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Mercurial's avatar

A cracking read Joel. We can only hope the community refuses to accept Labor's 'jealous rage' and some good - even a change in their policy on caucus dissent - comes of this pitiful event.

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John West's avatar

Great piece Joel

The racism from the MSM is to be expected. The Saturday Paper, for all it’s talk of being a ‘quality paper’ is just as interested as SMH and the Australian as being the court scribes for whomever occupies the Government and threatens their ‘enlightened centrism’. Zero analysis and zero scepticism of the Government line. Dictatorships would pay a lot for the uncritical regurgitation of ALP talking points. All the headlines were the same and could have been written in the same newsroom.

The dumping of Tu Le last election in Fowler to install Kristina Keneally tells anyone of an ethnic minority background exactly how the ALP sees them as disposable, interchangeable chess pieces for powerful people. They welcome ‘diversity’ in the corporate sense, but not real diversity of opinion. Much is made about Penny Wong, but she has not had an original foreign policy thought that diverges with ALP orthodoxy. When Senator Payman took a principled stance that goes against the ALP rule that you can only say something that a small cabal at the top agrees with.

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Davina's avatar

It has made me truly angry that such a behaviour towards a senator, for whatever their reason or reasoning, can happen in this century to someone standing up for a people being slaughtered daily by a murdering, supremist, apartheid, occupying regime that is aided and abetted by complicit countries. What do these countries expect to gain from this genocide, which has been ongoing since 1946? Is it the oil that has been discovered beneath Gaza, the possibility of building expensive shore front hotels and mansions that Trump's Jewish son-in-law has stated an interest in claiming when telling Israel to "finish the job", or is it the zionist plan to make the whole of Palestine into Israel, and then the rest of the Middle East?

It doesn't take much searching to find out how many Jews (zionists?) have managed to get into vital positions in governments, especially America's, or married into wealthy influential families, including the wife of the new British PM.

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Nicole's avatar

Definitely Zionists Davina. Many Jewish people are horrified by Zionism and its religious, nationalist and murderous doctrine.

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Davina's avatar

The dictating by zionists of the so-called "Scofield Referennce Bible" to Scofield who was a convicted criminal who converted to Judaism, and the myth that Israel was a place rather than the man, beloved of God. That book was ecited more and more each year, and professed thst the editor was still Scofield years after his death. It was gifted to new pastors in America to ensure the zionist myth was continued - and boy, has it ever.

The fact that Ibrahim/Abraham was born and raised in the city of Ur, Iraq where he founded the Jewish religion, is where the homeland is but zionists knew how difficult it would be to take over an area of land there as easily as it was in Palestine where most people were Olive growers and without an army.

I feel for the genuine Jewish people who are tarred with the same stick as zionist egotists.

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Jacqueline Carroll's avatar

Brilliant analysis!

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Mercurial's avatar

McGuinness ('the Labor Party’s key election messages (some tax thingies happened this week and some kind of policy on local manufacturing was announced, FYI)') ably demonstrates what she thinks of our capacity to devote our attention to more than one issue at a time. Well, the media's capacity, definitely; I'm not so sure about the rest of us.

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Sally Corbett's avatar

You've done it again Joel; expressed our dismay and anger at the state of affairs. Senator Payman is really to be admired and she's shown the worst of the ALP and our media. I'm usually don't watch Insiders but surely Amy Remeikis must be admired on this occasion, she continually reframed Spears's questions showing up his bias and editorialising - neutral my arse! Where to next? Keep writing and we musn't give up hope.

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