It takes the death of an Aussie, Zomi Frankcom, to remind Prime Minister Albanese that murdering aid workers is not kosher. After all, in Australia’s calculus one Aussie death outweighs the 33,037 Gazans killed, 454 killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and 75,668 wounded. Two-thirds of the victims are women and children!
Animal rights activists shocked us all with their covert videos showing the most appalling cruelty, where flayed sheep ran amok, caged pigs were tasered and cattle with slit throats writhed on floors of pooled blood.
Is Gaza any different? What can you say when Israeli forces gun down starving people in flour massacres? What can you say when Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta, a British plastic surgeon who volunteered to work in Gaza, says, ‘This has effectively been a war on children’?
The 13,000 child deaths and 1,000 child amputees constitute a paediatric first, never before have so many children been maimed and killed in such a short time. In sharp contrast, about 1,700 Ukrainian children have been killed since May 2023, but Australia and Western governments prioritise Ukraine over Gaza. This is antisemitic racism!
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