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Monash University lecturer Elliot Dolan-Evans, I’m pleased to report, is likely to have fewer enrolees in his courses next semester. The Herald Sun has highlighted the young academic’s recent social media activity, which, I suspect, is not part of any extracurricular load. On October 7, Dolan-Evans was joining in the general online giddiness regarding the success of Hamas’ pogrom, a revelation which has made Jewish students at Monash feel uncomfortable on campus, to put it mildly. The long-term reputational damage — fingers crossed — has now been done, and if Elliot Dolan-Evans has difficulty finding future students, we can certainly count that as a win.
Though I’m always pleased to see a public campaign of ridicule against our nation’s academics, fairness obliges me to note that Dolan-Evans’ social media transgressions are a bit tame, at least when set against those of some of his colleagues and co-thinkers. Sydney University professor of politics John Keane, for example, isn’t a mere liker of pro-terror posts; no, he takes the initiative and creates some of his own. On October 7, as the carnage got underway, Keane took to X to share an image of the green flags of Hamas. To be fair, he later attempted to clarify this post —which some might have found untimely — by haughtily denying he was a supporter of the terrorist organisation. He defended himself, for some reason, by writing that the flag was only used by Hamas’ military wing, and then he started banging on about its “sacred viridescence”, “polysemic” meanings, and some other academic wankery.
Keane’s University of Sydney colleague, linguistics lecturer Nick Riemer, on the other hand, is refreshingly forthright about his anti-Israel mania. “Resistance is the right of occupied people,” he declared, as the body count was rising at the Nova festival. “Unconditional solidarity with Gazans.” A little later, socialist student group Solidarity decided to bring at least the spirit of October 7 to the Sydney campus. The radicals began advertising an event called ‘Palestine: The Case for a Global Intifada’, with accompanying posters of Hamas bulldozers ripping through border fences. When the university cancelled the get-together on the reasonable assumption that it appeared to be terror-sympathetic, Riemer had one of his noisiest tantrums yet. Unembarrassed, he even openly published his letter to the vice-chancellor, where he whinged about this apparent affront to academic freedom.
Fahad Ali is another University of Sydney academic who lets his emotions get the better of him. Ali is a sessional lecturer whose Palestine Action Group has been the organising force behind the protests that befoul Sydney’s streets every week. At the notorious rally of October 9, when the euphoria associated with Hamas’ massacre was very much in the air, Ali whipped up the crowd by boasting of his own non-existent sympathy towards the murdered Israelis, in case anyone was wondering: “I’m not going to stand before you and shed tears over the settlers, the terrified settlers.” As if this wasn’t contemptible enough, Ali also seemed to look forward to the prospect of more bloodshed, so long as it’s in the service of the anti-Zionist struggle. “Colonialism,” he added, “will only be overcome with greater violence.”
I’d like to pick on Ali a bit more if I may, as he is a serial pest when it comes to these matters.
Quadrant readers may recall that he was one of the principal agitators trying to cancel Decadence, an Israel-sponsored performance at the Sydney Festival in 2022. Ali whined via the ABC and elsewhere that the event — which featured an Israeli choreographer’s dance routine — ought to be shut down immediately, as he thought it “created an unsafe environment for Palestinian artists taking part in the festival and audiences more broadly.” Fahad Ali seems to find Jewish dancers terrifying and dangerous, but swoons at the mere mention of anti-colonial violence against the Zionist enemy. After his loathsome speech, let us recall, Ali and his mob continued to the Opera House, where, in politer moments, the crowd chanted variations of “Where’s the Jews?” and “F*** the Jews.” I wonder, then, how far his concern for general safety really extends.
Another academic who makes Elliot Dolan-Evans seem comparatively well behaved is Randa Abdel-Fattah, a Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Dr Abdel-Fattah is arguably best known for her inability to reach the end of a sentence without some imprecation against the Zionists and settler-colonialism. Hamas, though, shouldn’t be considered a terrorist organisation at all, according to Abdel-Fattah, an alleged expert in Arab and Muslim social movements.
This probably explains the motivations behind her latest academic project — atrocity denial. The New York Times, the United Nations as well as Israel’s own investigators have presented a great deal of evidence against the Hamas psychopaths who raped and sexually assaulted Israeli women on October 7. This includes, let’s not forget, the testimony of the first responders who looked upon the victims’ bloodied and broken pelvises. Abdel-Fattah, our academic expert, still remains unconvinced, and she fulminates against these claims on social media and in her scholarship, where she dismisses all the evidence as — go on, have a guess — Zionist propaganda, of course.
Trust me, I could mention a few more professors in the habit of cheering on or excusing terroristic violence, but it might be easier just to add to this rogues’ gallery the 700 or so signatories to the Academics for Palestine letter published in Overland. This risible statement of solidarity begins with — come on, what else? — a lengthy acknowledgment of country, with all the usual blather about the unceded land and whatnot. Yet it doesn’t bother to acknowledge the Israeli victims or say a bad word about Hamas or call for the release of the hostages. It’s almost as if those things aren’t important at all to the highly educated idiots at our institutions of learning. On the day after Hamas is destroyed, when the war is over, it’s slightly cheering to think of how sooky all these people will be. Who knows? They may even find new ways to beclown themselves.
In the meantime, though, it would be nice to see a few more journalistic outlets taking on the academic class. Keane, Riemer, Ali et al are some preliminary sources to start with, but the reading list is really getting quite lengthy. Elliot Dolan-Evans, as I hope to have shown, doesn’t deserve to remain in ignominy all by himself.
In other news the mass rape hoax is being exposed in real time just as the forty beheaded babies one was. It’s all standard wartime propaganda to cover the real ‘pogrom’, killing tens of thousands, which is being perpetrated against the fenced-in Gaza ghetto. It’s a shame that Quadrant has to be so one-eyed about everything Israel.
They wear accusations of antisemitism like the laurels of joy and victory.
Thanks for the example.
You relentlessly call out antizionism as antisemitism .
So are the many Jews both inside of Israel and outside of Israel that are antizionist and against the Genocide , antisemites ? .
There is a difference , clearly that is being ignored by Israel’s Propagandists .
I am not an antisemite at all .I recognise the value Jews contribute in many fields in Australia but I have had my eyes opened to what the Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians since 1948 .
So yes I am against Israel in what they are doing in Gaza and the West Bank as are many Jews around the world .
Particular styles of criticism of Israel are obvious antisemitic slanders.
Another factor, anti-Zionism is a disagreement with the principle of Zionism, unrelated to anything that Israel actually does. Anti-Israel is the idea that Israel should be dissolved because of its actions or policies. Blurring the completely separate points shows muddy headed thinking about the country and about Judaism. If someone can’t separate them clearly in their own mind they have no basis to insist they can recognise whether anything stated about Israel bridges into an attitude about Judaism and Jews.
You mean your eyes are wide shut. Anyone who thinks that ‘Palestinians’ a name in concocted about 100 years ago when they couldn’t be Syrians or Lebanese or Egyptians or Transjordanians, are somehow the original inhabitants of what is now Israel is yet another useful idiot. Palestine was a region under Assyrian control when the Greeks then Romans invaded, who subsequently referred to the region as Palestine but never a distinct people. This is why there is no distinct Palestinian language, religion or culture, By the way, the Jews called themselves Palestinian Jews and the Arabs called themselves Palestinian Arabs. The false leftist narrative (facts never matter to the leftist blowhards) that the ‘Palestinian people’ a term only first coined in 1920 are somehow long-standing indigenous people, of land that was Ancient Israel and Judea since dating back to 3000BCE, has not the slightest idea what they are defending and are no better than the mal-educated Uni students running around the streets decrying ‘colonialism’. ‘Palestine’ as it stands today was only created in 1988 by the UN, so I don’t know what atrocities against Palestine, Israel could possibly have been perpetrating in 1948 and beyond. You haven’t the faintest idea what you are defending because you clearly do not have the faintest idea about the actual history of the region.
@ Citizen Kane,
I suggest you study Egyptology where you will find, thanks to the Rosetta Stone discovery, transcriptions from ancient hieroglyphs of the words, Palestine and Palestinians, more than 5000 years old. It is mere Zionist propaganda that the Palestinians did not exist in the past.
Since Jaffa oranges were being exported to the world in the 19th century, by Palestinians, from Palestine, we can assume neither they nor their olive groves were ghosts.
Since 530 Palestinian towns and villages were wiped from the face of the earth by Zionist soldiers in 1947/48, with buildings centuries old, we can assume they were not ghosts.
Since Palestinian refugees hold keys to homes where their family lived for a thousand years, now inhabited by the colonists, we can assume that Palestinians have been around for a very long time.
Ignoring historical facts in the name of a convenient fantasy makes no case.
Once again for the intellectually challenged.
Palestine was a region named by the Greeks and Romans.
The Rosetta stone is dated to 196 BCE from a Egyptian temple during the reign of Ptolemy V a Greek Macedonian. So its not even close to 5000 years old – you can’t even get this basic fact right. Yet you seek to lecture others on historical fact – what a joke. Why would anyone believe or be persuaded by a single mal-educated word you say.
There were no unique Palestinian people (no unique language, culture or religion)- the region was occupied the Israelites, Judeans and Canaanites prior to the Egyptian inscriptions on the Rosetta stone. The later overlay of Ancient Greek inscriptions on the Rosetta stone is where the mention of the region of Palestine comes from, in the same way the Greeks and Romans referred to the area of the Pontic Steppe as Scythia, which was variously inhabited by Goths, Huns and Iranian peoples through out this time.
Time for another dose of Bufo 30C for you me thinks!
@Citizen Kane,
Since the words Palestine and Palestinian were written down, carved in stone, by the ancient Egyptians more than 5000 years ago, long before the Greeks or the Romans, we can safely say your explanation of the names is wrong.
No-one said the Rosetta Stone was 5000 years old. The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 and made it possible, after much hard work, for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to be transcribed. Previously this had not been possible. That work continues and Egyptologists have now been able to find the references to Palestine and Palestinians dating back more than 5000 years. It seems the Palestinians invaded Egypt more than once which was the way of it in times past.
Egyptologists have also found a reference, now transcribed, to the arrival of a tribe called Judah, which set up camp in Palestine, there’s the name again, some 3000 years ago. Palestine was ancient when Judaism was invented.
As to being unique in some unified way, Palestine was no different to say Germany, which, in ancient times was not united, contained various tribal groups, but was a country/region. Same with Italy and neither were nations/States until the mid to late 18th century. Palestine has been a country for more than 5000 years. To deny that is to deny historical fact.
I do not understand this feeble attempt to deny Palestine existed when that was the name of the country which the Zionists constantly talked about colonising from the 1890’s; the name of the country the UN recommended be the site of a Zionist Israel; the name of the country occupied by the British before 1947; the Ottomans before that and the name of the country which exported Jaffa oranges around the world in the 19th century. Indeed, in 1930 Golda Meir addressed a postcard to a friend in Tel Aviv, Palestine, so even she knew Palestine existed.
You really have all this mixed up. The Rosetta Stone was merely the medium which allowed truly ancient hieroglyphic data to be understood.
Come, come, Ros. Written down “more than 5000 years ago”. That would be roughly 2000 years before the first known Egyptian hieropliphics.
One more time for the slow learners.
While Eygptians used a root word associated with the word Palestine it was just a common phrase referring to ‘neighbouring land’ and in no way defined the Jordan River to the Mediteranean sea. The first known Eygptian reference to such a term also post-dates the existence of Israelites in the levant by around 2000 years.
The Assyrians (possibly the first true transnational colonialists who enacted genocide upon the Berbers of modern day Morocco) displaced the Ancient Israelites and Judeans from the region of the Jordan River to the Mediterranean sea around 900BCE. Prior to that, the Canaanites (itself a word with Hebrew origins), who are responsible for the original city of Jerusalem, had inhabited the region however their civilisation collapsed as the first recorded attempt at a city state fell upon hard times. At this point the Levant was divided into the kingdoms of Ancient Israel, Judah (or Judea), Philistine and Phoenicians to the north (modern Lebanon and Assyrians to the East in modern Syria/Iraq). While of these groups were sometimes subsequently collectively referred to Canaanites, they infact all had separate cultural, linguistic and religious traditions, however it is thought that Israelites emanated out of earlier Canaanite peoples and culture.
It was the Assyrians who first referred to the region of the levant as Palestine, but it was the later Greeks and Romans who popularised the term. However, they never referred to Palestinians as a unique people or cultural group. Indeed, the Greeks would refer to the Phoenicians of Palestine. Palestine was always simply a name for a region not a people, the same way Assyrians referred to an area on the Saudi peninsula to the south of modern-day Israel as Edom.
Hence the reason why there is no unique Palestinian, language, Culture or Religion yet the antecedents of modern-day Israel had all of these features.
‘Palestinian’ people as they are understood today as a group of Muslim Arabs was only first coined in the 1920’s after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire to describe and give political identity to Trans-Jordanians.
The only defining features of ‘Palestinian’ people is that they are Arabs and they are Muslim- a religion whose genesis dates to just the 7th century AD – some 4000 plus years after the genesis of Hebrew and Jewish religion and language in the Levant. It is laughable that anyone would argue that the former has greater force of indigeneity than the later.
The state of Palestine only ever came into force, after UN decree, in 1988 – a whole 40 years after modern re-annexation of Israel onto the area that was Ancient Israel and Judea, home of a defined people and culture of Ancient Israelites and Judeans.
Your desperate attempt to falsely claim that Eygptians referenced Palestine and Palestinians, ascribed to hieroglyphs of a period prior to the existence of hieroglyphs, demonstrates a flawed historical understanding that underpins all the postmodernist leftists with their equally flawed morality and lack of intellectual rigor.
All you are left with is your hysterical and baseless Neo-marxist tropes – Occupation blah blah blah, Genocide blah blah blah, Colonialists blah blah blah
Pathetic!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region)
So it’s really, and only, a huge misunderstanding. It must be then, that the scenes I was shown on the media were merely a Hollywood team of videographers setting the scene for a future movie on those poor misunderstood settlers of Gaza. Isn’t it remarkable how realistic the movie-makers can be? You disgust me!
You know how they got Stanley Kubrick to fake the images of the so-called moon landings? Apparently, Christopher Nolan has been drafted in to fake the footage of Hamas “atrocities”.
Drop the faux-jewish screen name, Horst.
Yeah, drop it. Use your real name.
The numbers speak for themselves over 30000 Palestinians killed the majority of them women and children .Thousands more missing presumed dead under the rubble .Thousands in immediate danger of death from their wounds and sickness and starvation because of the IDF controlling the entrance of aid vehicles to a trickle as to what is needed .
This is a Genocide for the purpose of Terrorising the Palestinians with an end point of Ethnic Cleansing Gaza .75 % of Gaza housing destroyed or extremely damaged by the Army that is claimed to take more care in protecting non combatants than any other .
Quadrant is just another rag for the Zionist Propaganda onslaught that we see through out the western world media .
Name even one baby that was beheaded on Sept 7 ?
Yes I was shocked and condemn what Hamas did on Sept 7 , but I have been awakened that this started long before Sept 7.
Bodycount is for simpletons who have no ability to assess situations except by bland numeral scores. Stick to sport statistcs.
You mean October 7?
How do you know the majority are women and children?
How do you know they are innocent? Are you suggesting women and children can’t be terrorists?
How do you know it is 30,000?
Given that Israel has carried out 30,000 airstrikes, how can 1 person dying every airstrike, including terrorists, be credibly described as genocide?
Gotta love the faux moral relativism – ‘ I was shocked what Hamas did on September 7…’ You can’t even get the date right because you are an insincere useful idiot. Your numbers are straight from Hamas Health Ministry and as such you are just another mouthpiece for an Islamist terrorist organisation.
I am amazed at how sensitive everyone is about the topic of exaggerated wartime propaganda which is as old as war itself.
For those interested:
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
https://youtu.be/AALREbJZEZk?t=119
@David Isaac,
The egregious bias toward Israel’s nearly 80 year old murderous occupation and continued colonisation of Palestine and its ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide, from Quadrant debases a once great magazine and an Australian icon. It also debases Judaism, a religion of sound moral principles and ethics, discarded in the name of Zionism at enormous cost to it and its followers.
“Nick Riemer, on the other hand, is refreshingly forthright about his anti-Israel mania. “Resistance is the right of occupied people,” he declared, as the body count was rising at the Nova festival.” Nick Riemer’s opinion is pure fantasy. It shows he is an ignoramus. History shows that by August 2005, the Israeli army had completely abandoned Gaza, having evacuated several settlements in the territory in what was billed as a land-for-peace deal. In reality, Gaza has not been occupied by Israel since August 2005. Nick Riemer’s pathetic justification for the vile and depraved atrocities committed by Hamas on Israeli soil shows him to be a dangerous and ignorant bigot.
@StJohnofGrafton
According to Amira Hass, senior writer at the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, your claims regarding Israel leaving Gaza are incorrect. Hass was writing in reply to Israelis saying similar things as you have just said.
I quote:
“For years, people have been shouting that all the major problems stem from the occupation. And here a small experiment to cancel the occupation was conducted. The Palestinians could have built themselves a model mini-state there. Instead, they preferred to invest the money in a war against Israel. Do you have an explanation for that?”
Shalom Reader S.,
First of all, the Israeli occupation was not canceled. Israel continued its highhanded control of the lives of the Gaza Strip’s residents and Gaza’s development options, well after Israel dismantled the settlements and army bases located there. Second, as per the Oslo Accords, to which Israel is a signatory, the Gaza Strip is not a separate entity but an integral part of the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967.
According to the Palestinians, and according to international opinion, this territory was supposed to become the Palestinian state. The fact that Israel severed the Gazan population from the West Bank’s and that Israelis have continued to treat an isolated Gaza, which is 365 square kilometers in size and lacks resources, as a separate entity, are in themselves evidence of Israeli control over it – and of Israeli chutzpah to boot.
I can’t quote what I’ve written in hundreds and perhaps thousands of articles. So I’ll be brief: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon neither consulted with the leadership of the Palestinian Authority about the disengagement, nor did he coordinate its implementation with that limited self-rule government, which in 2005 was not split yet between Fatah and Hamas. Sharon followed a gradual track that Israel outlined from the early 1990s, while doing a good job of concealing its severity and significance during the Oslo process: creating a regime of prohibitions and restrictions on the Palestinians’ freedom of movement, while creating Palestinian enclaves. On January 15, 1991 Israel began this comprehensive policy, and its immediate result, which worsened over the years, was cutting off the population of Gaza from the West Bank and from the world.
Sharon continued his predecessors’ work. The draconian siege imposed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Gaza in 2007 was a quantitative change, but not a change in essence. This consistent policy indicates the forethought behind the action: not an experiment to cancel the occupation, but one of the ways to prevent the establishment of the Palestinian state based on the plan that the Palestine Liberation Organization and the international community saw before their eyes.
The continued Israeli domination over the Gaza Strip, up until October 7, was manifested in several ways. The first is its total control of the Palestinian population registry, which includes Gaza’s residents.
NB: PLEASE NOTE. It is Israel that decides who is permitted to carry the ID card of a resident of Gaza or the West Bank. Every detail – including place of residence – registered in the ID card, which the PA technically issues, requires Israeli approval. Even natives of Gaza, whose residency status Israel revoked before 1994, cannot renew it without Israel’s approval.
The severance from the West Bank (and from Israel) critically damaged the capabilities for economic development in the Gaza Strip. In any case, Gaza has been in a state of economic deterioration or stagnation since 1967 due to deliberate steps that Israel adopted. Israel controls not only the border crossings but also Gaza’s aerial and maritime space, which means it doesn’t permit Gazans to exercise their right to freedom of movement via the sea and air.”
Hamas and the people that support them are Hamas-holes.
As I pointed out in a recent article in Quadrant, what do you think the response of any American President would be if the Cuban government launched thousands of rockets and missiles aimed at Florida, and then sent thousands of terrorists to the United States, where they massacred in cold blood hundreds of people at a music festival and then went into an American town and murdered or kidnapped everyone there, burning American babies alive? The answer is rather obvious: within a week, Havana would become a heap of smoking rubble, closely resembling Berlin or Dresden in 1945, a response which would have the approval of 98 per cent of Congress and 95 per cent of the American people – and that would be just the beginning.
Why are none of the ‘occupier’ chorus harping on Arabs getting out of Palestine? After all, they, care of Islam, invaded, occupied and colonized the area in, what the 7th or 8th century AD, and largely failed to form a state out of it. Jews have had to put up with occupation by Islamic Arabs for centuries, yet, continued to live in the land.
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And we already have the ‘two state’ solution. The Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can live quite happily in Jordan, or Egypt, and should do so after the UN created Israel to enable Jews to defend themselves. Which they are doing with one hand behind back.
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Imagine if they acted proportionately: no warning to civilians regarding attacks, no mamby pamby with guided munitions, just cluster bombs for all and ‘bunker busters’ for the tunnels. The harpies need to understand how savage real war is.
But its not really about land and never has been. It is the call of the ‘Prophet’ to eliminate Jews that lies at the heart of this horror show.
If the command of the prophet is responsible for the conflict how did the Jews survive twelve centuries as a small minority in the Holy Land? Once they became a majority and persecuted the Christians and Muslims, taking their land bit by bit and killing them slowly some have attempted to fight back. Quelle surprise!
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The purpose of the propaganda war, downplaying and obfuscating the levelling of Gaza and exaggerating the initial attack, is to maximize the amount of death and destruction which Israel can get away with without excessive pushback from the public in the West or at home. Other your victims enough and they will come to seem less than human. It works nearly every time but the counter-narrative on this occasion is quite strong and has the support of quite a few Jews including Israelis.
Which Muslims and Christians have the Israelis “persecuted”? This claim is drivel. If you are looking for persecution, you might try any and every Islamic regime or. militant movement, including Hamas.
Still waiting for your reply on this one, “David Isaac”.
“.. how did the Jews survive 12 centuries in the Holy Land..” demonstrates the second rate intellect you bring to the debate. The antecedents of the Jewish people, the Israelites and Hebrews of Ancient Israel and Judea date back at least 50 centuries to the land that is modern day Israel. Now, how old is Islam again? So we have useful idiots such as yourself convinced that the original inhabitants of modern day Israel were Muslim Palestinians who have somehow been colonised and occupied, when such a people could only ever have originated in the 6th century AD as opposed to at least 3000BCE for the Ancient Israelites. Watching you bath in the faeces of your own ignorance and failed moral relativism on this forum is of great humor to me.
That’s on you Mr Kane but I was responding to the contention that the tenets of Islam were responsible for the current conflict, so I was only referring to the period after the Arab conquest in the 630s, allowing for a century of Christian rule after the First Crusade. Perhaps some closer reading before you fire off your humorously inappropriate invective might be in order.
It’s an irrelevance what your start date is for your purported ‘Palestinian’ autonomy of current day Israel is, the fundamental premise that it exists in any way that overrides the far greater thread of the Israeli/Jewish lineage is fatally flawed. The notion that Israeli’s are occupiers in a land that is home to their antecedants by a margin of 3500 years, at least, prior to the Johny come lately Muslim ‘Palestinians’ is simply farcical.
Your replies are incoherent and you are arguing against points which I never made. The floor is yours.
So you are now walking away from all your comments here since October 7, and intimated again above, denouncing the state of Israel and Zionism as a Colonialist occupying project against the ‘native’ Palestinians or have you realised how moronic an argument that actually is?
On reflection, whilst it has some similarities to a European colonial project it more resembles the Coudenhove-Kalergi inspired influx of Muslims and black Africans into parts of Europe, so-called immivasion. Europe hasn’t reached the 1948 stage of formal takeover yet, but many areas have already fallen, witness the impunity with which grooming gangs operate in England. Same goes here in many parts of Australia, with regards to a variety of state-sanctioned Asian immivaders, although thankfully our replacements are generally a law-abiding bunch, excepting the Africans of course. Albo has signalled that he wants to markedly increase arrivals from the dark continent.
Is that the best you got? It’s not even close to an analogue of the Hebrew /Jewish / Israelite / Israeli history.’ Who would have thought that Africans and Muslims were the original inhabitants of Europe and it is there that their cultural foundations were born. The Kalahari bushmen were actually originally from the Pontic Stepppe and the Assyrians migrated to the Middle East from Scandinavia did they? Each contribution just raises your flag as a fool higher and higher. Bring it on.
It’s obviously not an exact analogy and I don’t deny the strong and enduring identification of Jews with the Holy Land. As I have said before Israel’s claim to the territory is really based partly on international sympathy and largely on military force, adroit diplomacy and support from diaspora Jews and other Zionists . The Palestinian Arabs,, as we Europeans, are just the current losers in the endless struggle. At least the Palestinians understand who their enemy is.
The atrocities committed against women and children in the first hours of Hamas’ attack have been well documented.
The crisis team that is doing it is well established and resourced, With DNA tracking, some of the perpetrators will be found and tried for war crimes and aggravated sexual and physical assaults.
The taking of hostages, old sick whoever, is beneath contempt.
Their failure to be protected and meds delivered to them callous and atrocity.
There still remains the enigmatic situation that Hamas apparently finds itself embroiled in.
No plan A for the millions of noncombatants, the women children and young men not involved when their invasion plans failed to alight a Middle East War, Jihad, the one to bring on the End Times.
Where were the UN badged fleets of airconditioned busses ferrying them to billets in Cairo?
Where were the new tent cities, the fleets of boats coming to bring them to safety in Qatar and Iran.
There are plenty of hotels in Qatar.
The Ukrainians, through the EU and other countries such as Australia managed it, why not the Arab League?
Its not like they don’t have any coin.
‘Based on latest figures and estimates, the Arab League has a GDP of approximately US$3.5 trillion at nominal values and $8.4 trillion at purchasing power parity (PPP). The member states with the largest nominal GDP are Saudi Arabia at US$1.07 trillion, followed by the UAE at $509.18 billion and Egypt at $389.4 billion. The member states with the highest GDP (PPP) are Saudi Arabia at US$2.25 trillion, followed by Egypt at $1.81 trillion and the UAE at $895.17 billion.’
Just think what they could have prevented, the death of innocents in Hospital or just going about their business.
Cairo Iran and Qatar never pleaded to take them for humanitarian reasons.
Please explain.
It’s worse. When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the Gazans could have easily have developed their land. There was no shortage of reconstruction funds. At the very least, they could have turned Gaza into a tourist hub, with its beautiful beaches and climate. Instead, the people had the misfortune to elect Hamas, which, predictably, has never allowed another election since, and whose original charter contains the most squalidly racist stuff about killing jews, and proudly proclaims that their only goal is the elimination of Israel by violence. Article 7 is a choice sample of its primitive bilge:
“The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.””
(Under some pressure from its allies, who were a little embarrassed by the pathological garbage in the Charter, Hamas made some cosmetic amendments to it in 2017, but hasn’t actually rowed back from any of its views about murdering Jews, as the horrors of October 7 show. )
After coming to power, Hamas proceeded to immiserate its own people by spending billions in gift and aid money, not on improving the lot of its citizens or attempting to build some sort of civil society, but on arms, tunnels, bombs and rockets. Its top leaders, all the while, live in luxury in Qatar. You couldn’t make it up.
What is often overlooked in these discussions was that there was a ceasefire in operation on October 7! – yes, a ceasefire, which Hamas broke.
QED
Meanwhile Egypt keeps its border firmly shut to Gazan refugees, while who’s flying in all the food aid? The good ole USA, of course. Not a single, affluent Arab nation in sight. So much for their love of fellow Palestinian Muslims.
@pmprociv,
Why would they help Israel ethnically cleanse Palestine? The Palestinians should not have to leave. Stop the bombing. Send in aid. Let them rebuild. End the occupation. The Palestinians, most of them would not leave anyway because they remember the first Nakba. They will die in and for their homeland. Well, they are already, but never underestimate the courage and determination of people fighting for their land against occupation and oppression.
The Herald Sun has highlighted the young academic’s recent social media activity…
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That leads me, and I presume all, to the ZTA site. .
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This is the Herald Sun’s take on the issue (I hope):
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https://todayspaper.heraldsun.com.au/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=dfa0dcfb-d088-4c2e-b675-6ce44b632252&share=true
Not happy, Ed!
To the moderator.
I see you are still censoring comments from me. Why? I am due to re-subscribe to Quadrant in a few months and it will not happen unless you stop this censorship. I see there are a few who are countering the egregious bias toward Zionist Israel. If Quadrant, a once greatly valued Australian icon is to survive it will need more than funding from vested agendas who want to dictate policy to suit themselves and a foreign country for whom they work. It will need the support of Australians. I have returned to see if Quadrant has gone further down the plughole of egregious Zionist shill and promoter of occupation, colonisation, apartheid and genocide.
Boo hoo.
It’s funny how you use the term Zionism as if it is a ideological pejorative when all it is, is a movement of the Jewish people to rightfully have the lands of Ancient Israel and Judea recognised as their rightful homeland.
Apparently QoL is a Zionist shill and promoter of ‘occupation, colonisation, apartheid and genocide.’
What a farce you really are – that trope will be right at home with your mates in the anti-colonialist, Aboriginal and free Palestine movements on the far Left – oh yeah that’s right you have a racist aversion to Australian Aboriginals as one of their occupiers and colonisers – so no home for you there either, what a shame.
Note to your misplaced ego – you weren’t missed and you won’t be missed.
Rosross
I was wondering where you had gone. I found your drivel very useful when I had trouble falling asleep.
Too bad David Isaac can’t be disciplined for his offensive comments.