Our summer series continues until our regular schedule commences. This week, Eddy Jokovich and David Lewis review the war against Palestine and the events in Gaza, which began in October and continued throughout November, December, and the new year. It appears unlikely to end anytime soon.
Despite global opinions, only the US and Israel can decide to end these acts of war crimes and ethnic cleansing – as early as tomorrow, if they wished. However, numerous agendas are at play here.
This international event encompasses everything – the international arms trade, geopolitics, history, right-wing politics, corruption in Israel from a corrupt Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas’s role in Palestine, the influence of the mainstream media, the attacks on journalists, the Israel and Zionist lobby groups in Australia, local politics – and the death of over 24,000 Palestinian civilians and 1,200 Israeli civilians. But why is this number so disproportionate? No one ever seems to be so concerned about answering this question, but this is not new: this war did not commence on October 7, 2023; it has been ongoing since at least 1946.
This war needs to end immediately. The Australian government, like most of the Western world, lacks courage and decency in even voting on a ceasefire. Australia cowardly decided to abstain, and this conflict will likely continue throughout 2024. The weekly protests by many concerned individuals worldwide will persist because they have had enough of governments sitting on the fence and allowing the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israel Defense Forces.
Why so many protests? Because, as the former South African President Nelson Mandela said: “Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”.