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- Comment on (Opinion) A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business | Julianne Schultz 1 week ago:
Probably took high social standing to invited to dive into it.
- Comment on (Opinion) A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business | Julianne Schultz 1 week ago:
The Eulogy Song is definitely still relevant…
Diana died with Arab semen on her dress?
- Comment on (Opinion) A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business | Julianne Schultz 1 week ago:
People are not “placed” on the floor that is what you do with bags, boxes and rubbish. But that was the word used by the Northern Territory police to describe the sequence of events to the media.
Of all the things that went wrong the journalist is highlighting the grammar?
Tragically, painfully, I think it says a lot.
On the contrary.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
Do you have an example of such violence in Gaza pre Oct 7 and post settlement withdrawal in 2005?
The blockading is because in that time Hamas and PIJ were sending missiles and suicide bombers into Israel.
There was retaliation each time. Disproportionate because it was meant as a deterrent (obviously it failed to deter though).
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
On the contrary, Ireland has been trying to get the official definition of genocide changed so that it can match what is happening in Gaza but cannot get enough countries on board.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
Furiously? I am not the one making ad hominem attacks. I am not putting words in your mouth. I declared no such thing. I bring up uncomfortable facts.
There is no such thing as a mainstream political bloc. 5 coalitions were tried and quickly failed resulting in renewed elections before Netanyahu won. There are Left leaning Israeli parties (who value liberalism, unlike Hamas) but I am pretty sure they don’t want to vacate the Levant either which is what these discussions always seem to come down to.
Jews aint leaving. Arabs aint leaving. Get real. I don’t know how they can make it work. Neither of us has a solution.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
Do you really need to resort to name calling and bullying? There are reasonable arguments to be had.
You call it genocide but I do not accept your redefinition of the word. Do you call Russia’s war on Ukraine genocide? Russia targets purely civilian towns with drones and missiles (unlike Gaza situation) but it isn’t genocide. I can acknowledge that despite being pro-Ukraine.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
And you want what? Israel to roll over and allow continuous repeats of Oct 7 (which Hamas vowed to do, on the record)?
Here is a more mature response you could have given me: how would Israel know if all of Hamas surrendered?
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
UNWRA was compromised so the imperial party angle has been abandoned.
It requires military to keep Hamas from stealing the aid. It is not realistic to expect an outside neutral military to take on this task. UN could not keep Hezbollah in check in Lebanon.
It seems Hamas are annoyed not just that they are being denied supplies for themselves and to sell to civilians but also because they need civilians to be starving to win the PR battle. Full stomachs will divert attention from the war so should we starve the people? Which is it? Allowing Hamas to hijack it isn’t going to happen so forget what the UN says (which is very vague).
Regardless of what we argue here, the distribution will continue. It is just two days into it so let’s see if it going well. Of course for some ProPals it will not go well unless Jews vacate the Levant (an unrealistic fantasy regardless of whether one believes they should be there or not).
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
They aren’t very efficient with “genocide” are they? Bad shots you reckon?
It is a terrible war without resorting to hyperbole. I understand it is for PR but surely we can be better than that on Lemmy?
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
Likud certainly don’t want it unfortunately. Horrible situation.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
Luckily the distribution seems to be going well though. That is a good thing, yes?
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
You are right but it wasn’t in the Crikey article of OP so go maybe easy on the commenter.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
It is a good point however Likud took 5 dud attempted coalitions before coming back in power. Bibi was about to go on trial for embezzlement. They were not that popular.
Unfortunately while Likud are still not popular, political pundits say the Left would be very unlikely to form a coalition government in the next election.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
Admittedly Crikey accidentally made it sound worse by taking it out of context but they may not have had access to the video (which has since been posted in this thread).
Nevertheless, a one-state solution cannot work because Hamas are not seeking what this guest is talking about.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri… [in an] interview, which aired on a Libyan television channel… referred with indifference to the number of Palestinians who have been killed in the Gaza war, calling this “the price we have to pay,” and remarked that the women of Gaza will compensate for the loss by “producing” more babies than those who have been killed.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
ProPals throw “whataboutism” when someone tries to discuss nuance as often as Zionists throw “anti-Semitism” when they are criticised.
The two points remain unaddressed by you:
Hamas hijack aid and are complaining now that IDF wants yo control the distribution to prevent this.
Hamas could surrender for a swift end to the war.
everything Hamas does is also lsrael’s fault. lsrael created Hamas. They funded Hamas deliberately as a way to destabilise the Palestinians.
Indeed. Bibi favoured Hamas over Fatah and for cynical reasons as you point out. You are not talking to a one-eyed football mentality person. Hamas (Being right wing fascists like Likud) should have known the consequences of Oct 7 well in advance but they naively thought they could rally Arab neighbours to battle like in the past.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
That meme ignores Hamas hijacking aid.
Hamas could just surrender.
- Comment on Opinion: Australians remain deeply sceptical about the value of private healthcare – it’s time for radical reform 1 week ago:
I can’t believe that it took me until now to realise that the Medicare levy is just an insurance premium except with a government insurer.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
From what I can tell, the average ABC worker is on the right side of this.
The average worker is Left wing and therefore agrees with your and Hamas’ position. I am left but often disagree with them on the Gaza issues. In fact their dodgy reporting on Al Ahli hospital early lost them their credibility.
I have not seen any news organisation consistently report “fairly”. The only examplenof even handedness was a pair of entries from a blogger a couple.of months in (probably still valid - let me know if it has dated)…
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
And since they went through the bother of “accidentally” uploading it, why did they go through the extra bother to remove it?
They play both sides. Am sure they have their own internal battles of which side to support since they do not seem consistent to me.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
The Post is literally summarised here with:
During the interview, Nasser Mashni made a pointed remark that it was time ‘for Palestine to be free, from the river to the sea’
That could well be why the interview was pulled. One could argue whether that slogan is sinister or not. If sinister they could have aired it without the slogan (but some would argue against platforming someone with that view).
These are the actual issues it seems, certainly not whataboutism.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 1 week ago:
So he is calling for the elimination of Israel? Or is he calling for a one-nation state where a Palestinian majority will supposedly conduct a democracy without misogyny, homophobia continuing the Hamas agenda to expel all Jews?
Am well aware there are a growing number of Jews with an agenda to expel all Arabs from Gaza. I wouldn’t want ABC propagating sloganeering from them either.
- Comment on Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on? 2 weeks ago:
And yet the flu vaccine is not mandatory for nursing home staff. I think it used to be pre-Covid but the cookers are winning.
An annual influenza vaccine, prior to the influenza season, is strongly recommended for all staff of residential care facilities, and mandatory for NSW Health staff in category A positions.
- Comment on Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on? 2 weeks ago:
Hard to know if the flu you caught was less severe because of the jab. Also, I heard one should get a second shot mid winter because the formula changes.
- Comment on Sound it out: Victorian children improve reading ‘leaps and bounds’ thanks to phonics 3 weeks ago:
It was some New Age NZ woman who destroyed reading education in the Anglosphere despite her anti-phonics method having been disproven in a study at the time.
- Comment on Sound it out: Victorian children improve reading ‘leaps and bounds’ thanks to phonics 3 weeks ago:
Surprisingly, NSW outsmarted Victoria on this…
In 2015, a report from the New South Wales Department of Education,[4] concluded that Reading Recovery was largely ineffective, and should not be used for most children.[5] As a result, in 2016, Reading Recovery lost its “mandated status” as part of the curriculum in NSW’s more than 900 public schools, although individual schools may still opt to use it.[6] A further consequence of this shift in policy is that, in 2017, the NSW Department of Education initiated a hiring program to recruit dozens of new literacy and numeracy experts to support teachers in “evidence-based professional learning”, according to NSW Minister for Education, Rob Stokes.
- Comment on Abortion pills to be easier to access after Greens bill passes in NSW despite opposition from Tony Abbott 3 weeks ago:
Why is the headline mentioning Abbott? How is he relevant?
It should say with “Opposition leader support”. Am impressed with his stance.
- Comment on Should You Cover Your Laptop Camera When It’s Not in Use? 4 weeks ago:
Article suggests workaround.
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 5 weeks ago:
Even Grok thinks reality has a left wing bias gizmodo.com/elon-musks-grok-ai-has-a-problem-its-…