Israel-Gaza

• 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.

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.

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.