The Jews have suffered through the ages
You'd think they'd understand
You can't treat others badly
Or take their homes and land

One day these actions will call forth
A human need to fight
To seek one's independence
From the enemy in sight

Seeking now to retaliate
Will only add to the confused state
Peace will forever disappear
Making the future for all unclear.

Hey ttbn,
"This sheila is also in charge of counter terrorism. Can you believe it!"

With the state of things in this country sliding downhill over the last few years I'm really not sure I should answer that...

Might be time to go and vote, try to avoid all the rubbish tomorrow.
And may my many-years-past part-indigenous grandmother forgive me.

It's all very well for the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, James Paterson, to 'warn' that Australians who support Hamas terrorism face jail.

Neither his Coalition nor Labor would have the knackers to lock anyone up. They might lose the Muslim vote. (There's the lunacy of multiculturalism again, and why it was forced on us - politicians have no decency or loyalty when it comes to getting votes; even from dangerous lunatics completely inappropriate to Western society).

Anti-Semitism is growing again, including in Australia. The influx of Muslims into the country has politicians, particularly those of the Left, pandering for their votes.

The media is no friend of Jews, to put it mildly.

Australian Jews must be very worried. And decent Australians are disgusted.

Hamas, it is said, believes the only solution for the Palestinian problem is Jihad, and that any international interference is futile.

According to Prof. David Flint, a senior Hamas official, Fathi Hammad, has tweeted: “People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives. With your hand, cut their artery from here. A knife costs five shekels. Buy a knife, sharpen it, put it here and just cut off (their heads).”

And, we have people on this site trying to relativise Hamas with Israel.

What a dreadful situation this is.

I can't watch the news any more. It is frightening.
With the end nowhere in sight. And the cost in human lives
growing.

Extremism on both sides amidst escalating violence is
rendering the prospect of a sustainable solution even more
remote.

"The violence is fuelled and exacerbated by a growing sense
of despair about the future," a Senior UN official told the
Security Council today. He observed that the lack of progress
towards a political horizon has left a dangerous volatile
vacuum filled by extremists on both sides.

He went out to point that Palestinian and Israeli fatalities
in 2023 have already surpassed 2022's annual figure and that
settlement expansion "continuous unabated."

Further the Palestinian Authority's fragile fiscal situation
and the funding shortages faced by key UN agencies threaten to
worsen the plight of the most vulnerable Palestinians.

"While we must urgently focus on addressing the most critical
issues and on de-escalating the situation on the ground we
cannot ignore the need to restore a political horizon," he
stressed.

Lets hope that someone heard and action will be taken.
Because the current situation is awful - with no end in sight.

Hi Foxy,

All water and electricity has been cut off to Gaza. Israel is continuing with its indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza, whilst Hamas is firing rockets at civilian targets in Israel. Total madness as innocent civilians, many women and children, are being killed on both sides.

“Deliberate killings of civilians, hostage-taking, and collective punishment are heinous crimes that have no justification,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement, making reference to both the actions of Hamas and the Israeli government. “The unlawful attacks and systematic repression that have mired the region for decades will continue, so long as human rights and accountability are disregarded.”

Israel has massed an army of 360,000 on the boarder with Gaza, ready to "move in" and decimate the Palestinian population, carrying out summery executions of the civilian population at will. Palestinians that are not murdered with the gun, many will die from disease and starvation over the coming months.

Until Hamas , if it survives, decides to disobey the Koran and accept
that land once occupied or conquered by Moslems does not have to
remain Islamic forever.
The land in dispute was conquered by Arab moslems in the 8th century.
The Jews have lived there for about 3000 years so think they have some
right to be there.
BTW, many Moslems think they the right to take over Spain.
They also have the right to take over Sicily and indeed Rome itself
which they briefly occupied around AD420.
So there is the problem, they beleive Allah gives them perpetual
ownership of any land they conquer.
You have to convince them that Allah got it wrong !