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How traumatising to watch the unprovoked extreme violence of the police in Sydney at the nationwide rally against the war criminal Herzog on Monday a week ago.

Then having to see how these thugs attacked kneeling worshippers in their prayers was outrageous and disgusting. The use of pepper spray reminded me of the behaviour of ICE (immigration and customs) officers in Minnesota. So shocking to see Labor’s Minns and Albanese defending these atrocious criminal outbursts by the police. Former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott is calling for rubber bullet weapons and more.

What an insult to invite this man who was seen to write on bombs before they were used to kill women and children. But then we have to remind ourselves that our Labor government gave $917 million taxpayers dollars to the ‘Elbit System’, an Israeli war technology company, around 20 days after five-year-old Hind Rajab was for hours alone, alive, in a car with all other family members having been killed.

She was on her dead uncle’s telephone begging her mum to get her while she was bleeding and worried about blood getting on her clothes. Her and the ambulance workers were killed hours later on January 29, 2024.

They counted 355 rounds on the car and the Washington Post proved through satellite images that there were Israeli tanks in the area which Israel disputed as usual.

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