I’m old enough to have heard more than my share of towering bullshit, sanctimonious cant and raging hypocrisy, but never so much as the avalanche of ignorant bile spewed by the ‘pro-Palestine’ mob. From the ludicrously uninformed claim that Jews are ‘colonisers’ in their indigenous land, to the ridiculous ahistorical claim that ‘Palestinians’ are anything but Arab interlopers in the Jewish homeland.
But the festering, rotten, gargantuan cherry on the whole stinking cake of hypocrisy has to be the shrieking demands that Israel feed and supply the very enemy so fanatically dedicated to wiping Israel (and Jews, globally) from the face of the Earth.
Anthony Albanese has condemned Israel’s limitations on the supply of food and other critical aid to Gaza as an “outrage” and “completely unacceptable” as the humanitarian crisis gripping the besieged enclave threatens mass starvation […]
“People are starving,” he said. “The idea that a democratic state withholds supply is an outrage.
Is the man a complete moron? Or is he just so drunk on the Pallywankers’ hate that he actually believes this horseshit?
In case it escaped Albanese’s notice, Gaza attacked Israel without warning, massacred thousands of innocent civilians and took many more hostage. Both are blatant war crimes (Hamas is, never forget, the elected government of Gaza). Name one war in history – just one – where the attacked party was expected to supply food, fuel and energy to the enemy who attacked it.
Name one war in history – just one – where the attacked party was expected to supply food, fuel and energy to the enemy who attacked it.
In WWI, the Allies blockaded the Central Powers. Staples such as grain, potatoes, met and dairy quickly became scarce. There were food riots in Germany, Austria and Hungary. Germans were reduced to rations amounting to just 1,000 calories per day, below starvation level. In WWII, Germany likewise blockaded Britain. The US blockaded Japan.
In 1948, the Arab League imposed boycott and blockade on the fledgling Israeli state. Egypt blockaded and seized ships bound for Israel – including those carrying “foodstuffs and all other commodities”.
It’s called ‘war’, you morons.
Yet, Israel, alone of all nations in history, has actually supplied its enemies with what Israel’s enemies refuse to do for themselves.
Gaza is entirely dependent on free electricity from Israel. Because, in over two decades of Hamas rule, not one cent of the tens of billions of aid poured into Gaza went into building its own electricity infrastructure. Gaza not only refused to build its own water infrastructure, but its rulers cut up their own water pipes to make rockets.
And any food aid that goes in, ends up right in Hamas’ hands. As drone footage has shown, Hamas fighters freely wander around UN compounds, seizing aid vehicles at gunpoint. Any Gazans who try to help themselves to the aid intended for them are beaten and shot at.
Even earlier this month, Israel facilitated the entry of 25,000 aid trucks. That should have been supplies enough for five to seven months – but Hamas stole it. The elected rulers of Gaza then sell it back to Gazans, further financing Hamas’ war-making against Israel. ‘Aid’, then, is nothing more than supplying Hamas.
Something, apparently, our grotesquely anti-Israel foreign minister is only too keen to facilitate.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has joined 22 international counterparts to demand Israel allow the full resumption of aid in Gaza, warning that Palestinians there are starving, exhausted and being deprived of essential supplies.
Because Hamas stole it. Somehow, Wong can’t bring herself to acknowledge that basic fact.
Whose side is she on? Well, we already know the answer to that.
