Labor, hypocrisy and appeasement of genocide

March 19, 2025

Why do we have to keep on beating this drum? Today, (18 March) the reports are in of Israel’s resumption of unrestrained blitzkrieg upon the Palestinian people. At least 200 have been blown to fragments.

This is now such commonplace news that it doesn’t even rank as headlines in the media. Just another article towards the front of the on-line opening page. Up there alongside a report of one (not recent) murder in Australia – a sad event certainly, but can we please have some sense of proportion?

Penny Wong urges “all parties’ to respect the ceasefire”. Only one party breached the ceasefire agreement – the genocidal ultra-Zionist Netanyahu/IDF duopoly.

Two hundred dead, innocent Palestinians does not bring forth a skerrick of empathy from Albanese, a one-time professed “friend” to Palestine. Such “friendship” one could hardly value much above the rabid declamations of Dutton – of whom we expect such vile opinion. Both readers have their noses well and truly adjacent to the posterior of the Zionist Lobby.

Once we had a statesman and warrior for truth and justice. His name was Gough Whitlam and he led the ALP.

Quite evidently, we shall not see his like again.