The Greens have said Labor\u2019s move towards the Greens\u2019 consistently advocated position for an immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefire proved the minor party right from the beginning, but have criticised Labor for allowing tens of thousands of people to be killed in Gaza before starting to recognise the reality of the unfolding genocide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say Labor must now start to implement the Greens\u2019 calls for sanctions on the extremist Netanyahu government, and commit to actioning arrest warrants issued by the ICC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adam Bandt MP, Leader of the Australian Greens:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor is recognising the Greens were right all along to call for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, but tragically tens of thousands of people have been killed in Gaza in the meantime. \u201cSince the Greens first called for a ceasefire, Gaza has been levelled, its health system has totally collapsed and a genocide is unfolding, while international courts have issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and found apartheid is being committed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow Labor must do what the Greens have been calling for and put real pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the invasion, starting with sanctions on his extremist government and ending the two-way arms trade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greens Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Senator Jordon Steele-John:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a move in the right direction but it must now be backed with action to pressure The State of Israel into complying with international law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor has resisted supporting an unconditional ceasefire for too long while tens of thousands have been killed and the extremist Netanyahu government has crossed every red line set out by the International Community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis government must end its opposition to applying sanctions to members of the State of Israel\u2019s government including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAustralia must now show leadership by joining South Africa\u2019s case at the international Court of Justice and by stopping the two-way arms trade with Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere is a genocide occurring in Gaza right now and we cannot afford not to act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have said Labor\u2019s move towards the Greens\u2019 consistently advocated position for an immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefire proved the minor party right from the beginning, but have criticised Labor for allowing tens of thousands of people to be killed in Gaza before starting to recognise the reality of the unfolding genocide. The Greens … Continue reading “Labor finally shifts towards Greens position after tens of thousands killed in Gaza”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30582,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581\/revisions\/30582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cThe Greens opposed the invasion of Gaza from the beginning, and consistently called for an immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefire. Labor attacked us, backed the invasion and refused to call for Benjamin Netanyahu to simply stop, but today Labor\u2019s position has been exposed for the mistake it always was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n