1. Palestinians need support from the general population in most countries to lift their spirits. The union movement is easily the biggest and most effective political entity outside parliament on the progressive side of politics. They love the support of the powerful union movement has provided to hold public meetings and show films.
I've addressed rallies delineating how effective Aus PAN and TasPAN have been in soliciting support, in terms of facilitating meetings with some significant movers and shakers in the union movement, who have been won over to their cause. The TasPAN and AusPAN members feel like they have no national governments in support outside South American countries. APHEDA ( union aid abroad) is doing critical work in Gaza to support Palestinians. The union movement, particularly my union, the Aus Education Union, have provided some big cash donations.
2. To take away Palestine's homeland, bombed, into oblivion by Israel, with weapons provided by the US for Israel to play police officer to their enemies, like Iran in the ME, is repudiated by Palestinians. There is support in the Arab nation for Palestine all the way from Morocco to Iraq. Instead the US should be offering to rebuild Palestine for Palestinians, and coerce Netanyahu, not to attack Gaza anymore.
Initially, I abhorred what Hamas did to Israelis in October 2023 and took many months to get involved. However, when Israel kept a genocide going against Gazan civilians, and hospitals, I joined the Palestinian support movement. The way many of us think of it, is a peace, or anti-war movement.
If Palestine had overwhelming military might, like Israel currently has, and did the same to Israel , obliterating it, we would be opposing that too.
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