AUSTRALIAN MP SLAMS GOVERNMENT AFTER REJECTING PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE!
May 31, 2024Australian MP and member of the Greens Party, Max Chandler-Mather, delivered a POWERFUL speech against the ruling party in Australia due to their rejection of Palestinian statehood in a vote submitted recently.
“What is the red line for labour when it comes to Israel’s genocide in Gaza? How many kids does Israel have to burn alive before Labour will literally take any action against Israel? What will it take to stop giving public money to Israeli weapons companies?”
“Take some responsbility! You are the government. You signed $917 million weapons contract with Elbit Weapons in February this year… You could recognise the state of Palestine but you sit here and pretend like you have no power!”
Brilliant! The Greens Party, a progressive and leftist group, put forward a bill to recognise Palestinian statehood which was VOTED DOWN 80-5!
Greens leader Adam Bandt said a vote for Palestinian statehood would have been a “concrete step towards peace” after other countries have also recently recognised Palestine.
“This is not just a symbolic move, it is a critical step towards peace and towards ending the slaughter that we are seeing with the invasion of Gaza right now,” he told parliament.
Shame on Australia! Shame!!
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English Script:
Max Chandler: At the very least this government should recognize the state of Palestine. And really the question is, what is the red line for labor when it comes to Israel’s genocide in Gaza? How many kids does Israel have to burn alive before labor will literally take any action against Israel? What will it take to stop giving public money to Israeli weapons companies? What will it take to stop sending arms and ammunition to Israel? Here’s just to get the human consequences of this action. Here’s just had one moment from the Rafah massacre, as quoted in CNN, and I quote: A video filmed to CNN in the hospital courtyard shows several body bags laid on the ground with dozens of anguished people, including men, women and children, crowded around their late loved ones. People are seen crouching over the body bags with some caressing their loved ones lifeless bodies. At least one baby’s head can be seen sticking out of a bag as the woman beside it shouts, “My whole family has perished”. Lifting the baby’s boy’s body to the camera, Mahomed Abu Taha cries out, “this is who they are targeting. This is their objective. This is the generation they’re looking for. This is the safe Rafah they talk about”. Another eyewitness says a five-day-old baby named Ghaith Abu Raya, was killed in the airstrike. The footage shows him opening a small body bag to reveal the infant’s head, saying his body has been dismembered. “We are all alone. Nobody cares about us”, he cries. He’s seen opening another body bag next to Gaith’s, sobbing and saying, “My beloved Rami”, who he says is Gaith’s 33 year old father..
This is just one moment from the 35,000 people that have been murdered in Palestine, Palestinians by the Israeli government. But what’s most remarkable about the reactions in this House from members either side is the remarkable lack of responsibility. We sat here and we heard responses to the member for Melbourne Speech, the leader of the Australian Greens, oh no, the Government doesn’t back the invasion of Gaza. No, no. Oh, we don’t do any of that. Well take some responsibility. You are the government. You signed $917 million weapons contract with Elbit Systems in February this year. The CEO of Elbit Systems, the blacklisted Israeli weapons company, has said recently, we have seen increased interest in our weapons recently because of their “in operational use” in Gaza as in killing Palestinians. You in February this year allowed for $1.5 million of arms and ammunition to be sent to Israel. And they said, oh no, that didn’t happen.
That’s on the government’s own data, the government’s own data. There are other countries that can expel ambassadors when countries engage in genocide, but no, nothing here. Those are the actions that this government could take. You could recognize the state of Palestine and you sit here and pretend like you have no power. Well, let’s be real about this, every time Israel massacres civilians, every time they burn children alive, they look around the world and they wait for the consequences. And none come from governments like Australia, and that’s why they know they can get away with it. As the member for Melbourne said, history will remember people in this place and what they did. They’ll ask, What did you do when there was a massacre and a genocide going on in Gaza, when mothers and fathers held lifeless bodies of their children in their hands would starve to death because they had run out, run out of energy to breathe as a result of Israel’s engineered famine. They’ll ask, What did you do? What did you do in this place?
