#Australia needs to remove #Hamas from Australia's "Listed #terrorist organisations", we need to stop endorsing Israel's attacks on CIVILIAN government run essential services in Gaza.
Israel see our "terrorist" designation of the entire Hamas moment as endorsement of their treatment of civilian emergency services as military targets – paramedics, firemen, and other people who save lives – because they are "Hamas" by being connected to government run services in Gaza.
At the very least Australia need to narrow the listing to the #Qassam Brigades militant wing of the Hamas movement. But even this would be difficult to justify. Hamas are NOT a threat to Australia, and the #IDF have killed more Australian citizens than Hamas in the current war, including a civilian from #Sydney in #Lebanon and an Australian aid worker in Gaza.
It is insane that we have condemned an entire, mostly civilian, government as #terrorists while allowing Likud – the successor party to the #Irgun and #Lehi terror groups – to drive #Israel into #genocidal fascism without equivalent consequences.
The Lehi and Irgun were definitively #terrorists – Likud first formed government under former Irgun commander Menachem Begin and his successor was former Lehi commander Yitzhak Shamir – but really the Lehi and Irgun were nowhere near as bad as the IDF.