On 26th January, after 109 or 110 days of slaughter in Gaza, reported on any device not tuned in to the MSM, or OUR ABC, the highest court in the world, the ICJ, brought down its response from the commital hearing, for the charge of genocide brought against the state of Israel, by the Republic of South Africa.
The ICJ, with its American president supported by 14 of the 16 other judges from around the world, found that South Africa's claim that there is a likelihood of a genocide occuring in Gaza, due to the actions of the state of Israel, is correct, and Israel will have to defend that charge at later hearings.
The ICJ ordered that Israel stop killing and injuring the citizens of Gaza, and provide necessary humanitarian aid to the citizens of Gaza.
The major provider of all forms of aid in Gaza is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the near east (UNRWA). A body that has been a thorn in the side of Israel since its establishment in 1949. Without UNRWA, Gaza would have become a beachside extension of the Israeli Zionist project long ago.
To coincide with the ICJ ruling that Israel has a case to answer, the USA announced that it has halted the funding of UNRWA, due to confessions regarding their involvement in the Hamas attack on 7th October, obtained from 12 UNRWA employees.
Penny Wong obeyed the order from Washington immediately, and decided that based on information obtained by Israeli Security Forces, (Israel is the only nation in the world that has legalised torture) from 12 out of the 13,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza, Australia should cease funding the sole body capable of getting aid to the population in Gaza.
Since October 8th, at least 150 UN employees, and many of their family members, have been murdered by Israeli forces, more than in any other conflict during the UNs 78 year history.
It's as if Israeli forces were stalking UN providers of humanitarian aid with drones, and assinating them with sniper fire, or drone attacks, as they have the more than 100 journalists killed while bringing the ACTUAL NEWS to the world that cares to look.
Israeli leaders condemned the highest court in the world and called the judges Anti-Semitic, Israeli representatives at the UN frequently call United Nations representatives from the Secretary General down, Anti-Semitic, as they claim are Human Rights Watch, WHO, International Red Cross, and any other international humanitarian organisation that ever dares to call out the state of Israel, for its treatment of inhabitants of the region who don't happen to be Jewish and Israeli.
Israel received unqualified international support for its total destruction of the society, built by the people of Gaza, inside what renowned Israeli sociologist, Baruch Kimmerling, described as "the world's largest concentration camp, ever", in 2003, before the blockade. Support, in the form of military aid and diplomatic cover, was based on the reported beheading of 40 babies, the baking of a baby in an oven, the murder of over 1400 civilians, later downgraded to around 1100, many of whom were actually military operatives, and many who were actually killed by the IDF, as reported in Jewish news outlets.
The beheading of babies was a lie, Ha'aretz, the Israeli Newspaper of renown, has listed Every Israeli identified death, since October 7th. Two babies were killed on the night. No bodies, whether babies or others were beheaded.
Civilians were definitely killed and captured by Hamas on October 7th, that is an atrocity, but it is not the case mounted by Israeli leaders to justify the campaign against the civilian population of Gaza.
The genocide convention states clearly that the crime of genocide can happen NEVER AGAIN.
NOTHING can justify genocide.
NEVER AGAIN MEANS NOW.
On page 28 of his book, "Gaza an inquest into its martyrdom", Norman Finkelstein relates the voting history of the USA at the United Nations General Assembly on resolutions passed every year since 1997. Every year the USA and a bunch of other nations voted against the UNGA resolution on "The Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine"
In 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2002, Australia voted for that motion. Since 1997, Australia voted against that motion 10 times, and abstained 10 times.
All the while, Australian politicians were telling Australian citizens that the answer to the question of Israel/Palestine, is the two state solution, while instructing our diplomats to vote as directed by our leaders in the USA and ignoring actual events in the occupied Palestinian territories where 800,000 illegal settlers took up residence on Palestinian property, and the citizens of Gaza were subjected to concentration camp conditions where life was frequently disrupted when the IDF did what they called "mowing the lawn in Gaza", killing, injuring and maiming many and demolishing homes and public infrastructure.
In 2018/2019 when the ciitizens of Gaza began the peaceful demonstrations called the Long March of Return, Israeli snipers took up position on mounds outside the concentration camp fence and shot unarmed civilians hundreds of metres away. An Israeli veteran soldiers publication set up following the second Intifada, known as "Breaking the Silence" has one Israeli sniper bragging about taking out 42 knees in a day. During the Long March of Return, Israeli snipers kileed over 230 unarmed demonstrators and injured over 16,000.
In the current campaign in Gaza, what is portrayed as the most moral army in the world captures itself on Tik Tok and publishes its "morality" for all to see. An English fellow, who went to Israel, probably on annual leave from his job, to serve with the IDF in Gaza, filmed himself rummaging through the knickers drawer of a woman who'd been forced to flee by the most moral army in the world, as he laughed and made lude comments about the morality of the owner of these garments.
In other Tik Tok self promotions, Israeli soldiers film themselves demolishing entire residential blocks with carefully planted explosives. All in self-defence.
Human Rights Watch published satellite photography of agricultural land north of Beit Hanoun taken on 15th October and 24th November showing the complete demolishing of the farming landscape by Israeli bulldozers. All in self-defence.
Videos are available of the explosive demolition of the Courthouse in Gaza, The Al-Israa University, all in good fun and self-defence, and of two women and a child of about 8, walking down a road carrying a white flag, when one of the women is shot by a sniper. The child sees his mother suddenly dead beside him, and doesn't know whether to help her or run for his life.
Another video shows a group of unarmed fellows going to rescue their aged relative, they are interviewed by a team from Al Jazeera, the journalist and camerman walk away and the spokesman for the group is shot dead by a sniper.
Every day in Gaza 10 children are having either one, or both their legs amputated, many without anaesthetic, women are undergoing caesearean birth without anaesthetic.
That is the world we all know about, and Penny Wong, Anthony Albanese and Co think its okay to ensure that the genocide continues by cutting funding to UNRWA and denying the starving population the food, water, and humanitarian aid the ICJ demanded they receive, because Israel suddenly found 12 Hamas resistance fighters "may" have been employed by UNRWA.
When is the establishment in this nation EVER going to pick a side, that in the fullness of time is adjudged morally correct?
NOT IN MY NAME!!