Witty Rejoinder said:
ms spock said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I’ll read but i won’t respond if you’re afraid of supplying evidence for your assertions.
It’s not about being afraid. It’s about MSM refusing to cover the billions of Australian taxpayers dollars being sent to Israel. The fear of Zionist Supremacists is strong and overwhelming.
It’s just not credible. The amount you cite is five times Australia’s total foreign aid budget and is fifty times Australia’s exports to Israel. This got a mention in Michael West media so it’s received some coverage but a supposed cabinet leak has not approached larger media organisations with definite proof? And how many people would have to be complicit: the Greens hate Israel but they’ve not brought it up under parliamentary privilege?
The truth is bad enough without needing to make up lies about it.
The 22 billion from Spocky’s first post on this subject today looks to be what the US has put into Israel’s recent wars-
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/10/7/reports-israel-couldnt-wage-wars-on-gaza-lebanon-iran-without-us-support
The $725 million ‘offshore procurement’ and the 4.4 billion ‘replenishing arms delivered to Israel from US stocks’…(not sure if Australia produces missiles so I didn’t include the 5 billion from that column) ….I wonder what percentage of this be would sales from private Australian weapons companies which go to the US and then on to Israel. From my reading from the links from Spocky’s initial post about this a few days back, the Labor government wound back some of the supplies going to Israel via private companies, which were done under the Morrison government. I expect it might be difficult to wind back all of it without compensation? And perhaps these private companies supply our military as well and they get to test them (on so many civilians, that is the truly disgusting and horrifying aspect). I would guess Australia’s percentage of this 5.1ish billion would not be large. I shall have to reread the Michael West article.
I would like to know more about the ‘billions and billions of Australian taxpayers money has been sent to Israel’ though. Does some of the 8.12 billion from the ‘foreign military funding’ part of this graph involve the Australian military? Finding out just what this involves might be a security issue for Australia?
So many questions.
So many tangled webs.
(As an aside, I’m super happy that the NSW government’s protest laws enacted after Bondi have been struck down….will be hopping on the train with friends to go to the next protest!)