How about doing the same as South Africa is doing rather than meaningless theatre.
After having killed less than 1/10th of the civilians in Ukraine than Israel already killed in Gaza, Russia was already getting sanctions, and rightly so.
Even if Australia right this moment imposed sanctions on Israel - rather than this, meaningless without action, expression of concern - it would still be treating this situation using a very different moral weight than the other.
PS: The United Kingdom joining them really shows the complete total hypocrisy of such “calling out”, given that not 2 weeks ago - at a point when the number of killed Palestinians already exceeded the 10k - the UK decided to send surveillance planes to Gaza to help Israel with targetting. It’s very very hard to believe this “calling out” is anything other than yet more stalling by governments to keep the local public opinion and international partners from turning on them.
How about doing the same as South Africa is doing rather than meaningless theatre.
After having killed less than 1/10th of the civilians in Ukraine than Israel already killed in Gaza, Russia was already getting sanctions, and rightly so.
Even if Australia right this moment imposed sanctions on Israel - rather than this, meaningless without action, expression of concern - it would still be treating this situation using a very different moral weight than the other.
PS: The United Kingdom joining them really shows the complete total hypocrisy of such “calling out”, given that not 2 weeks ago - at a point when the number of killed Palestinians already exceeded the 10k - the UK decided to send surveillance planes to Gaza to help Israel with targetting. It’s very very hard to believe this “calling out” is anything other than yet more stalling by governments to keep the local public opinion and international partners from turning on them.