expands its mass starvation campaign to include more than 65 percent of the Gaza Strip
Geneva - Israel has expanded its total ban on humanitarian supplies entering large areas of the Gaza Strip as part of its ongoing genocide, waged since 7 October, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Monday in a statement emphasising Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon against civilians.
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Australia must act to stop Israel’s mass murder of Gaza Palestinians
What animals are some of the silliest animals to exist? - by Gary Meaney
Well, it’s got to be the platypus. Everything about the platypus is utterly ridiculous. The fact that this animal even exists is is a defiant middle finger to everything we traditionally thought about how mammals work. It’s no secret that it looks weird, but I doubt many know just how weird it truly is, so let’s take a deep dive into the platypus world.
Why Adolf Eichmann would have been acquitted if he had been tried under Australian law (article by Ian McAuley)
Imagine if the Nürnberg trials after the 1939-45 war had never gone ahead, because Göring, Höss, Keitel, Streicher and other Nazis could have rebutted any possible proceedings with the defence “I had to follow the Führer’s orders.” The primacy of official orders seems to dominate in the prosecution of David McBride, the army lawyer who leaked classified information to the ABC, revealing allegations of crimes committed by special forces in Afghanistan.
Is Facebook protecting visitors from 'sensitive content' or trying to hide this evidence of Israel's murder of a Palestinian boy?
The included photograph shows a Palestinian boy moments before he died after he and his people were deliberately targeted by the Netanyahu regime. I captured it from Facebook after assuring Facebook that I could handle the image having read through their warning about how distressing it might be for me. (Unfortunately, I did not bookmark the post, so I cannot link to the original.)
Australia: Palestinian Nurse Aladassi on 15th Day of Hunger Strike - Block the Dock
From Redacted News: "All Ukraine's YOUNG men are dead" NATO has killed an entire generation

NATO Summit, July 2023
Video: Palestine-born doctor speaks at Pro Palestine Rally Brisbane 19nov23
Palestine-born and trained doctor who, at 12 yrs old, was shot in the neck by a sniper on his way home from school, speaks of then and now at a pro-Palestinian rally in Brisbane on 19 November 2023. The rally was very large and a later march took up several blocks, where numerous groups of supporters lined the footpaths. People are aghast, shocked, disturbed, at the failure by world leaders to heed the suffering and extinction of so many people in Gaza, in full view, 24/7.
Avi Yemeni of Rebel News and Destiny Church members at Pro-Israel Rally, Brisbane
Avi Yemini from Rebel News spoke at a rally to support Israel against Palestine at King George Square in Brisbane today, 19 November 2023. He described how he usually stuck to reporting, but had not been able to resist this invitation to speak because of the loyal presence of Maori supporters from Brian Tamakis Destiny Church.
Protest: Australian Parliament 'discusses' Gaza, and the Facts
With the exception of some members of the cross-bench, mostly Greens, both Australia's houses of Parliament support Israel's war against more than 2 million Palestinians (who are also mostly Israeli citizens) crowded into the Gaza strip.
Will anyone signal, 'Stop!' - Poem by Palestinian on Gaza massacre
"The West Bank already started to be destroyed
Jenin streets and homes and another hospital besieged
Our fate will be like Gaza, the terrorist army warned
Beirut too soon and other cities will also be damned
for our "new Middle East" with Starbucks
Grow General Electric and all war stocks
The USA has got Israel's back and gives the weapons to kill
American Taxpayers foot the bill
Will anyone signal stop?" [More of this poem and links inside.]
David McBride Trial - Day Two
Another report on video from Consortium News. Nurumberg defense mentioned - of a soldier's duty not to follow illegal orders, even if given by a superior officer.
Six unique things about the Gaza genocide by Mazin Qumsiyeh
The genocide goes on: Several babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured. A friend I have in Gaza told me an American flag was seen on a tank and unusual soldiers not Israeli are seen (wonder if these are the US Delta forces that Biden was photographed shaking their hands in this country). Rotting dead human bodies are all over Gaza. Stray hungry dogs are eating some.
Staff, students, alumni stage sit-in for Palestine at UniMelb Parkville campus
On November 15th, 300 staff, students and alumni called on the University of Melbourne to take action against Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. They demonstrated their support for the people of Palestine by staging a sit-in at the University of Melbourne Parkville campus. In coordination with the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement, attendees called on the University of Melbourne to stop colluding in Israel’s war crimes and terminate its 13-million-dollar partnership with weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
David McBride Trial - Day One
'Incubator babies left to die' once war propaganda now true in Gaza - but Albanese still supports Israel's war on Gaza?
Lies last century to justify the Iraq war have become true in Gaza in 2023, yet the US and Australia fail to react. In 1990, US President George Bush promoted a total fabrication that Iraqis had thrown Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and had left them to die on the floor.
One of many submissions to Australian Goverment against draconian internet censorship bill
"Australians are not safe in a society where citizens take anything the government says as not being true. There is actually a need for the government at times to be able to put forward a message, and have people accept it. An authoritarian crackdown on speech is exactly the wrong thing to do when significant portions of society have extremely strained belief in the credibility of government after being locked down for two years and faced mandatory violations of their bodily integrity.
Why Israel Does NOT Want Hamas To Release Their Captives - Katie Halper and Ali Abunimar
Remarkable interview with US Nurse evacuated from Gaza - CNN
The deadly Israel-Palestine paradox
The modern history of Israel and Palestine has well-documented beginnings in the not so long ago. Of course, if you go back to the Ottoman Empire, the current responsibilities fade. And before then, biblical times. The greatest paradox is perhaps that, if people have the power to get something they really want, and can defend it, ultimately they own it, but they also own the consequences.
Battle against corporate colonialism in the Honduras
On 20 December 2022, US corporation Honduras Próspera Inc. announced a $10.7 billion international legal claim against the Honduran government. Próspera’s investors want to be compensated by the Honduran people for their democratic decision to overturn a 2013 law enabling the creation of special economic zones known as ‘ZEDEs’.
IPAN VOICE No 85, November, 2023: Gaza and what you can do? Peace activities and coming events
No 85 November, 2023
Please share VOICE with organisational members and on your social media platforms
In this Edition:
IPAN Actions for Peace
* IPAN Media Release "Stop the siege and stop the genocide in Gaza"
* Kathryn Kelly on Gaza on 8CCC radio
* Sending letter to your MP regarding Gaza
* IPAN e-petition to parliament calling for termination of the FPA
Frankston's battle continues. Rally Monday 6th November 12 noon outside WAVES
Frankston Beach Association: "The fight to save our coastal amenity from high rise buildings along Kananook Creek is not yet over despite the Minister overturning the decision to impose 3 storey mandatory height limits along the precinct.
We are asking that you join with STGW supporters in solidarity at
Noon on Monday 6 November 2023 outside Waves café/restaurant at Frankston Lifesaving Club, I Long Island Drive Frankston.
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