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Australia to resume funding to UN Palestinian aid agency UNRWA (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short: Australia will resume its funding to the primary aid agency operating inside Gaza, UNRWA.

Funding was paused by several nations after Israel claimed several workers had links to the October 7 terror attack by Hamas.

What's next? The government has committed additional support to Gaza, including assistance in delivering aid drops.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Okay and are we going to do anything about Israel’s lies? The tens of thousand dead? the genocide?

Or are we just going to resume aid funding while Israel is gunning down UNRWA aid handouts and maybe we might airdrop some crates of food that won’t even feed the millions who need it whilst we pretend everything is okay again.

Oh and fuck Penny Wong for stopping it in the first place and repeating Israeli propaganda while we were all calling them out for it.

I don't know what I don't know. What I do know is this, I know there's people starving in Gaza ... I know that UNRWA is critical to providing this assistance to people who are on the brink of starving.

You fucking knew what you didn’t know when you stopped it though, ya piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The most effective thing Australia could do about war crimes is force Pine Gap to close and remove all US based here. It's like we're a US territory but without the paperwork

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Things didn't go so great for the last fella who tried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I wish more people cared about it as well. I absolutely fail to see the difference between the US, China and Russia. The only differences I guess is that one has successfully interfered with our democracy, dragged us into pointless wars committing war crimes and using nukes on a civilian population.

Edit: I'm not saying I like China and/or Russia, I'm just saying we need to apply the same scrutiny when looking at ourselves and the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah for sure. We're a pathetic protectorate to the shameless inheritors of the British empire.

I am an anarchist, I think all states are inevitably going to be cruel. However the USA is uniquely horrible, communist china so far is the garden variety of empire. I would love to see us throw off the yolk of the usa and take our place in Asia Pacific diplomacy. We can all mix and learn, and hopefully find a way forward without world policing foreverwar empire.

It's fucking embarrassing how Anglo centric we are, how we don't learn Mandarin like all our neighbours, and how ignorant we are (media to blame here) of events in our local region.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Russia, China, and the US are all problems in similar ways, but different scales - in much the same way that the US has a deeply flawed, democracy while China and Russia are plain old autocratic.

The US would absolutely fuck us over for their own benefit (again), but what's in their best interests is generally much more in line with our best interests than China or Russia.

I work in cybersecurity, and we track state sponsored threat actors (mostly, but far from exclusively China and Russia) - people suddenly rush to change the subject when I ask why we don't track US threat actors.