Australians commenting on the Israel-Palestine situation is a waste of time until they can find a solution to the situation here ! Do-gooderism has brought many civilisations to their knees.
The sad fact being that the do-gooders are parasites dictating to the host !

Fester,

People use many excuses for their behaviour.
Be it the right to defend themselves, the right
to bear arms, for patriotism, or as you pointed out
shielding themselves in the authority of others -
that they were fonly following orders.

Then there are those who feel they are justified
by their God.

We're all defined by what we do. By our actions.

Something that may be useful to remember when we post
on public forums.

I just watched an unbelievably idiotic SkyNews whatever they are called trying to get Israel's opposition leader. Yair Lapid, to find fault with the Netanyahu government's handling of the war because of the 'very fact that the opposition is supposed to question governments'. What a drongo! Lapid quickly put him on the right track about what happens when an entire nation is under attack from a common enemy. The media is infested with halfwit 12 year olds.

http://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1718376269954371897
Netanyahu is now going fully genocidal; calling Palestinians "Amalek" & citing the bible to justify their destruction!
The bible called to "utterly destroy all that Amalek have, & spare them not; but slay both man & WOMAN, INFANT & suckling, ox & sheep, camel & donkey"!

Saul and Genocide
http://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA359213190&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=07923910&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E91acdef&aty=open-web-entry

http://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1718377357063397545
Netanyahu also cites the biblical genocidaire Joshua bin Nun in his speech.
Joshua bin Nun was the inspiration for Israel's Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, when he created his infamous 2017 "decisive plan" for Palestinians, which many say it resembles "the German SS"

The Israeli Lawmaker Heralding Genocide Against Palestinians
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2017-05-23/ty-article/.premium/the-israeli-mk-heralding-genocide-against-palestinians/0000017f-e2ae-d804-ad7f-f3feb9200000

'Deputy Speaker Bezalel Smotrich's admiration for the biblical genocidaire Joshua bin Nun leads him to adopt values that resemble those of the German SS'

"Tomer Persico quoted remarks that MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) made recently at a conference of religious Zionists, where he presented his plan to offer the Palestinians three options: leave the territories, continue to live there with second-class status, or continue resisting, in which case “the Israel Defense Forces will know what to do.” These are chilling words that are liable to lead Israel into committing the horrific crime of genocide."

How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/30/christian-fundamentalists-plan-teach-genocide

As I asked weeks back - 'What makes one religion any better than another?'

Amnesty International has an interesting article
which was published last year that shows why knowing
both the history of the region and sorting the myths
from the facts is so important to better understand
this conflict.

We're told that in May 2021, Palestinian families in
Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood in occupied East
Jerusalem began protesting against Israel's plan to
forcibly evict them from their homes to make way for
Jewish settlers.

Many of the families were refugees who had settled in
Sheikh Jarrah after being forcibly displaced around
the time of Israel's establishment as a state in 1948.

Since Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of
the West Bank in 1967, Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah
have been continuously targeted by Israeli authorities
who use discriminatory laws to systematically
dispossess Palestinians of the land and homes for the
benefit of Jewish families.

In response to the demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah,
thousands of Palestinians across Israel and the
Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) held their
own protests in support of the families and against
their shared experience of fragmentation, dispossession,
and segregation.

These demonstrations had nothing to do with hatred - but
the way the Israelis were treating them. The demonstrations
and protests were met with excessive and deadly force by
Israeli authorities with thousands of Palestinians injured,
arrested, and detained.

These events of May 2021 were emblematic of the oppression
which Palestinians have faced every single day for decades.

The discrimination, the dispossession, the repressions of
any dissent, the killings and injuries - all are
part of a system which is designed to privilege Jewish
Israelis at the expense of Palestinians.

Again, I repeat that's why knowing the history of the
region is so important.

This was taken from the following link:

http://amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

In recent years, genetic studies have demonstrated that,
at least paternally, Jewish ethnic divisions and the
Palestinians are related to each other.

Genetic studies on Jews have shown that Jews and
Palestinians are closer to each other than the Jews
are to their host countries. Therefore, Palestinian-
Jewish rivalry is based on cultural and religious, but
not genetic differences.

With the current violence sweeping over those regions,
it's easy to overlook the things that Jews and Palestinians
share: a deep attachment to the same sliver of contested
land, a shared appetite for hummus, a common tradition of
descent from the patriarch Abraham, and as scientific research
shows - a common genetic ancestry as well.

Of course looking at the Biblical tale of Cain and Abel -
the fact that people are related to each other does not
prevent their developing extreme hostility to one another.