STRATEGIC PATIENCE OR STRATEGIC DELAY?
It remains the case that the Australian government has sat on its hands for ten months during which a genocide has unfolded within Palestine.
The Israeli military operation in Gaza, some say land grab, required two things to ensure its implementation and ongoing rollout. Those two things are force and duration.
The Australian government’s refusal to curtail war materials export from Australia to Israel, at a time when it has been plainly evident for some time that Israel is engaged in repeated mass killings of the local Palestinian population, is highly likely to be viewed by many as complicity in genocide.
The inaction of the Australian government, amongst others, afforded the Israeli military the time it needed to implement its programme of forced expulsion and incremental extermination of the Palestinian people.
Swift and timely action maintained the possibility of curtailing or limiting the Israeli onslaught and destruction of Palestine and its people.
Waiting ten months before finally acting could reasonably be viewed as a means of providing quiet yet stubborn support for the genocidal actions of Israel in Palestine. What may at first glance appear to be confusion and sloppy organisation may in fact be a calculated strategy of delay.
Again, this may come to be viewed by many as complicity in genocide.
Therefore, it may be reasonably construed that Australia, through its elected government, has assisted or enabled the provision of war materials to a belligerent engaged in genocide, and that, Australia’s “hands off” approach to the slaughter of the Palestinian people has indeed been a strategy of delay, which in turn, allowed Israel to expand, increase, and intensify its military campaign against the Palestinian people for over three hundred consecutive days since October 7, 2023.
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