One day, everyone will have always been against Israel’s genocide in Gaza – Omar El Akkad.
سيأتي يوم يكون فيه الجميع ضد الإبادة الجماعية التي ترتكبها إسرائيل في غزة
Palestinian’s plea at the gates of parliament
On a rainy night, a small crowd of about 40 people assembled outside Queensland parliament. The live cross for Channel 7 evening news was being broadcast from the grounds of parliament house.
No mention in the news today of the 15 Palestinian paramedics executed by the Israeli army and buried in a shallow mass grave with their ambulance.
I was told that the parliament was debating the youth crime bill, an excuse for locking up even more aboriginal kids.
Four Palestinians were lining up to speak. Another stood by with his drum. The President of Falesteen and a former citizen of Gaza, Noble Elaklouk, was called to the small stage, labelled Free Palestine, by Omar Ashour. Noble was speaking after Lamisse Hamouda and Jamal Nabulsi. Lamisse asked the crowd to support Remah Naji to become the first Palestinian woman to be elected to the Australian parliament. Jamal tied in what Omar had already said about the assassination of the paramedics. He spoke about the attacks on the health system in Gaza where Israel’s F-35s have bombed all the hospitals in the strip.
Previously Jamal had said how artists can resist the genocide. “If artists use their practice and platform to draw attention to these historic crimes, and express their solidarity with the people enduring these atrocities, they deserve be celebrated for their courage, alongside their musical talent.” – Jamal Nabulsi, Research Fellow – Voice and Belonging, Griffith Centre for Social Cultural Research.
Complicity
The bomb part are supplied by Ferra Engineering 344 New Clelveland Road, Tingalpa in Brisbane.
The video below shows what Noble had to say, challenging the Queensland government to come out against the genocide in his home city of Gaza. He made a simple request that the Australian government recognise Palestine as a state.
The barbarians are inside the gates
Australia does not recognise the State of Palestine but does support a two-state solution. Noble made an uncontroversial request that the Australian government cut ties with Israel and impose sanctions so that the genocide can not continue. Why has the Queensland parliament failed to even debate the genocide in Gaza?
“A majority of Australians want a ceasefire in Gaza,” says former Senator for Queensland, Margaret Reynolds. This is not a tragedy. It is a war crime, an obscene slaughter of innocent people.
How many times have we stood at the gates of the parliament making the same plea?
On 10 March 2024, the leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, stood at the gates of Queensland Parliament and called for an immediate and lasting ceasefire.
Meanwhile, the Queensland government licenses and supports the production of weapons by Ferra Engineering that are used in the genocide in Gaza. No matter who wins government in the May 10 Federal election, the parliament as a whole is complicit in the genocide.
The parliament was silent when former senator Margaret Reynolds, Adam Bandt (Melbourne), Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith), and Senator Fatima Payman pleaded for an end to its support for Israel.
The parliament forgot the people who begged for a ceasefire to end the genocide.
We will not forget their silence.
Ian Curr
5 March 2025
The morning after millions of viewers tuned into SBS’s broadcast of the 2025 Tour of Flanders, a few people watched the video contradicting Israel’s lies like the one before that, and so on. SBS put online of an Israeli attack on a Red Crescent ambulance convoy in Southern Gaza of the Israeli brutal attack slaughter of unarmed Palestinian paramedics.
This pattern of distracted outrage from the genocide is repeated throughout the East and through the West. News media gain new audiences in disgust, but no one revokes their Australian citizenship, or their US citizenship or British or French or 🇧🇪 or European or Indian … no one walks out of their life saying
But they came, the bastards, to eradicate, with bullets, to tell very simply that we didn’t exist.
They started with the militants, then with the peaceful marchers, then, with the journalists, and now the paramedics, when all had been shot, they threw, one on top of the other, the children, the old and the newly-weds, in a mass grave, all that to tell the world of the half-dead watching the tour, the football, the cricket, the baseball that Palestine didn’t exist, that it has never existed, and therefore that they were right… to exterminate all the Palestinians who held on to their belief in this beautiful land, their family, their village, the olive trees, their culture and language that has existed for millennia. Yet we are the people. We won’t be silent. Stop the bombing now, now, now! – Ian Curr, 7 April 2025.
See full story @ https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2025/04/07/no-one-came/
But they came, the bastards, to eradicate, with bombs, to tell very simply that we didn’t exist.
They started with the olive trees, then with the orchards, then, with the buildings, and when all had disappeared, they threw, one on top of the other, the children, the old and the newly-weds, in a mass grave, all that to tell the world of the half-dead that we didn’t exist, that we have never existed, and therefore that they were right… to exterminate us all. – ‘Jenin’ by Etel Adnan (Beirut, Lebanon, 1925 -)translated from the French.