Australians are protesting:
More than 100,000 pro-Palestine protesters marched on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Local protest organisers estimate 25,000 people gathered in Melbourne, marching through the CBD before their demonstration concluded at the King Street Bridge, which was blocked by a heavy police presence.
While I do think Palestinians should have their own country, Hamas and its supporters are no friend to people like me. They were no friend of innocent people in Israel. Hamas took hostages and actively or by neglect, killed many. But the disgraceful and horrible actions of Hamas has paled into insignificance, compared to the response of Israel.
Yep, if the media shows starving and dying children, you have lost the public opinion war.
I am not pro Palestine or pro Israel. I just don't want to see people starving to death, or dying because of a lack of medical treatment. I don't want to see doctors, nurses and patients bombed and killed.
I really don't think Israel can take a high moral stance as the situation presents itself
Two Sundays ago I was sipping coffee in Swanston Street, Melbourne. It was the usual Sunday pro Palestine march passing by, that disrupts our trams. I hate it. The disruptions make visiting the city difficult.
But what I did notice among the procession of protesters was quite a number of older grey haired white women. When they start marching, and the Doctors Wives start saying things about starving children to their husbands, Houston and Jerusalem, you have a problem.
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Hamas was voted in to run Palestine and that's the overriding problem.
ReplyDeleteAs I remember JB, but was there a viable alternative? It is hardly a democracy as we know it.
DeleteI did not know Hamas was voted in to run Palestine. I thought they were just another random terrorist group. So the real culprits here are those who voted for them?
DeleteRiver, I am not sure the alternative was any better. Hamas could be described as a terrorist government, but Israel could also be called that too.
DeleteI liken it to Hamas throwing a rock and Israel throwing a bomb ... at children.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good description Bob.
DeleteI am against Netanyahu AND Hamas. I am pro Israel and pro Palestine. A powder key was put in place after the settlement of Israel after WW2. I won't do a diatribe here but N is desperately trying to stay out of jail on all his criminal charges and knew well in advance what Hamas had been planning as he was vowing to "annihilate Gaza". That was his excuse. We can't protest enough at this genocide.
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WWW, you think as many of us do.
DeleteIt tends to confuse me, all the political stuff I mean, but I'm glad that bloggers occasionally make comments on current issues like this because it forces me to think about others and how fortunate I am. Sorry if that sounds lame in any way.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
Alison, it is so full of sorrow, and cannot be ignored. Thank you.
DeleteWhat Hamas did last year to Israelis, was awful---cutting heads off babies, raping to death women. What Israel is doing in return, even worse. It is hard to see the starving children. It is hard to believe what we see, what people do to one another, in this day and age. I would think the human race would progress from this blatant savagry by now.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, your last sentence is so salient.
DeleteI am solidly a believer in Israel and its right to exist, but at the same time, the Israeli government's treatment of the Palestinians has been off-the-charts cruel. Yes, the Oct. 7 attacks were appalling, and yes, Hamas brought retribution upon themselves and the people they supposedly represent -- but Israel will seemingly settle for nothing less than total annihilation. That is a bridge too far. Two-state solution!
ReplyDeleteSteve, it does seem like matter are moving on a two state solution. Will it mean the end of the warring? I would hope so, but...
DeleteI am pro "live in peace or die in pieces" which was a common saying a few decades ago, I think when the Vietnam war was on.
ReplyDeleteSuch battles are often about land and borders, and this one is not an exception. The area needs to be two separate countries with a firm border.
DeleteLet me change my pro to "live and let live", everybody get along, love thy neighbour etc
ReplyDeleteIt's heartbreaking to see the destruction all around and the poor children starving to death. How will that country ever be rebuilt? I'm at the point when I just want to avoid watching the news - so much misery, natural disasters, wars everywhere!!
ReplyDeleteWho knows Sami. I expect the world will put money into rebuilding.
DeleteI didnt like how the march was called "pro-Palestine"
ReplyDeleteWhat it was, really, was anti starving children
Precisely Kylie. Some would be Palestinian supporters but I think most were protesting against the war and what is so tragically happening.
DeleteAgree with your point of view, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteThank you Cloudia. Things are not improving.
DeleteI agree with WWW!
ReplyDeleteJackie, I hope most caring people would.
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