Conditional recognition of Palestine mere words

August 6, 2025

Reports of 60,000 Gaza violent deaths ignore (a) those blown to bits, (b) those buried under rubble, and (c) the hundreds of thousands dying from imposed deprivation and disease but uncounted because barely surviving, ill, exhausted and traumatised relatives did not risk being killed or injured and carry the dead bodies tens of kilometres in the heat to physically register their deaths with authorities.

However, expert epidemiologists published in the leading medical journal The Lancet expertly assessed 64,260 violent deaths after nine months, and by 25 April 2025 about 136,000 violent deaths, this indicative of 544,000 deaths from deprivation (expertly and ”conservatively” assuming four non-violent deaths per violent death), and 680,000 total deaths, this including 380,000 infants under five, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men.

Scared by the electoral consequences of images of skeletal children, the Australian Labor Government is adumbrating possible conditional recognition of Palestine, mere words that won’t stop the starving, killing and war criminal occupation. The Labor Government, at the very least, must demand of genocidal apartheid Israel: stop starving, traumatising and killing Australians and their thousands of Gaza relatives or face dire diplomatic and financial retribution.