PM Says, ‘No Comment”, as Wanted War Criminal and Convicted Felon Spruik Genocide

Convicted felon US president Donald Trump and internationally wanted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, stood before reporters during a 4 February White House press conference, which saw these two fugitives conspiring to escalate the genocide of the Palestinians in clear violation of international law, in plain sight of the entire global community.

Trump laid out the plans the United States has for Gaza with rhetoric that suggested that Palestinians would be removed to “a beautiful area to resettle… permanently in nice homes” in third countries, as if he was doing Gazans a favour, while “dangerous unexploded bombs” would be removed from the site, which the US would then develop into a “Riviera of the Middle East”.

These plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians come at a point in time when the region has been under the genocidal attack of Israel for 16 months, which includes the starvation of the entire 2.3 million Palestinians of Gaza, and human rights experts are underscoring that if such measures are taken, the overall act of displacing these Palestinians would constitute “completing the genocide”.

In response, Anthony Albanese told the press he would not comment, as to whether he approved of the blatantly illegal plot proposed to the globe, and then when pushed, he added that his government continues to support a two-state solution, while potential next PM, Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton, said on Thursday, that Trump’s plan was “shrewd” and not “unreasonable”.

So, as many in the Australian constituency are fretting over the fate of the Gazans, the collapse of international law and the fact that this nation is closely allied to both these rogue states, our leaders appear either none too fazed by the prospect of an open US declaration to continue to facilitate a genocide, or else, they consider the killing off of Palestinians to obtain land quite reasonable.

A gargantuan criminal conspiracy

“We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal. And I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy,” said US president Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. “But the Riviera of the Middle East, this could be something that could be so – this could be so magnificent.”

The callousness of the way in which the US president casually suggested that the Palestinian people of Gaza be removed from their homeland, which they’ve resisted leaving despite a genocidal onslaught of bombings, ground attacks and denial of the basic necessities that preserve life over the last 16 months, has heightened the criminality of the unlawful plot laid out before the planet.

Both Israel and the US are a party to the 1948 Genocide Convention, and both nations have clearly been in breach of it since the genocide in Gaza commenced in October 2023, and while ethnic cleansing is not a specific offence in international law, it is captured under the crimes against humanity contained in the 2002 Rome Statute, of which neither the US or Israel is a party to.

“But everybody feels that continuing the same process that’s gone on forever over and over again and then it starts and then the killing starts, and all of the other problems start, and you end up in the same place and we don’t want to see that happen,” Trump said in providing a sanitised rationalisation for the continued genociding of the Palestinians of Gaza.

Indeed, the simple setting out of these plans by Trump and Netanyahu on the international stage is likely in breach of the Genocide Convention, as instead of attempting to end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza as required under global law, the sentiments being propagated advocate for the expedition of the commission of the gravest criminal offence of all.

Another disturbing fact about the whole scenario is that when asked if he proposed to evacuate “all of the Gazans” from The Strip, Trump responded in the affirmative with “we’re talking about probably a million seven people, maybe a million eight”, which is a dramatically depleted estimate of the 2.3 million Gazans of October 2023, despite the official death toll being close to 62,000 dead.

Complicit in genocide

When quizzed on the Trump proposal to evict the Palestinians from their land in Gaza, effectively destroying that ‘group’s’ way of being, after the now entirely malnourished civilian population has been under high-tech military assault since October 2023, PM Albanese said, “I’ve said before that I don’t intend to have a running commentary on the president of the United States’ statements.”

Then as the reporter continued to push, the top minister added, “What I would say is that Australia’s position is the same as it was this morning, as it was last year, and it was 10 years ago, and it was under the Howard Government. The Australian government support, on a bipartisan basis, a two-state solution in the Middle East.”

But these responses don’t cut it in the current political climate, when this nation’s closest ally has ganged up with the disgraced and genocidal Israeli state to not only supply the financing and the arsenal of weapons anymore, but to further take a leading role in the completion of the Israeli state’s settler colonial slaughter, which has the end goal of erasing the Palestinians from Gaza.

Albanese was able to respond in such a casual manner, due to the flippant way in which Trump delivered his criminal plot to the globe.

However, what this nation would expected from its PM at a point in time when its closest ally is suggesting the commission of genocide, is the condemnation of this plan, otherwise, under the terms of the convention, Albanese is too complicit in the genocidal proposal.

Meanwhile, the potential next leader of our nation, Peter Dutton, in his praising of Trump, as a “big thinker and deal maker”, whose genocidal plan is not only “shrewd” but reasonable, has clearly spoken criminally as these words provide the US president with cover to commit the planned completion of the genocide.

The soft colonisation of Australia

Since Trump’s criminal Gaza announcement, local social media pages have been awash with Australians raising concerns about our country continuing to be such a close ally of the US that we simply follow its foreign policy lead, as this closeness is now being ever-increasingly tightened via the establishment of the AUKUS pact, between the US, the UK and Australia, in September 2021.

In fact, despite the Coalition having heralded in AUKUS, the Albanese government, over its term in office, expediated US inroads onto this continent like never before. The US has been building up its military presence and its local arsenal, it’s been renovating local bases in order to deploy its own jets and submarines, as well as having designated our country as a domestic military source in law.

Regular Australians are now calling for the withdrawal from AUKUS for fear that Trump’s latest proposal might require this nation’s military to play a role in the proposed completion of the Gaza genocide, however others have been warning that the AUKUS developments over the last three years have signalled something of a soft colonisation of northern Australia.

Since Trump came to power, he’s already been hinting about taking over and colonising the nation of Canada, a close ally, and the territory of Greenland, which is currently under the jurisdiction of another ally, the nation of Denmark, and the once absurd concept of a US takeover of this continent is now emerging as a very real fear amongst sectors of the Australian constituency.

So, the message now being conveyed to the leaders of this nation from grassroots constituents is that Trump’s Gaza announcement is likely the last chance this nation has to pull out of the AUKUS alliance before it gets too embroiled in a criminal plot to the point of no return.