When Opposition Leader Sussan Ley was asked about the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza – while “incredibly distressing” – she appeared to indicate that the blame lays with Hamas. Then, when a journalist tried to ask a follow-up question, she is alleged to have cut him off with the suggestion to move on.
That response – if confirmed – speaks volumes.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about diplomacy. It’s about basic humanity. And right now, too many politicians and media outlets are showing none.
They’re not operating in a vacuum. A small but powerful network of lobbyists, media owners, and foreign policy influencers decide which lives are worthy of outrage – and which ones can be quietly buried. That influence doesn’t reflect the values of most Australians. It reflects power.
If you’re more afraid of upsetting foreign interests than mourning dead children, then your moral compass isn’t broken – it’s been thrown away.
Some of us will not just move on.
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Saying obvious truth can bring one trouble, selectively, so Israeli murder and theft, their clear policy in a chain of zionism from the 1880’s, gets ignored. Jewish money, control, threat, influence, is everywhere, but do not mention…Palestine and its people, wronged, were robbed in 1947-8. There can be no solution, no good, unless we SEE.
tbh the Labor party is complicit as well. Israel deserves and must be totally sanctioned for its deliberate annihilation of the Palestinian people. Nothing short of the same Holocaust that was perpetrated against them. ARe they asking themselves what the remaining hostages are eating?? Unlikely they are eating any more than the locals. Maybe a pic or two of emaciated Israelis might do the trick.
Just stop it, call out the war criminal for his actions.
She has no ‘woke’ qualities, so her moral direction is not broken. Her moral compass is, as her answer showed, working perfectly.
ps
xstians caused so many sad jew stories that they should be ashamed not to stop the repetition of their holocaust murders and force the IDF to stop killing muslim women and children
Sussan Ley’s “defence” is on par with Paul Tibbetts denial of responsibility for Hiroshima claiming that the Japanese militarists killed the people of Hiroshima. It seemed to have escaped his attention that back in the USA, women were working in armaments factories, and that many Japanese youths had been drafted from school to assist the war effort. He has no defence of that claim. If anything, Harry Truman bears responsibility for being a poor student of history and issuing an ultimatum that was too vague. The difference between Hiroshima and Gaza, however, is that one was a criminal act of war even if the bomb was dropped on a military target, and one is an act of genocide.