So we're gonna stop sending them parts for their jets, right? Right??
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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While Australia is in that supply chain, "stopping it" wouldn't do anything. For a start, the manufacturer/seller of the parts is Lockheed Martin. The government can sanction a country and tell LM they can't send their parts from Australia to Israel.
But all that will happen from this is LM will send the parts to their USA operations and from there, they'll magically be reassigned to Israel. Or worse: They move production of those parts to another nation and Australians lose their jobs. Either way, the parts will still get to Israel. The government holds no actual cards in this equation.
While Australia is in that supply chain, "stopping it" wouldn't do anything.
It would stop Australian workers from being implicated in the genocide of Palestinians.
But all that will happen from this is LM will send the parts to their USA operations and from there, they'll magically be reassigned to Israel. Or worse: They move production of those parts to another nation and Australians lose their jobs.
Who cares. Albo goes on national TV and says in order to protect Australian workers (and businesses?) from being involved or implicated in genocide these parts will no longer be manufactured here. All Australian workers (and businesses) affected will be be supported long term by .
Either way, the parts will still get to Israel. The government holds no actual cards in this equation.
I don't think you understand how important even the smallest wins on the board are to a people under the threat of extermination.
ENDING the Slaughter of Children literally DYING In the Streets from Starvation? I didn't know Australia was ANTI SEMETIC!
-The ADL!
It's a pretty damn milquetoast statement. No mention of the ongoing genocide Israel is carrying out. No mention of the war crimes being committed in service of that genocide. No mention of the apartheid conditions Israel imposes on Palestinian people which were the initial cause of the war.
They can't even name the state of Palestine properly.
I guess it's nice that we've signed on to it. But it means nothing if it isn't backed up by real action.
I hope these 28 countries can remain linked on this and continue pursuing a constant drumbeat of pressure against the Israelis to stop murdering the Palestinian children, mothers and fathers.
This single statement, while meaningful, is passing and will need reinforcement (in further statements and actions), against such a revanchivist and bigoted State like Israel to elicit meaningful change.
Israel says the statement is “disconnected from reality” and is urging countries to instead place pressure on Hamas.
I mean yeah, they're right.
Any countries signing up to send their soldiers into the jihadi hellhole that is gaza to get the hostages back? no? just strongly written letters? ok
The hostages cruelly held captive by Hamas since 7 October 2023 continue to suffer terribly. We condemn their continued detention and call for their immediate and unconditional release. A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families.
That'll do it, Hamas for sure will listen to this now
Maybe they should send the same thing to Russia as well, surely this will work
If this war were about the hostages, said hostages would've been freed ages ago.