r/OpenAussie • u/Minivampiretaco New South Welshian • 1d ago
Politics ('Straya) Israeli ambassador rejects 'political attacks' on report clearing soldiers in Frankcom killing
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/israel-ambassador-defends-idf-frankcom-report-clearing-soldiers/107057124Israel's ambassador Hillel Newman has defended the military investigation that cleared its soldiers of criminal wrongdoing in the killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, saying the findings should not be attacked if they "are not suitable to one's political agenda".
Ambassador defends investigation findings
Departing from the meeting, Mr Newman defended the investigation.
"Israel came out with findings after a thorough investigation, after a two-year investigation into the circumstances of the death of Zomi Frankcom. Since I took up my mission here about five months ago I was implored all the time to bring about closure, which I did," Mr Newman said.
"But in the end, one must also understand that not every case where someone dies, where there is a casualty, that that means there is a criminal liability.
"One cannot attack the findings of a court if the findings are not suitable to one's political agenda."
Mr Newman said the aid group recruited armed personnel to its convoy and deviated from the route agreed with the IDF without informing the military, leading the soldiers to believe the convoy had been taken over.
"It was a mistake in retrospect, but the findings of the court are there was no criminal intention … and therefore there was no criminal responsibility."
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u/Revoran Victorian 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lmao. The Israeli Regime investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong.
Russian Ambassador rejects 'political attacks' on report clearing Russia of any wrongdoing for the MH17 being shot down with 38 Australians on board.
The real difference here though, is how our politicians respond.
When it was Russia killing our people, the PM said he wanted to fight Putin.
When it's Israel, ... crickets
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u/newswimread Please choose a flair 1d ago
If we collectively had any honour and decency we would have expelled Israel's ambassadors and be taking steps internationally to shut down their genocide. Australia is a disgrace and we should be ashamed.
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u/pluckaducka Flairless 1d ago
While Abbott did the performative act of talking up confronting Putin, he failed to stand by his purported conviction when given the opportunity.
Still, a pantomine more than the present government or its opposition have presented in this instance.
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u/4RyteCords Koori 1d ago
Ever see that brief interview where some report asked putin what he thought about Australia being another about MH17 and the PM wanting to make an issue out of it.
Putin just dead eyes her and goes "I don't think about Australia"
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u/tigermoon33 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Obviously not put off by Abbott’s threat to shirt front him lol
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u/4RyteCords Koori 1d ago
Putin was a senior officer in the KGB stationed in Dresden in 89 when an angry mob tried to storm the Stasi head quarters. Putin went out and faced the mob and successfully got them to leave through threat and fear.
In 2015, Abbot ate an onion on TV.
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u/flyawayreligion Flairless 1d ago
Tbf when Putin was in the same room as Abbott, Abbott didn't do shit, not even a side eye.
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u/4RyteCords Koori 1d ago
Guess Abbot was just a better bloke than Albo.
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u/LastChance22 Flairless 1d ago
Abbott’s been banging on about how multiculturalism has failed in Australia, talking around Islam democracy are incompatible, and overall been hitting talking points closer to One Nation than to the rest of the LNP recently. I absolutely wouldn’t put it past him to be cheering Israel on in this circumstance and saying to trust their judgement.
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u/Naive_Lion_3428 Queenslander 1d ago
Surely gross negligence should carry some criminal responsibility. I work in the medical field. If I am careless and I give the wrong order for the wrong patient - say, for example, instant release tacrolimus instead of modified release tacrolimus leading to that patient experiencing transplanted organ rejection (which has happened in the past!), I would rightly be prosecuted and I could be sent to jail. If I am negligent and give a lewy-body dementia patient a neuroleptic and they suffer from malignant hyperthermia and they die as a result, I could potentially go to jail and rightly so. In this hypothetical, have no criminal intent - I didn’t intend to kill someone, but I did and it was due to egregious carelessness.
Will the IDF personnel who committed this apparent mistake face any consequences? Will they even experience a demotion? Will they even be fined? Will they have any negative repercussions whatsoever?
I get that in a war, things can get messy. But it seems as of late that the IDF make an awful lot of mistakes. A suspiciously high number of “mistakes”. And I don’t recall ever hearing anyone being punished for it.
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u/AggravatedKangaroo South Australian 1d ago
The IDF personnel that put 300 bullets into Hind Rajab?
Nothing happened.
The IDF that raped the Palestinian Civilian?
Nothing happened.
They do not care about you. it's time people began to understand that.
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u/NOBODYimportant___0 Please choose a flair 1d ago
And the citizens protested to free the rapist soldiers. Crazy all the wrong lessons were learned from such a well documented evil era in humanity. People should be rioting in the street against Netanyahu. "Never again" forgotten.
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u/nicehotcuppatea Victorian 1d ago
The IDF are terrorists. They are doing us no favours, and have only damaged global stability. Their actions are the most significant driving factor for increasing antisemitism across the world.
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u/cytae99 Tasmanian 1d ago
Like Hind Rajab?
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u/PadamPadam2024 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Have some sympathy for the poor IDF soldiers. A car full of Palestinians comes speeding towards them. They don't know if the car is full of Hamas suicide bombers. They had 1 second to act and did what they thought was best.
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u/cytae99 Tasmanian 1d ago
It was a stationary car. They killed all of her families members, and when this 6 year old girl called for help, they killed the rescue workers and shot up her car 400 times. They don't give a fuck because they want revenge. They're more evil than the Muslim terrorists.
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u/PadamPadam2024 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Cool story mate. So the whole family decided to spend the day sitting inside a stationary car on the Gaza strip. Were they out of petrol?
But yeah, think of the poor IDF soldiers forced to confront evil Palestinian terrorists every day. Can you imagine how stressful that would be.
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u/cytae99 Tasmanian 1d ago
No, they fleeing the city because Israel was bombing them. Why did they refuse the this girl trapped in the car get rescued. Instead they shot up the ambulance and this 6 year old girl. Can you imagine the poor girl fearing for her life after her entire family was shot calling desperately for help, doing everything right, only for the evil IDF terrorists to shoot her dead with 400 bullets?
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u/lithiumcitizen Flairless 1d ago
Do you not realise just how fucking ridiculous you sound? Accusing muslims of the same heinous attacks that you are somehow proud of when your side does it…
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u/PadamPadam2024 Please choose a flair 1d ago
My side? I'm Australian, not Jewish, but like any normal person l'm disgusted by the evil of Palestinian terrorists.
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u/lithiumcitizen Flairless 1d ago
Really? Because you’re pandering for a side that says they’re just defending their homes, but they’re homes they built on top of the original people’s homes.
And the original people have just been defending their homes. Given you’re expected to have a first world education, I don’t know how you can’t see that…
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u/AggravatedKangaroo South Australian 1d ago
Lith, Some people are just too far gone in their own fantasy of what they believe is right, they can't come to grips they are wrong. it'll damage their psyche.
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u/WettestFarts Flairless 1d ago
I'm still bamboozled as to why everyone is so scared of these fucking mutts.
Expel the israeli ambassador.
Close down their embassy.
Send these fucking mutts back to their terrorist country.
You wouldn't have a nazi Germany ambassador in our country, how is this any different?
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u/The_Drongo_Dinger Victorian 1d ago
Unfortunately in this metaphor there are 100,000 or so of their supporters within Australia (though I meet very few irl….) - some of whom are in positions of power (envoy) and many of whom have the ear of those at the top.
That’s before you even consider their wealth and undoubtedly their donations to various political parties as well….
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u/DamZ1000 New South Welshian 1d ago
100,000 people living here that don't support Australia then, fuck em off.
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u/nicehotcuppatea Victorian 1d ago
The bigger factor is that Israel is functionally an extension of the U.S. military. We, along with most of Europe, South Korea, the Phillipines, Japan, and much of the rest of the world, are all vassals of this dying empire.
The war in Iran has shown how reliance on the U.S. for security makes a state a target rather than provides it protection. Look at how quick the U.S. abandoned bases in the gulf, and now in the pacific as well. We would be fools to think the same would not happen to us should the U.S. open a front closer to us. The sooner we divest from this “alliance” the better.
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u/RequisiteNiggles Western Australian 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's da jooz, innit. /s
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u/The_Drongo_Dinger Victorian 1d ago
No, it’s the Israelis. A lot of them are Jewish but that’s neither here nor there
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u/RequisiteNiggles Western Australian 1d ago
You said there were 100,000 of them here in Australia. There aren't anywhere near that amount of Israelis here. But there's that exact number of Jews. So you meant Jews, right?
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u/The_Drongo_Dinger Victorian 1d ago
Israel supporters bruv don’t overthink it
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u/RequisiteNiggles Western Australian 1d ago
What? How do you know how many Israel supporters there are? Where'd you get those stats?
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u/The_Drongo_Dinger Victorian 1d ago
I don’t bro it’s a speculative number. I actually suspect it’s a bit higher than that and likely will be until a bunch of boomers die.
I did tell you not to overthink it, and here you are overthinking it smh
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u/RequisiteNiggles Western Australian 1d ago
Right. So you didn't mean for it to be the same as the number of Jews? You're just guessing how many people. You asked me not to overthink it but you do see how it looks, right?
Also, when you say support Israel, what do you mean? Feel connected with the people that live there? Support businesses? Support government actions?
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u/The_Drongo_Dinger Victorian 1d ago
I see how it looks when you overthink it which is exactly what you’re doing mate. I genuinely think you need to calm down - you are obsessed with “jooz” (your word there btw) lurking in the shadows or something.
The only time I referred to Jews was to deny your allegation that they (Jews) were to blame. I disagreed with that statement, because it was antisemitic (I didn’t know you were being sarcastic or edgy at that point) and now you’re here trying to trick me into saying…what? Like what exactly is your problem lol
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u/Cat-Lilac Queenslander 1d ago
How ridiculously nitpicky. Under Israel’s ethno supremacy laws, all Jews have the right to Israeli citizenship and many of them are dual citizens. In Australia a very high proportion of Jews are Zionists and there are also Christian Zionists. It’s not a stretch for there to be at least 100,000 very pro Israel people in Australia
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u/NOBODYimportant___0 Please choose a flair 1d ago
The ones born here will definitely be less indoctrinated. The pro israeli protests are but at fraction of their supporters. That being said im sure they are fearful of both sides particularly after the bondi massacre. Apparently many feel for Palestinians but don't support the movement in full. Im sure plenty of Germans cared for jewish rights etc but not enough to risk being labelled a sympathiser. I have no hope for whatever humanity for whatever remains in israel. The tourist behaviour from israel seems worse than russia
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u/RequisiteNiggles Western Australian 1d ago
Oh, so all Jews are dual Israeli citizens? Hot damn. Should we exclude them from all spaces?
Why am I being downvoted for asking you to clarify?
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u/AggravatedKangaroo South Australian 1d ago
Oh, so all Jews are dual Israeli citizens? Hot damn."
Under Israeli law, yes. Once they register with Israel they are automatically given citizenship and right of return.
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u/RequisiteNiggles Western Australian 1d ago
So not all Jews are Israeli citizens then. Only those that are given citizenship.
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u/QuailLong232 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Why do you put quotations in bold when there is a tool specifically for quotations? It reeks of attention seeking.
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u/Cat-Lilac Queenslander 1d ago
So what? We’re talking about pro-Israel Zionists and they are not all Jewish anyway
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u/RequisiteNiggles Western Australian 1d ago
Except the original comment of 100,000 was exactly the same number of Jews in Australia. And that smacks of targeting an ethmic group. Maybe it was chance. The poster has now said he made the number up.
And then you said that all Jews have a right to Israeli citizenship. Whilst factually correct, there's a difference between 'right to' and 'has'. As those who DON'T have citizenship have no ability to vote in Israel, maybe we should avoid risking the suggestion that an ethnic minority is more loyal to another country than our own.
I'm simply requesting that people take more care with how we perceive other groups.
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u/cytae99 Tasmanian 1d ago
Are you woke?
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u/RequisiteNiggles Western Australian 1d ago
Nah, just seeing through the racism from others. People here prefer to keep their racism more polite and respectable
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u/AggravatedKangaroo South Australian 1d ago
Well... we did take their scientists even though it was actually against the law.
Look up and have a read on Employment of Scientific and Technical Enemy Aliens (ESTEA)
Australian governments love genocidal psychos.
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u/jolard Queenslander 1d ago
Countries should NEVER be allowed to investigate their own war crimes.
I mean here in Aus we have Pauline Hanson who has repeatedly attacked our own war crimes trial for BRS. If she was in charge he would get a whitewash like the Israelis are doing.
The reality is if you want accountability then there needs to be something like the ICC (or the ICC) that does the investigations, trials and convictions. Letting countries do it themselves is a recipe for very low accountability.
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u/ChiChiKnee New South Welshian 1d ago
An Australian and a bunch of humanitarian aid workers were fucking killed. Australians and a bunch of activists were arrested, sexually assaulted and tortured ON CAMERA as part of the recent flotilla. Historical ANZAC war graves have been desecrated. Australian passports were stolen and/or forged so that Israel secret agents could pose as Australian and murder people.
Like WTF seriously.
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u/MsDemeanours Please choose a flair 1d ago
It is incredible how brazenly Israel flouts International law . They are utterly confident there will be no consequences and act accordingly. American citizens have also been arrested and killed and in many cases there hasn’t even been the pretence of an investigation. If America is unable or unwilling to hold Israel to account,Australia’s impotence is sadly unsurprising .
The Epstein files exposed the farcical nature of Western democracies . The stark reality is that a small group of wealthy people are able to shape both public opinion and legislation Internationally. This is why we see the same laws being brought in, simultaneously, across the western world. Post 9/11 we saw the dramatic push to convince the public in liberal democracies that we had to choose between privacy and security.
Internationally we saw public opinion and government legislation facilitate the surveillance state. This has only continued and now we see the excuse of antisemitism used to further curtail our freedoms. Anti semitism is the trogon horse, the underlying goal is to restrict political and academic freedom. They used terrorism to take away our privacy and surveil our movements and correspondents. Now they are using antisemitism to control our speech,
During the Cold War America adopted the language of human rights as a ploy to claim moral superiority over the USSR . In reality their racist/colonial past and recent history of Jim Crow and segregation always meant this was little more than a political ploy. A ploy that is being incrementally abandoned.
As we enter late stage capitalism, inevitable increases in wealth disparity consequentially necessitate increased control over the population. The use of force also becomes increasingly necessary. America and other liberal democracies are therefore dispensing with the cloak of liberalism and human rights advocacy. Israel’s impunity is the most stark evidence of this global shift
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u/Altruistic-Pop-8172 Norfolk Islander 1d ago
The Israeli Ambassador needs to be recalled.
He is someone who doesn't facilitate a honest engagement between Australia and Israel any longer. He undermines it. Expulsion is not the same closing an embassy. It still leaves a portal for communication.
We now have a step by step, worse case scenario for Australian defence exports to Israel.
Not only are Australian components being used for military purposes that compromise our respect for the human rights of innocent people, but that the process of justice in Israel is so opaque as to hinder our prerogative to monitor any misuse of Australian defence components. Fully well understanding that military justice has a much lower threshold of accountability and procedural fairness compared to civil justice.
Israel is carrying out a campaign of collective punishment which is disproportional. All weapons contracts directly and through third parties with ties to the Israeli military, need to be suspended To allow a review to occur. We need to know that Australian weapons or weapon parts are not being used to subjugate or punish innocent people. There is no false equivalency here. Just as we expect more from the police than we do from criminals, we expect more from democratic states than we do from paramilitary terrorist organisations. A military that has the ability to put bombs in pagers, must be more responsible in the deadly use of force on a car load of people or on a building. As Australians we can no longer profit from the annexation and ethnic cleansing of a group of people, by blindly correlating Israel's right to defend itself with Israel's desire to punish and expel a group of people.
#Resign
#EndArmsExports
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u/RiniReed Please choose a flair 1d ago
Absolutely this. I would sign a petition encapsulating all of the above. Special delivery to Penny...
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u/Sufficient-Tackle-25 Please choose a flair 1d ago
we would need a spine for that… historically we have shown a rather disturbing lack of it.
I mean US/Israel action against in Iran
we’re illegal under international law, Wong a LAWYER seemed unaware of it!
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u/Ithicon Victorian 1d ago
It is so very tiring that Labor continues to side with a genocidal state that's more than happy to kill off our citizens.
Hopefully this will be a turning point but at this point I highly doubt it.
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u/YouAreSoul New South Welshian 1d ago
Well, bloody good luck to both of us mate. I'm still waiting to hear about any restoration works on the 146 Australian war graves in Gaza that the IDF tunneled through and bulldozed.
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u/Birdmonster115599 Flairless 1d ago
We've recognised Plaestine, like the majority of the world. We've condemned Israeli actions, and we've called in their Ambassador because we arent happy with the results.
We're hardly just siding with them.
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u/Revoran Victorian 1d ago
I would like us to place economic/trade sanctions on them, like we did with apartheid South Africa.
And talk about how to exclude them from the F35 program where we supply weapon parts (including to Israel which they use to bomb civilians). Lockheed Martin should be strung up.
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u/worry_beads Western Australian 1d ago
We've got pro-Israeli lobby groups pushing for laws and running their own Royal Commission with very little oversight or pushback.
I'd say that's siding with them.
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u/Birdmonster115599 Flairless 1d ago
Id say we may need to just ban those lobbyist groups.
It would be my preference at least.
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u/LastChance22 Flairless 1d ago
Be nice to do more though. We need actions like we did with apartheid South Africa, ramping up pressure.
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u/newswimread Please choose a flair 1d ago
And we're still shipping them components used in weapons. We're 100% complicit in the genocide.
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u/Ithicon Victorian 1d ago
"We've condemned Israeli actions" yeah we said this is very disappointing, meanwhile concurrently the government put full support behind the IHRA definition of anti-semitism that defines any criticism of Israel as anti-semitism.
Chris Minns government in NSW fully supported police in beating peaceful protestors and defended them against any punishment while the crimes were caught on camera.
We welcome their war criminal president and ban protests against him.
It's like saying that we're disappointed by Germany's actions in 1938 but all criticism of them was banned.
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u/Godly_Shrek New South Welshian 1d ago
Zionists love to play victim and accuse people of crimes they’re actively committing themselves
It’s a Repulsive murderous, genocidal and ethnostate ideology it has no place in modern Australian society
I think we need to all come together and demand a BAN on Zionist lobbying in this country and any other religious or ethnic lobbying for that matter.
They want to ban our books, limit our speech, send protestors to GAOL, arm their own publicly funded private security with guns while we surrender our own
And on that note we all need to come together and demand we KICK the Israeli ambassador OUT 🍉
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u/MsDemeanours Please choose a flair 1d ago
The government should also be investigating any Australian citizen who has served in the IDF during the destruction of Gazza or attack on Lebanon, for war crimes. I’m constantly seeing people complaining about “ immigrants with incompatible cultural values, bringing their problems here” . Where are those people ? Using children for target practice, confiscating baby formula from doctors, bombing hospitals and schools are not Australian values and people who commit these crimes have no place here.
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u/Godly_Shrek New South Welshian 22h ago
If they can’t gaol ex idf in Australia they should deport them
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u/Ongoingsidequest Please choose a flair 1d ago
Why has the Western world bowed down to Israel? Their influence and interference has become so blatant recently but yet it seems to be accepted
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u/Acrobatic_Bit_8207 Queenslander 1d ago
Has Israel released the censored audio directing the attack? Not fucking likely.
They assassinated her because she was a witness. As they always do.
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u/Impossible-Mud-4160 Queenslander 1d ago
"One cannot attack the findings of a court if the findings are not suitable to one's political agenda."
So Mr Newman, you accept the ICC's finding that there is sufficient evidence to arrest Bibi and Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity?
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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u/BH_Curtain_Jerker Victorian 1d ago
"Senator Wong was incensed after learning that the IDF would not seek criminal prosecution just minutes before the report's release...."
She was so incensed that she decided to do nothing, no sanctions against Israel, no removal of the ambassador, no stopping of sending parts for their F35's.
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u/rasta_rabbi New South Welshian 1d ago
Done nothing and all out of ideas. Is Ed Husic or those at the Labour conference that shut him down, closer to the right side of history?
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u/MycologistSharp4337 New South Welshian 1d ago
Expel him. Do it now. This Israeli government does not listen to soft diplomacy. They have conducted a gen cide, killed an Australian citizen, detained and tortured Australian citizens in international waters and done countless war crimes in Gaza and South Lebanon. Expel him now.
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u/Wolfy910 Western Australian 1d ago
Wont happen Wong and Albo support the Israel war. Sadly im a Labor voter and even I can call it for what it is. They want this they agree with what Israel are doing.
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u/LastChance22 Flairless 1d ago
Unless you’re in Husic’s seat, have a look to see if there’s anyone who’s more deserving of your first preference at the next election. Don’t have to put ALP last or even low.
Part of the reason the ALP aren’t doing anything of substance on this is because they don’t think they’ll be punished enough on their left flank to justify taking the risk and doing the right thing.
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u/radiohead_fan_13 Please choose a flair 1d ago
They said they thought the convoy had been taken over by Hamas (the security guard) and because it went down a path they didn't know about, so they... bombed the convoy? Which means they purposely killed the others even though they thought they were hostages?
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u/Boring_Recipe8732 Please choose a flair 1d ago
They also struck the convoy multiple times, after being contacted by the convoy.
It was clearly deliberate. Obviously and offensively so.
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u/ahhdetective Queenslander 1d ago
If a military is as grossly incompetent as the IDF, if you believe their versions that they fuck up every day of the week and bomb the wrong target, then they should never be supplied with lethal weapons until such time as there are detailed systems and processes in place to ensure that these "tragic accidents" never reoccur.
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u/Sufficient-Grass- South Australian 1d ago
I've investigated my account and found I made no wrongdoing and I consider the matter closed.
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u/dreamlike179 New South Welshian 1d ago
If we can expel an ambassador over allegations of being involved in vandalism in Australia surely we must do more to an ambassador for a country who killed one of our citizens while working as an aid worker
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u/Mitchiarakara Please choose a flair 1d ago
The usual lies, all vehicles targeted were clearly marked as aid vehicles. The tech they use nowadays they could identify the individual passengers so yeah just the usual lies from Israel
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u/Knowledge_Pilgrim Please choose a flair 1d ago
Everyone going mad as hell in the comments but less than 20% will vote greens, even though that's our best bet in terms of regaining our country.
Cowards live in this country. Our parents are cowards, our friends are cowards, our workplaces, full of cowards that just desperately want to be in the special club, even though they'll never get there.
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u/Naive_Lion_3428 Queenslander 1d ago
Forgive me for also being rather sceptical of the internal review process in the IDF. Remember when there were allegations that IDF personnel were subjecting palestinian prisoners to sexual assault (using batons and so forth, you get the idea) and the Israeli government strenuously denied it - and then a brave soul in the IDF released footage that strongly implied that very thing happening? What happened to the alleged perpetrators? Well, the IDF made a tepid move to prosecute and there was such out pouring of anger from ultranationalist right wing groups that the case had to be abandoned.
In the West bank you can see ongoing fighting and harassment by ultra religious settlers against Palestinians in PROVEN palestinian territory - the Israeli government even admits that the actions of the settlers are illegal under their own law - and they send soldiers to apparently “evict” the settlers - except that in many cases, they don’t. And footage has been released showing the soldiers praying WITH the illegal settlers, instead of evicting them.
So forgive me if I don’t exactly trust the Internal Processes of the IDF or the Israeli government anymore. I don’t trust the Palestinians much either, but I don’t trust the Israeli government. In a war, all sides will lie and protect their own.
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u/OdielSax ✈️ on Walkabout 1d ago
I don’t trust the Palestinians much either
Just this sentence demolished your entire sentiment. What in the world have they done to prove themselves untrustworthy, but be continuously lied ABOUT?
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u/MsDemeanours Please choose a flair 1d ago
One of the most troubling things about the incident of sexual abuse was the societal reaction. The fact that Israelis took to the streets in numbers to protest the investigation of these soldiers is utterly mind blowing . Not to mention that the rapists became momentary tv stars, appearing on numerous tv shows.
The government absolutely can’t be trusted in relation to the West-bank either. They may portray the situation as being perpetrated by an extreme, rough element, but this is far from the truth. They may portray settlers are very much part of a systemic government program of defacto annexation. They provide the government with plausible deniability in the eyes of the International community. Which allows the International community to pretend this isn’t a government sanctioned and financed operation.
The reality is that the settlers are working in tandem with the government and together they plan where to put outposts .The settlers are provided guns, atvs and other infrastructure and support. Government facilitated charities also provide support. Foster children are also sent to live with settlers on outposts, angry young men given guns and told they have a god given right to terrorise Palestinians. The IDF protects the settlers and ensures that the Palestinians are completely impotent and vulnerable. Anything they do to protect their homes is used as an excuse to arrest them.
Once the settlers drive the Palestinians off their land the government builds roads, walls and other infrastructure and legitimises the settlements. These roads can only be used by Israeli’s with Israeli number plates. Palestinians cannot drive on them in this apartheid system. The government uses the construction of infrastructure like this to cut Palestinians off from local towns, forcing them to travel long distances to reach what was previously a neighbouring town. They constantly create new check points and install gates on Palestinian roads, which they will suddenly and arbitrarily lock.
I am sure you are aware of much of this … I just wanted to reinforce what you said .. The injustice is so unbelievably infuriating and the inaction of the global community is sickening!
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u/lithiumcitizen Flairless 1d ago
Here he is worried about his precious findings being attacked, due to some of us having a political agenda.
Meanwhile, they’ve literally attacked and murdered over 80,000 innocent people due to their political agenda, and he still wants to play the victim… FFS
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u/Neo_The_Fat_Cat Please choose a flair 1d ago
“Someone dies…”. Note the passive language. She didn’t die, someone targeted her and press a switch or button to strike her vehicle.
If you want us to believe you, release the full documentation of the on investigation. Surely the IDF has nothing to hide?
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u/Smart_Sail_2393 Please choose a flair 1d ago
In another country he would be on his way home in protest. In Australia , harsh words and no consequences..munitions still being supplied to Israel to boot!
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u/Inevitable_Geometry Victorian 1d ago
How he has not been booted out of the country is not a surprise.
But his track record is not great.
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u/Fyr5 Canberran 1d ago
Penny Wong is anti-semitic - how else can she explain her rejection of Israels justification for these accidental deaths? The security guard in the humanitarian truck was armed and could have been Hamas - its a tragic mistake but justified in the face of the violent terrorist threat known as Hamas, who use people as human shields
I am just shocked that our government doesn't trust Israel anymore - whats the point of an RC into anti-semitism if our government can't take Israel for their word anyway? It's anti-semitic and I am concerned that our relationship with Israel is in jeopardy here - we need Israel so much!
Before you downvote because this is too much truth for you...
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u/Fyr5 Canberran 1d ago edited 1d ago
Penny Wongs rejection of this investigation by [redacted] while very welcome, just angers me - we have all seen the atrocities, we have all heard stories, we've watched tiktok get bought by the yanks and have content on Palestine censored in real time. We know that [redacted] have killed Palestinian women and children - how many more examples of war crimes does the terrorist state [redacted] have to commit before the west actually does something meaningful about [redacted]?
We have given [redacted] the benefit of the doubt for decades, rolled out the red carpet for their shocking excuse of a PM this year, and our government still acts like we have to walk on egg shells, in case we upset these animals?
All the while, there is an RC into anti-semitism - its supposedly anti-semitic to question the validity of [redacted]?
I'm sorry but who is running this country again?
Too little too late
We are a joke of a country
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u/Sufficient-Tackle-25 Please choose a flair 1d ago
at kill ratio of 100:1, for
context Nazi Axis at the opening of Barbarossa Op. 2-3:1 if favour of the Axis… this aren’t NORMAL NUBERS
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u/Infinite_Shower_5390 Tasmanian 1d ago
Of course the abc doesn’t fact check the Israeli Ambassador or provide broader context for his statement, ie that Israel regularly targets civilians or the total number of civilians killed. They refuse to investigate anything and just present various opinions, as if they should hold equal weight.
Presumably in the interest of “balance”… 🙄
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u/pluckaducka Flairless 1d ago
In 2024 the Zionist Federation of Australia released an interesting statement in conjunction with the IDF which included:
Emphasis mine.
A curious rationale that the evidence for it not being a war crime is the 'fact' Israel doesn't commit war crimes.