Neither were the churches. Or the hospitals. Or the UN facilities. Or the Schools. Or the desalination plant. Or the tents filled with refugees. Or the graves of Australian soldiers. Or Palestinian civilians. Or the greenhouses.
Do you understand?
Exactly. The only language violence respects or listens to is violence.
It's the tolerance paradox - and why it's a death sentence to tolerate groups or people who won't reciprocate tolerance.
When you think the Brisbane Times couldn't be more of a rag - not that I would expect political literacy from an outfit that struggles even with journalism but bloody hell.
Fraser Annings office was literally in our CBD - like come off it.
As they should. These people don't care about us.
Jeez dude, can we all just chill out for a second?
Nah - the ABC was pretty big on its twitter integration. We had a few long running, decade+ old forum-style shows where people could/would tweet in live to be part of the program.
This is a big thing for Aunty, in terms of its culture.
It would be so cool if they set up instances!
These people are protesting to uphold the status quo of an apartheid system - I would caution against seeing anyone in Israel (especially and pointedly in illegally occupied Palestinian lands and stolen Palestinian houses) as a moral voice.
No, you're alright, I think you're entirely justified to rant about that. We continue being a very short sighted species.
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Because Palestine is a multifaith, multicultural country and Israel is a colonial foothold & apartheid that is actively and systemically trying to erase both Palestine and Palestinians.
Resistance is justified, oppression is not.