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Veronica's comment: "Can you imagine watching a movie about a girl being ki||ed in the Holocaust and then saying we must also think about how difficult it has been for the Naz!s"
The strange spelling is to fool the Facebook algorithms.

THE AUSTRALIAN CULTURE The Voice of Hind Rajab: The harrowing film that recreates a Gaza tragedy Director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice in this sobering Oscar-nominated docudrama. NIKKI GEMMELL 2 min read March 10, 2026 - 12:00AM

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The contentious text is: "I hope for similarly thoughtful, courageous docu­drama one day from the Israeli side so we can glean both viewpoints."

But if the West truly wanted to liberate the people of Iran, the most plausible means by which to pursue this would be to empower the democratic institutions that already exist. By insisting that all negotiations with Iran were had with the elected government, and tying sanctions relief to structural reform that would see key policies determined by the elected civilian government instead of religious clerics, and ending the Ayatollah's veto power over candidates and policies. Instead of Trump demanding that he choose the next leader of Iran, he could demand that the man the Iranian people elected to lead actually be granted the autonomy to represent the will of the Iranian people. Pezeshkian is not going to be a Nelson Mandela, he will not turn Iran into a progressive liberal democracy if given the chance. But if given sufficient authority, he will reform it, even if only at the margins. But for many Iranians... that's all they want. Remember, while Pezeshkian won the last election, a conservative hardliner who advocated for uncompromising resistance against the West still got 44.3% of the vote. But by empowering the office of the Iranian Presidency the people of Iran are empowered to choose their own destiny, and if given a fair deal, that will almost certainly mean the pursuit of peace.

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The Supreme Leader appoints the head of the Judiciary of Iran, and is commander-in-chief of all Iranian military forces. In practice, the Supreme Leader also sets the strategic direction of foreign policy decisions, such as it's posture towards the US, the funding and arming of its proxies, and its nuclear program. All candidates for elected office must be approved by a group of clerics known as the Guardian Council, who are effectively appointed by the Ayatollah and can also veto any law that Parliament passes. So while the Iranian people do get to vote to elect their politicians, it's the religious clerics that ultimately dictate the policies that lead it to conflict with the West. In 2024, the Iranian people elected a man widely seen as a "reformer", Masoud Pezeshkian, as President with 53.7% of the vote. Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon by training, repeatedly argued that Iran needed diplomacy to end the sanctions that crippled the economy, and believed that reducing tensions with the West would see a rise in living standards. He supported loosening strict social enforcement, especially around women’s rights, and openly criticised the state’s handling of the protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. But, it's important to remember that he would not have been allowed to run if the clerics believed that he was a threat to the Islamic revolution or the authority of the Ayatollah, so he's unlikely to be a willing participant to the overthrow of the regime.

The Shah held absolute control over Iran until the 1979 revolution which saw the monarchy overthrown after months of popular protests. While the revolution is largely remembered as an "Islamic" revolution, it's important to remember that that's not how it began. There were multiple factions within the movement to overthrow the monarchy, and most wanted to see it replaced with some kind of secular democracy. However, the Shiite clerics who wanted to see a state established based on Islamic law had the advantage of controlling a vast network of Mosques throughout the country which allowed them to distribute messages, mobilise demonstrations, and organise strikes and protests, far better than any of the other factions could manage. They also had a hugely popular figurehead in Ruhollah Khomeini, who had been exiled since the 1960s after criticising the Shah. Within months of the Shah's removal, power was consolidated within the hands of the religious clerics who played the lead role in drafting the new constitution. While this new constitution did provide for elections of a President and Parliament, it also created the role of Supreme Leader, giving a senior religious cleric ultimate authority over the state.

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Did you know that Iran has Presidential and Parliamentary elections every four years, with real votes, universal suffrage, and Presidential term limits? There are some important caveats, however, and they're pretty crucial to understand. Not just because of the way it shapes Iran's posture towards the world, but because it could provide a pathway towards a type of regime change that could actually work. To start with, unlike most of its neighbours, Iran has a reasonably long history of democratic tradition. It introduced a constitutional monarchy as far back as 1905 after the Persian Constitutional Revolution. This was significantly undermined in 1925 when a military officer named Reza Shah Pahlavi seized power and created a new monarchy with himself at its head. Elections did continue, but any opposition to the Shah was brutally repressed. In 1951, a new prime minister named Mohammad Mosaddegh had enough public support to challenge the Shah's grip on power, and, fatefully, also sought to nationalise Iran's oil. But in 1953, a coup backed by the United States and Britain removed him from power and restored the Shah’s authority.

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A little background on #Iran
Carrick Ryan Tuesday 10 March 2026 07:55
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If this had happened at a Jewish event, what would the police response have most likely been?

#AusPol #Islamophobia

Solo Monk @JJKALE2 Scott Morrison may have been our worst PM. @AlboMP is probably our most dangerous. Thoughts! 11:18 AM · Mar 10, 2026 · 2,655 Views

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Interesting comment. I'd say John Howard was our most destructive PM. Labor has been less and less Labor since Hawke. 🤔 Maybe Albo is most dangerous in some ways.

Thoughts?
#AusPol #AnthonyAlbanese

Ground Troops, Airstrikes, and Displacement: No Guarantee of Safety in Lebanon With Relentless Israeli Assaults As Lebanon’s strained shelter system struggles to cope, Israel is focused on “collective punishment” and pitting the Lebanese government against Hezbollah.

“… the Israeli commando unit involved in the operation disguised themselves in uniforms that resemble the Lebanese Army’s and moved through the area using ambulances marked with the insignia of Hezbollah’s Islamic Health Organization.”

#Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Lebanon

The Albanese controversy shows how universities have lost their way A cancelled venue for a UN rapporteur’s appearance highlights how universities are increasingly restricting debate about Israel and Palestine under pressure over antisemitism.

“The events surrounding the Albanese visit leaves me with a conviction that this generation of university leaders have, in many cases, lost their way. We all suffer as a result. It is a national tragedy.”
#censorship #AusPol #ForeignInfluence #CrimesAgainstHumanity #FrancescaAlbanese #Zionism

HAARETZ While all eyes are on Iran, Jewish terrorism is rising in the West Bank Haaretz Editorial · March 08 2026 Israel, by means of the Jewish marauders, is advancing the gradual expulsion of Palestinians from their lands, and in doing so, it may be responsible for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity

"The Jewish terror in the West Bank has a goal: expulsion."
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#Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #genocide

Screen snip from X (Twitter) Solo Monk @JJKALE2 "If tomorrow Trump drops a nuclear bomb on Tehran and instantly kills 7 million people, what do we do?"

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A chilling thought. Our Foreign Minister would probably express grave concern.
#AusPol #USpol #Iran #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes

A growing Jewish challenge to Israel’s war narrative Jewish organisations using social media are challenging dominant narratives about Israel’s actions in Gaza, framing the conflict through human rights, international law and Jewish ethical traditions.

Resistance narrative.
“Because these organisations speak as Jewish groups, they disrupt the assumption that criticism of Israeli policy necessarily reflects hostility toward Jewish identity.
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Digital platforms can amplify propaganda, but they can also amplify conscience.”
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine

There is no hope of lasting peace until #Zionism is proscribed as an ideology, #Israel dismantled and crimes committed in pursuit of Zionist goals prosecuted.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity #genocide #WarCrimes

"The light on the hill never promised comfort. It promised obligation. It demanded clarity precisely when clarity carried risk. It assumed conflict and required courage. It asked governments to disturb settled arrangements when those arrangements entrenched injustice." #auspol

And then there's Africa…the youngest continent on earth, median age 19, projected to reach 2.5 billion people by 2050, the largest workforce the planet has ever seen & China understood 20y ago that whoever builds Africa's infrastructure owns the 21st century, while the US was spending 4 trillion dollars destroying Iraq & Afghanistan China was building railways in Kenya, dams in Ethiopia, ports in Djibouti, highways in Nigeria, tech hubs in Rwanda, stadiums, hospitals, government buildings, telecom networks powered by Huawei across the entire continent.. & they did it without firing a single bullet, no regime change, no sanctions, no lectures on democracy, just concrete steel, fiber optic and longterm contracts. So when people ask why China stays silent on Iran the answer is that silence is the strategy, every war America fights for Israel costs trillions, destabilizes energy markets, alienates Gulf partners and pushes the entire Global South closer to a system Beijing spent two decades building. The gulf states pivoting right now has zero to do with ideology, Washington turned their entire neighborhood into a warzone to serve Tel Aviv's regional strategy & then asked them to keep buying treasury bonds with a straight face….the math just stopped working and when the math stops working loyalty stops too. Beijing's silencee on Iran is the most patient & most devastating move on the board, China is watching america dismantle its own hegemony in real time while quietly inheriting every alliance washington burns, it just has to keep building & keep quiet. Napoleon said never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake, Xi turned that into a 50 year doctrine & right now it's paying off faster than even beijing expected.

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#USpol #China

Everyone losing their mind asking where is Beijing while the US & Israel are bombing a major chinese energy partner and the answer is so brutal in its simplicity that most analysts miss it completely, the empire is eating itself alive and China is already building the replacement. America just dragged the entire Middle East into a war for Israel & now Saudi arabia, UAE, kuwait & qatar are sitting in a room discussing pulling out of US contracts & canceling investment commitments. The Gulf states, the literal foundation of the petrodollar, the system that has kept the US dollar as world reserve currency since 1974 actively discussing the exit and Beijing did absolutely nothing to make that happen…Washington did it to itself. But here's what people miss: China saw this coming years ago and already laid the tracks, literally the belt & road Initiative has quietly wired 150 countries into c’hinese infrastructure, ports, railways, highways, fiber optic cables, power grids…while the western media barely covered it. Saudi Arabia started selling oil to China in yuan in 2023, that alone should have been front page news for a month, the BRICS just expanded to include Saudi arabia UAE and Iran in the same bloc, China built CIPS as a direct alternative to SWIFT so the entire non western world can settle trade without ever touching the dollar, every single one of these moves was made before a single bomb fell on Iran.

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Chris Wilding
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International rules-based order?! lol YouTube video by First Dog on the Moon

Hello cartoon fans here is another exciting spoken cartoon! youtu.be/rq3OGOWDhW8

International Bestseller Shlomo Sand The Invention of the Jewish People "Extravagantly denounced and praised" New York Times

Like Nazism, #Zionism is ethno-supremacism. Like Nazism, the 'ethnos' doesn't actually exist.

in 1975 UNGA Resolution 3379 declared Zionism to be racism. In 1991, the usual suspects had that declaration rescinded.

Emphasising one form of discrimination above all others is itself a form of discrimination. The disproportionate influence promotes hostility, which Zionists then exploit to further their ideology.
#AusPol #Zionism #censorship

Slingshots. Wiping out $BILLIONS in munitions, energy, and infrastructure. And Iran appears content to bide its time until we eventually run out of means to intercept their attacks. That's why the toughest guy in the room is usually the one who keeps his mouth shut, not the guy going around telling everyone how tough he is. Nobody roots for Goliath. And nobody goes around claiming to BE Goliath...unless they're unfamiliar with how the story ends.

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#USpol #Iran

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Rather than being operated by remote control, it has a pre-programmed flight path to a set target using a satellite navigation system. Because of its slim profile and ability to fly at low altitude, it's hard to detect by radar or early warning systems. These are the little buggers Russia is using to make a mess in Ukraine. And here's the ugly truth Trump and Hegseth can’t bring themselves to acknowledge: Iran reportedly has 80 THOUSAND of these stockpiled in underground bunkers all over the country. Unlike missiles, they're easily transported and can be launched undetected from the back of a pickup truck. Compared to America's interceptors, they're COMICALLY CHEAP to make—between $20k-$50k each. And they can be built incredibly fast (Russia's been producing 4,000-5,000 per month). So the big fear is that Iran could "unleash drone hell" any time it wants to...and there's not a whole lot the U.S. military could do about it. At the 2-to-1 interceptor rate America employs, Iran could theoretically deplete the entire U.S. interceptor stockpile with a little over 7,000 attacks. That would leave them a measly 72,000 more drones in reserve. IF they didn't produce any more. (For the math nerds out there, it would cost Iran $360 million to replace the drones it would take to deplete America's entire interceptor stockpile. It would cost America $39.5 Billion to replace those interceptors.) And THAT is probably the best explanation as to why Trump launched a war and then almost immediately demanded a ceasefire, to which Iran said "f*ck directly off!" For context as to just how much asymmetrical damage these drones can do, one of Iran's $30k attack drones took out Qatar's $1.1 billion ballistic missile tracking system. These little "gnats" have struck the U.S. 5th fleet in Bahrain, the U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and the fatal strike on a U.S. Army camp in Kuwait. And they're continuing to ignite oil fields, ports, and tankers throughout the region.

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THAAD rockets are even more expensive at $13-15.5 million each. They're built by Lockheed Martin, who only produce around 96 a year (though Lockheed just got a contract to ramp up production to 400 a year). Finally, the Aegis Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) costs a whopping $28 million a piece, though a "cheaper" option—the SM-6 is available in the $9-$10 mil range. Only a dozen SM-3 are produced a year. Production on the SM-6s are ramping up to 500 annually. I know that's a bunch of nitty-gritty boring detail, but the gist is this: the U.S. currently has somewhere in the ballpark of 3,600 interceptor missiles — 2,700 intended for slow moving drones, 900 for high speed ballistic missiles. HERE'S WHY THAT'S A HUGE PROBLEM Following the Israel-Iran 12-Day War (that's when we bombed Iran's three nuclear facilities), Israel estimated that Iran had 1,500 missiles and 200 launchers remaining. As of March 1, Iran had added another 1,000 missiles to their stockpile. And so far, that's what U.S. and Israeli strikes have been targeting. During the 12-Day War, the U.S. used between 100-150 THAADs, 80 SM-3s, and an unknown number of Patriots. If the U.S. uses interceptors at the same rate in this war, we'll burn through half our interceptors in 4-5 weeks. And if the war drags out until September like the White House and Pentagon are suggesting it might, we'd hypothetically deplete our entire interceptor stockpile. (I say "hypothetically" because the U.S. military would switch strategies and transition away from trying to intercept anything if we ever got that low.) ENTER THE SLINGSHOT When people hear "drone," they tend to think those handheld models with spinning copter blades people use for photography. The Shahed drone looks like a mini jet with an 8-foot wingspan. It has a range of 1,550 miles (2,500km), a top speed of 115 mph (185 kph), and packs a 66-110 lb warhead.

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#USpol #Iran

DAVID & GOLIATH: WHY THE U.S. COULD BE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST The problem with constantly touting yourself as the "biggest, strongest, most advanced" fighting force on earth is that you're automatically Goliath in any confrontation you get into. Sure, you'll notch a bunch of easy victories over inferior adversaries as you're running around trampling the countryside...and those easy victories might start giving you a false sense of confidence that maybe you're invincible. That's because you weren't considering any Davids out there. At some point, your 10-foot spear, 100-pound shield, and arrow-proof armor is gonna come up against a cheap-ass homemade slingshot and some river stones it was never built to deal with and has no idea how to handle. If you've been watching U.S. state TV, you've seen the propaganda: America's VASTLY SUPERIOR interceptor missiles are knocking down Iranian missiles and drones left and right. According to reports, something like 92% of Iranian drones and missiles have been intercepted. THE CURRENT U.S. ARSENAL U.S. Central Command estimates that Iran has fired 500 ballistic missiles and more than 2,000 drones since the war started a week ago (40% targeting Israel, 60% targeting the U.S.) According to Military Times, the U.S. employs three different missile interceptor systems: the Patriot missile defense system, Aegis Combat System (SM-3/SM-6) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile systems. As of Dec 2025, the U.S. had 414 SM-3s, ~1,500 SM-6s, 534 THAADs, and around 1,200 Patriots (a July report said the U.S. only had 25% of the Patriots the Pentagon needed for its plans). The U.S. only produces 500-700 Patriot missiles annually at a cost of $4 million each. And typical usage is to fire two interceptors per incoming target, meaning every single interception attempt is an $8-million affair. $8 million to take down a $20,000 drone.

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The Trumpland Diary
7 March 2026 18:25
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#USpol #Iran

[upside-down certification stamp, dated 19/05/2025] Mark Leibler @LeiblerMark Nothing, but nothing, is worse than those Jews who level totally unfounded allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the State of Israel. They are repulsive and revolting human beings. Their relatives who were murdered by the Nazis - the role models for Hamas - will undoubtedly be turning in their graves. Their avowed anti Zionism is clearly no more than a cover for the reality that they are vicious antisemites. 11:11PM - Feb 8, 2025 - 339.1K Views

True. Even of Jewish non-Zionists. 🤔 Perhaps more so of Jewish non-Zionists.
#Auspol #Zionism #censorship

To a Zionist, it makes you a lesser being.
#AusPol #Zionism #censorship

Maybe someone should run up a table of the degree of Zionism in educational institutions. A Hasbara ranking.
#censorship #AusPol #ForeignInfluence #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine

‘Settler colonialism’: What it can tell us about the conflict in Israel/Palestine YouTube video by Association for the Promotion of International Law

Video of the event that filled Norwood Concert Hall, after being cancelled by Adelaide University.
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Can Israel & the U.S. Sustain Iran's Military Power? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

“It’s for America to lose this war. Iran wins it by surviving …”
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The fog of war clears, just a little.
#USpol #Iran #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine

Iran's regime change unlikely but Trump's mess certain: Gulf states While the cabaret of outlandish and contradictory statements and claims continues in Washington, there is considerable pragmatic pessimism in the Gulf about the mess Donald Trump will leave behind.

“There is a high degree of confidence … that the US will just walk away at some point, showing no sense of responsibility for the mess.”
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