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Simon Birmingham is again pressed on whether the world will accept continuing civilian deaths of such a scale amid the Israel-Hamas war.
He told ABC RN there will “no doubt” be huge scrutiny in relation to this conflict:
Indeed, arguably, Israel has faced disproportionate scrutiny around human rights issues compared with many many other challenges right around the world…
… I fully expect that many more qualified than me will seek to assess in terms of the laws broken by Hamas, issues in terms of how this conflict and war unfold, but we shouldn’t be drawing any type of moral equivalence between Israel, in their efforts to try to remove a terrorist actor who initiated this conflict in such…
(He was cut off before finishing that sentence).
Birmingham said he “dearly wish[es] not to see any child face the loss of their life in war torn situations”, but “there is also the reality that the loss of innocent lives does occur in wars”.
How those wars are fought is important and in this case, why the war is being fought should not be forgotten by anybody in terms of that need to remove a terrorist entity like Hamas.
5m ago17.36 EDT
ABC RN host Patricia Karvelas:
1000 children are dying a week, is that acceptable?
Liberal senator Simon Birmingham:
It’s a tragedy, Patricia, it’s a tragedy and the loss of innocent lives, be they Palestinian lives, Jewish lives or any other lives, it’s always a tragedy.
It’s hard to comprehend in terms of the heartbreak that has been caused by Hamas’ actions and consequent actions to remove Hamas from power. But removing Hamas from power is a prerequisite for ensuring that Israel doesn’t face the type of attacks again in the future, and a prerequisite for Palestinian people’s having a chance of peace, a chance of leadership that could engage in negotiations that we would all wish one day in the future to see Israelis and Palestinians able to live peacefully side by side.
8m ago17.33 EDT
Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham spoke to ABC RN earlier about the Israel-Hamas war.
Asked about comments made by foreign minister Penny Wong that the world will not accept continuing civilian deaths, Birmingham replied that “tragically, there are civilian deaths that occur as a result of war”.
…and the war to remove Hamas from a position in which it was able to strike Israel and undertake the appalling terrorist…
2023-10-31 16:25:25
Article from www.theguardian.com
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