'ICC warrants against Israel and Hamas will offer the West a choice: Either torpedo the international criminal justice project they have advanced since 1945 for good or hypocritically demand impunity for Israeli war crimes.'

commondreams.org/news/icc-netan…

What will happen if the ICC charges Netanyahu with war crimes?

'The Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help him'

#gaza
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A silent coup in plain sight: AUKUS and the universities. #auspol #aukus
johnmenadue.com/a-silent-coup-…

US Reportedly Working to Stop ICC From Issuing Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu.

'There is absolutely no reason for Biden to be involved in this,' said one analyst. 'But once again, Biden steps in to protect Netanyahu'
#auspol
commondreams.org/news/netanyahu…

'We are about to be faced with up to almost 1,000 IDF Australian soldiers returning from the Gaza genocide.'
Will they be investigated for involvement in potential war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and torture? #auspol
amust.com.au/2024/04/austra…

Students at the Australian National University in Canberra have established a pro-Palestine encampment on campus today.

This follows separate encampments at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne.

#auspol
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'Such diplomatic efforts as Australia has made have no effect. Short of failing to acknowledge Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, Australia continues to fall short of its obligations under the Genocide Convention.'

#auspol
johnmenadue.com/australia-is-a…

NBC News found Palestinians were killed in seven deadly airstrikes in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones.
#gaza #auspol
nbcnews.com/news/world/pal…

Israel Seems to Be the Only Country Looking for a Wider Middle East War.
The prime objective of Arab governments during the whole Israeli-Iranian crisis has been to avoid escalation into a regional war.
commondreams.org/opinion/wider-…

'We must recapture Australian sovereignty and sense of strategic independence. We must never again allow the circumstances to exist in which one man has the capacity to commit Australia to war.'

- Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, 2014.

#auspol warpowersreform.org.au

Portland State University Pauses Ties With Boeing as Campus Protests Spread. Amnesty International has documented several cases in which Israeli forces used Boeing-made weaponry to commit atrocities in Gaza.

#auspol #gaza
commondreams.org/news/boeing-po…

Dozens of students from the University of Sydney and the University of Technology are camping out for a fourth night protesting ties with weapons manufacturers and organisations arming Israel’s six-month long siege of Gaza.
#auspol UTS Journalism
centralnews.com.au/2024/04/26/gaz…

UN Warns of 'Catastrophic' Imminent Escalation in Sudan.

About 800,000 people in North Darfur state, are in 'extreme and immediate danger,'

#Sudan
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Six months into the war on Gaza, over 10,000 women have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned.
More than one million Palestinian women and girls in Gaza have almost no access to food or safe water.
#auspol
unwomen.org/en/news-storie…

Bernie Sanders to Netanyahu: 'It Is Not Antisemitic to Hold You Accountable'

'Do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government' #auspol
commondreams.org/news/sanders-n…

Australia exported $1.5 million worth of weapons to Israel in February alone.
UN agencies and experts have called on countries, to stop exporting military equipment to Israel for months. These calls are being ignored by the Albanese Government. #auspol
greens.org.au/news/media-rel…

An internal report that Defence tried to keep secret highlights the high risks involved in growing a civilian workforce to maintain naval nuclear reactors for AUKUS submarines. #auspol #aukus

michaelwest.com.au/nuclear-submar…

The resolution specifically would have reaffirmed the Outer Space Treaty obligations and called on all member nations not to develop nuclear weapons that could be used in space.

thehill.com/policy/defense…

The Netanyahu government is driving hard for an expanded conflict in the Middle East. Will Australia join yet another catastrophic war overseas, and will the Australian people get any say in it? #auspol
warpowersreform.org.au/will-australia…

One could travel Australia and remain completely ignorant of the Frontier Wars, the Australian Wars. That should not be. Official recognition at our major memorials and shrines would go some way towards a remedy.
#auspol #ANZAC
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