Oxfam reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza despite ceasefire

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• Either Netanyahu is confident that no future Israeli government would hand him over to the International Criminal Court to answer charges of genocide or he has resigned himself to spending his retirement in an ICC court in the Hague and languishing in jail for his later years.

  Which is it ?

• The quite twisted talk about anti-semitism, with resort to older nasty history, is misleadng if it is to involved in current Istaeli actions, which are blatant murder and theft based on unsupportable old superstition and claims of rights within such utter stupidity. There is no abrahamic god, no promised land, no chosen special people, no absolving from law and its consequences. Netanyahu and his supporters must be charged, eliminated, outed. But gutless brainless runaway stupid USA leadership distorts all world action, opinion, justice, decency. However, its Supreme Court has just awakened slowly. Chronic insane criminal Trump may get some bared teeth. No? (and I opposed the old anti-semitism through a long education career...) #later addition.., I've been reading an article by Mike Brock, on N Ferguson's belated understanding that he, Ferguson, was "wrong" about Trump and the danger he poses to USA life. Ferguson, known to me in history for two decades, is and always was a solid egofixated swollen prick, determined to be noticed, well paid, to have networked up chosen friends and supporters, to be regarded as sage, essential, correct, when he is a swollen penissimo fraud, a foul twister, an avoider of essentials. The Trump rubbish is typical...

• TM, it's not simply a case of this or that. There's still the question of Netanyahu's incomplete criminal proceedings trial in Jerusalem, and it's not out of the question that he will end up in an Israeli prison prior to any ICC proceedings.

• Canguro, Good Point !

• By calling the enemy 'terrorist' denies them legitimacy. Hamas is a terrorist organisation because Israel has deemed it to be so. Any one who happens to live in the enclave known as the Gaza strip is by association with the terrorist Hamas group also deemed to be terrorist.

  Unfortunately, when only incidents of defiance are seen out of the context of an occupation of the 'terrorist's' land since 1948 are seen as terrorist activity. but the treatment of the Palestinians seen as a legitimate defensive position, there will never be a sniff of humanitarianism toward Palestinian people. As in Gaza, so on the West Bank and increasingly the Golan Heights.

  And it goes back before 1948 to the Balfour declaration of 1917 where Britain effectively promised Palestine to the Zionists, rendering the Palestinians as unworthy of living in that land.

  What the Israelis are doing in breaking the ceasefire is just business as usual.

• Albanese government has a serious moral and legal dilemma and should be punished for this appalling abusive complicit foreign policy, and as a signatory of the Geneva Convention and UN on human rights. Unfortunately, punishing Albanse means worse - Dutton. Albanese knows this and this is a typical example of no change to this dreadful status quo. We are not being served by our two party system, we are being taken for granted and ignored - This is not democracy. The solution is simple - Do not vote LNP or Labor, vote Green, Teal Independent, making sure you put Liberals, LNP and Nationals last nowithstanding those right wing fringe parties like One Nation - laster still, and Labor second or third to last as the case may be. That will take us forward!