Margaret Reynolds call on the Australian Parliament

Here is an article Why has the Australian Parliament failed to debate the tragedy of Gaza? – Pearls and Irritations (johnmenadue.com) by former ALP senator for Queensland from 1983 till 1999, Margaret Reynolds published in Pearls and Irritations.

In the article, Margaret Reynolds makes a call to the Parliament, on the surface, a quite reasonable statement:”Will Australia’s financial commitment for long term humanitarian assistance be fully detailed to both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Will Australia’s diplomatic efforts include a cessation of all military exports to Israel and a demand that Israel contribute major resources to rebuild Gaza and accept the two-state solution? (My emphasis).

Since 1948, zionist Israel has never accepted the two-state solution. Zionists have built a greater Israel, including the occupied territories, the Golan Heights and Gaza. Australian governments have never asked the Palestinians what they want. Australian parliaments have voted against a Palestinian state, including recently, in a procedural motion put by the Greens. So readers, please bear this in mind as you read the senator’s article,which fails to mention the genocide currently under way in Gaza preferring instead to call it a tragedy. Why not call out the Australian Parliament for its complicity in the genocide?

Extract

Around the globe, many people and especially the young, see through the hypocrisy of elected lawmakers who are quick to condemn some human rights violations while ignoring those nations that see themselves as above international law.

Over these months the Australian Parliament has remained largely silent, unable to allocate any time to consider the disturbing events affecting many Australians with family and friends in the disaster zone. There has been no condolence motion for the loss of 37,000 Palestinian lives and no statement of condemnation for the wanton destruction of their communities. There has been no detailed discussion about Australian defence policy and how the nation should respond to allegations of complicity in genocide.

Full article by Margaret Reynolds:

Why has the Australian Parliament failed to debate the tragedy of Gaza? – Pearls and Irritations (johnmenadue.com)

2 thoughts on “Margaret Reynolds call on the Australian Parliament”

  2. In astrophysics a black hole emerges when a massive star dies resulting in gravity so intense that nothing can escape, not even light. This provides an apt analogy for genocide in human relations.

    Genocide is a moral black hole whose evil is so intense that the normal “taken-for-granted” rules of social intercourse cannot function. Genocide inverts the moral order so that humans become transmogrified into mere animals and as such are considered suitable material for vivisection e.g. the Japanese in Manchugo (Manchuria), or for experimentation e.g. like the Nazi Mengele or Israel, which tests new weapons on the Palestinians in Gaza (Antony Loewenstein, Israel’s heritage minister Amihai Eliyahu said dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza was one option to end the war and that anyone carrying a Palestinian flag “shouldn’t continue to live on the face of the earth”!

    Former minister Moshe Feiglin quoted Hitler and then said, “We will not be able to live in this land if one Islamo-Nazi is left in Gaza”. In Dante’s Divine Comedy the Inferno has Satan at the centre of Hell below the ninth circle where it is freezing and dark, it is furthest away from god’s light. Satan’s wings fan the icy air.

    Here is the ultimate black hole and here resides Israel/Satan plotting and scheming murder and mayhem on a massive scale and endangering us all!

    —
    Gareth W R Smith
    Palestine Liberation Centre
    14 Cumbebin Park
    Byron Bay
    NSW 2481
    Australia
    Tel: (61)2-56058404
    MOB: 0491107279

    “Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire

    George Orwell, ‘Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’

    “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” Goya

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