Australia a dishonest broker in the affairs of the Palestinian people

Ten years ago, former US secretary of state John Kerry described the two-state solution as follows: on. He was a supporter of the idea, but that was his assessment after Operations Cast Lead and Pillar of Smoke, two of Israel’s three major aerial bombardments of Gaza in just six years. In the same year, Professor Ian Lustick, New York Times, described as an illusion. However, his corpse was resurrected once again by the ghosts of the empire.

If there is any doubt about how we should respond to Australia’s recognition of the state of Palestine, the prime minister’s Support for Trump in a few days unbelievable 20 point plan by own architect described as “one of the greatest” [sic] While “days in civilization” neglected to consult a single Palestinian in its design, it is a clear indication that Australia intends to stand firmly on the side of the genocidaires and the elusive leadership of President Trump.

Yesterday to Trump announced It was stated that Israel and Hamas reached an agreement at the first stage. “peace framework”. Paradoxically, the agreement both requires Hamas’ approval and, in doing so, eliminates Hamas’s political role; This raises questions about who the agreement was actually made with and with what future authority. This glaring contradiction has been little mentioned since Trump announced plans for the Gaza Riviera last year (complete with a gold-plated statue of himself, as reflected in this image). created by artificial intelligence maquettes that appear to envision a century-old injustice as a real estate dispute).

Confusion over how this agreement was made seems to have permeated circles of Palestinian people and their allies who actually care about the meaning of equal rights for all. Meanwhile, political elites pay tribute to Donald-Corleone-Trump and his mob tactics.

Once again there is a glaring lack of recognition of facts that could make a difference; so that Israel like that The history of what the two-state plan looks like, especially 1947 partition planliving breathing was breathed away by collapsing empires. Membership of the United Nations in 1947 was limited and explicitly imperial, and this is what supported its formation. last settler-colonial state will be created in the modern era. By doing so, they claimed to trade away the ancestral lands, livelihoods, and regional stability of the people who have lived in this region for thousands of years and make up the vast majority of the population (the Palestinian people), who own (by legally verifiable means, let alone moral rights) more than 93% of the land in question. categorically rejected what that infamous decision suggested.

Three weeks before the attack definitely nowIf it weren’t for the genocide that Israel inflicted on the Palestinian people in Gaza at the time, I spoke to a packed house in a cramped record store in Melbourne. The aim of the event was to raise public awareness about what was happening there and what people can do HereFor Palestine is an axiomatic example of how the world is an interconnected organism through economies, environment, politics and, above all, the contemporary power of the historical legacy of both genocide and empire.

In that speech, just ten days after the genocide, the New Zealand political party Te Pāti Māori in the name He instructed his government to expel the Israeli ambassador. The following week, Sydney-based law firm Birchgrove Legal It is reported that he is considering taking action He commented against the Australian government that Australia’s long-standing support for Israel had contributed to “an atmosphere of lawlessness in this conflict where there is an extreme imbalance of military and political power in favor of Israel”.

I invited the people gathered not to ask whether the Israeli ambassador to Aotearoa or Australia was likely to be deported, but to ask themselves, their MPs, anyone, why it was possible that they would be deported. wasn’t likely.

But two years later I think we should find it remarkable. This Israel is no closer to expelling its diplomats or imposing sanctions on a state that is committing genocide that is being broadcast live to the world by its Palestinian victims. Which Australia to have We managed to do it with incredible speed, Deport Iranian diplomatsHe makes evasive statements about the arms trade with Israel and sanction Senator Mehreen Faruqi demanded sanctions against Israel on the first day of the 48th parliament’s session^he Parliament of Australia. The government continues to threaten the employment opportunities of political satirists everywhere.

So when Albanese does his due two-state solution address Held at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York in late September, it was hardly a turning point; Rather, it was consistent with Australia’s stance over the past two years of genocide and 75 terrible years for the Palestinians; the evidence The influence of Australia’s then foreign minister, HV “Doc” Evatt, on the partition decision in 1947 shows that, since the founding of Israel, Australia has not been an honest broker in the affairs of the Palestinian people. The speech demonstrated how the dehumanization of the Palestinian people and the will of the hegemony continue to distort the issue of Israel’s genocide and the historical wrongs that Palestinians are still waiting to be acknowledged, corrected, and returned to.

Albanese began on a self-congratulatory note about his country’s role in dispossessing the Palestinian people, pointing to the difficult eight-decade cycle between “violence” and “terror” that has failed to connect the two. The first specific reference to violence was “the terrible events of October 7, 2023.” So, might the Palestinian wonder how the horrific Zionist terrorism that characterized the final years of the British mandate or the ongoing Palestinian Nakba affected this statement?

The first 12 lines of the speech, ostensibly aimed at recognizing a Palestinian state, were a clear foreshadowing that Australia’s recognition of Palestine does not care about the actual Palestinian people or their aspirations. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer refreshingly honest at this point, framing recognition as a punishment if Israel does not accept the ceasefire.

Leaving aside Palestinian history or political aspirations, Albanese’s speech continued with a statement emphasizing the value of October 7. innocent An Australian citizen killed at the Nova Festival illustrated this point, along with his order of nationality, first Israeli, then Palestinian; As if it wasn’t the Palestinians in Gaza who have been subjected to Israel’s genocide for two years. Don’t think that a conversation on this topic would be anything less than Albense laboriously negotiating to say exactly what he means.

Albanese said the Israeli government “must accept its share of responsibility.” At this point it was really confusing as I continued the chronicle:

Tens of thousands of civilians were killed.

Helpless people, including children, were denied vital aid.

Aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom, were killed while trying to provide humanitarian aid.

And journalists who tried to bring the truth to light were killed.

This comes alongside the continued illegal expansion of settlements in the West Bank and an increase in settler violence.

Threats to annex parts of Palestine and permanently displace the Palestinian people.

Were Holocaust victims guilty of their own genocide? Although Israel’s ongoing crimes were mentioned, that was the only mention of that party in the speech. However, Hamas performed well. Albanese blames Palestinian children for “teaching them to hate”, saying they are “teaching them to hate” – although we can’t help but hear an altered version of Padraic Fiacc’s poem “Soldiers” when you do this:

And men Hamas

and women Hamas

and children Hamas!

Who needs hasbara when you have Albanez?

What should be done to a settler? I cannot answer this question, but I am sure that a settler must give up all kinds of space. Space must be given up, not just physically but also intellectually and diplomatically. A prime minister who is not ashamed of the contradictions of talking about self-determination and then directing the people to the form of self-determination, who their leadership will be, what views they will have, is a person who tells us that neither he nor his nation understands what self-determination means. According to Albanese, some people are more sovereign than others. It also tells us, not for the first time, that Australia has a serious problem with racism.

As Kahlil Gibran wrote, “shame on the nation that declares the tyrant a hero.” Actually.