Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood (www.sbs.com.au)

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Labor's excuse:

Greens were deliberately setting up the vote to fail, due to procedural motions in the lower house always being opposed.

Whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.

It failed 80 votes to 5. The 5 included the 4 Greens MPs and independent MP Andrew Wilkie. The fact that there were only 80 noes makes it hard to say precisely who they were and indicates that everyone was so sure it would fail by a large margin that Labor and the LNP didn't bother whipping up their MPs to go vote for it. Disappointing that the other independents didn't bother either.

[-] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Half the independents got in on a campaign that they would basically be Liberals except giving a shit about climate change, so we shouldn't really be surprised. Allegra Spender was out there the other day calling the uni encampments anti-semitic 🙄

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

He is right to an extent, The Greens would have pushed ahead with the vote knowing full well that it would suffer a near unanimous defeat. For them it would have been partially strategical in the sense that they can point to this result in the future as a clear point of moral difference. It was also clearly a sincere motion though, so Watts and Leeser trying to frame it as anything else is pretty stupid. Particularly when neither them nor their respective parties are doing anything to help the situation here or in Gaza.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago

He is right to an extent

Disagree. I understand what you're getting at, but I don't think it accurately represents what he said. If he had said "the Greens set this up to fail because Labor has no interest in supporting Palestinian statehood", he would have been right. But he didn't say it would fail because they don't support it, he said it would fail because "it's procedural".

If Labor had decided to amend it to be more clear in what it would accomplish (because it would not, of course, actually result in the nation of Australia recognising Palestine, just the House of Representatives, a mostly meaningless gesture), or if the Labor Foreign Minister had turned around and recognised it officially through their powers, he would have a point. Heck, I'll allow Labor to the end of the week for me to say "hey, actually, Labor did the right thing here". But as it stands right now? Labor has no defence. Anything they try to say is a transparent attempt to avoid saying "we don't support Palestinian statehood" while holding exactly that position.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

This reinforces my decision to never vote or support liblab again.

Greens are the only viable leftist party in the country.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago

That has pretty much been the case for decades. Labour haven't been *left" since Gough Whitlam was PM.

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Yep

[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

This

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

Good to see we still have bipartisan support for European colonial genocide after all these years!

Really warms my heart knowing that despite all the division these days parasitic rich fucks can still bond over ignoring the rights of people to the land they live on.

[-] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 7 points 5 months ago

You can see whether your local federal MP voted for this here: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansardr/27640/&sid=0011 - note the Ayes are voting to allow the debate on the motion (the first step to recognition of Palestine), and the Noes are voting to shut it down and not even talk about it.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Conveniently, I already knew how my MP voted, because I live in Ryan. But thanks for the link. I didn't realise Hansard would be updated that quickly.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 5 months ago

Australia is a Judaeochristian settler state, and as such has solidarity with other such states at a foundational level.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago

At what point do Labor realise "Are we the baddies?"

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

What are the borders of the proposed Palestinian state?

"From the River to the Sea"?

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Who are you asking? If you're asking me, I'd say the 1947 partition plan. Or at least the West Bank borders from 1967 with the Gaza Strip + extended border with Egypt from the 1947 plan.

I mean, the ideal would be for a peaceful one state solution where neither side is privileged. Maybe even, at least temporarily, a Northern Ireland–style situation where any government is required to have representation of both groups. Because religious ethnostates fucking suck. But Israel has made it painfully clear that they have zero interest in that; they really quite like their apartheid.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Penny Wong has already called for such a two state solution. What was the point of this motion?

I was asking what were Greens proposing? I know many of their constituents chant "from the river to the sea".

I recall that when Labor first rejected the call for a ceasefire and Greens walked out of Parliament. The document Greens were expecting Labor to sign contained no acknowledgement that the October 7 massacre even happened (let alone condemning it).

A few weeks later the document was amended and Labor signed on.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

I was asking what were Greens proposing?

The movement was only to recognise Palestinian statehood, not to define its borders.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Penny Wong has already called for such a two state solution

Well then why hasn't she actually recognised Palestine, like 146 out of 193 other countries already have?

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

You still haven't told me what the borders of that Palestine are.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

You haven't told me why you care. Do you not think Palestine should be recognised as an independent country?

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Because I imagine a state needs to be defined physically before it can be recognised. It seems you don't care enough to track down the statement parliament was asked to sign.

Labor are focused on the hard yards of a 2SS, Greens are trolling with theatre. In fact Greens may not even support a 2SS because it goes against the call of "from the river to the sea".

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It seems you don't care enough to track down the statement parliament was asked to sign.

I saw the statement before I ever saw the result of the vote. It's excruciatingly simple.

This House recognise the State of Palestine.

It couldn't be more simple.

Labor doesn't support it because they support Israel and the genocide Israel is perpetuating. Or to be more accurate, they're accepting of genocide as long as it doesn't upset America. There's nothing more to it.

The idea that Labor is putting in any sort of "hard yards" is utterly laughable, considering they're selling weapons to and buying them from the perpetrators of genocide.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is simpleton level of simplicity.

Penny Wong went to the region pushing the 2SS. That is about 15 million yards.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Words are worth nothing compared to action. With a stroke of a pen she could recognise the Palestinian state. With little more effort than that, the Government could cease selling or buying weapons from Israel. Not doing so is a deliberate choice to signal support for Israel.

If you're going to continue defending genocide, I'm done here. I won't put up with that shit.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It isn't "action" to recognize a borderless state. Or are we talking about recognizing a government? A dictatorial, bigoted, homophobic, sexist, racist government in the form of Hamas.

Supplying weapons at this point I believe to be unethical because the invasion of Rafah is futile except as an excuse for ethnic cleansing. The same kind of cleansing that Hamas have been hell-bent on for decades. I am not in favor of either.

Israel isn't committing "genocide" though. That is not what the UN called it and for good reason.

lsrael could kill every Palestinian if they wanted to but choose not to.

Hamas wants to kill every Jewish Israeli but cannot.

[+] TheHolm@aussie.zone -15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So Greens once again show how out of touch and destructive they are.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 17 points 5 months ago

TIL opposing genocide and getting in line with 146 out of 193 UN members is "out of touch and destructive".

[+] TheHolm@aussie.zone -14 points 5 months ago

I guess genocide is base of Palestiian politics, not Israel. Israel is just fighting a war now, and they did a lot to avoid it.
UN, just another example of "out of touch and destructive"

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago

Israel is just fighting a war now, and they did a lot to avoid it.

That's just not true, though. Netanyahu's goal was to intentionally provoke war with Hamas through acts such as West Bank settlement - his government is the most aggressively pro-settlement in recent history - to boost popularity within his far right coalition who reject a two-state solution and want to see Israel annex the West Bank. Netanyahu is being tried for corruption and desperately needs to keep the far right of his coalition on-side to avoid going to prison. By remaining in power, he can attempt to change Israel's judicial system to stack it in his favour to give himself the best possible chance of avoiding imprisonment.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago

Israel is just fighting a war now, and they did a lot to avoid it.

Imagine punching somone in the face for decades, they strike back and you bawl abiut them starting it.

It's like a domestic violence sufferer finally striking back after years of abuse.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

genocide is base of Palestiian politics, not Israel.

Israel has been a genocidal state for decades. They've just become more "mask off" recently thanks to the casus belli provided to them by an event which anyone could have told you was an inevitable result of Israeli policy. (Policy that literally included propping up Hamas specifically because they're more extreme than PA and thus were more likely to destabilise things, which Netanyahu had no interest in.)

UN, just another example of "out of touch and destructive"

Love how you just make up irrelevant bullshit because it's convenient to your genocidal mindset.

Note that I didn't say anything about what the UN thinks. I mentioned that the vast majority of countries in the world recognise Palestine. I just used UN membership as a proxy for what counts as a country. A convenient but imperfect definition (for example, Palestine and Taiwan).

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