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Australia's Defence Department has refused a Freedom of Information request about the details of an arms deal with Israel on the grounds that such information "could harm Australia's international standing and reputation," which suggests the details must be pretty damning.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Dancing outside the concentration camp,

rave music pounding through our bones like bombs.

A disco at the genocide, baby.

A disco at the genocide.

Twerking outside the open-air prison.

Raving while Gaza asphyxiates.

Twirling glow sticks while a Final Solution is planned.

Just an innocent bit of fun.

Chill out and dance outside the concentration camp.

What could possibly go wrong?

We've got the IDF looking after us.

They'd never let anything bad happen.

So dance while the Palestinians are squeezed to death.

Dance while the polar ice caps melt.

Dance while the oceans fill with plastic.

Dance while the rainforests disappear.

Dance while nuclear warheads are primed.

Dance while mothers scream impossible screams.

Dance while the arms industry reaps record profits.

Dance while fathers pick up pieces of their kids.

Dance while AI helps exterminate families.

Dance while Gazans dehydrate under rubble.

Dance while limbs are amputated without anaesthesia.

Dance while death machines patrol the sky.

Dance while the news man fills our heads with lies.

Dance while the podium man denies everything he sees.

Dance while the sharptooth manipulators scheme.

Dance while our minds are turned into machines.

Dance to the beat of imperial psytrance.

Dance to the beat of the Pentagon Polka.

What could possibly go wrong?

Dance outside the concentration camp.

A disco at the genocide, baby.

A disco at the genocide.

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Reading by Tim Foley.

We cannot allow them to neuter this political moment with spin and propaganda.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel has generously and compassionately reopened the Erez crossing to allow aid into Gaza, as it is the only way to ensure that the US will keep sending them weapons to kill the people in Gaza.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel isn't being "forced" to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Stop telling us about the president’s feelings. Stop telling us he’s “angry” and “frustrated” with Israel. No one cares. Nobody gives a shit how Biden’s feelings feel about the government he’s helping carry out a genocide. All that matters is that he’s helping them commit genocide.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Six months of this now. Half a year.

Half a year of genocide apologia.

Half a year of the most outrageous lies you can possibly imagine.

Half a year of seeing children's bodies ripped to pieces and starved to skeletons on our social media feeds.

Reading by Tim Foley.

In the span of just a few hours we learned that Israel committed a horrific massacre at al-Shifa hospital, struck an Iranian consulate in Syria killing multiple Iranian military officers, and killed a vehicle full of international aid workers in an airstrike. This murderous regime is out of control.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel has ended its assault on the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, because there is nothing left to assault. The facility - the largest medical complex in Gaza where hundreds of civilians had been sheltering - is now an empty, unusable, burnt-out husk. Witnesses report hundreds of corpses in and around the complex, with video footage showing human body parts protruding from the earth and bodies with zip ties on their wrists.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Zionist plan for the Palestinians is to kill them and drive them off their land by whatever cruelty is necessary, with the understanding that one day people will look back on it in the same way they look back on the genocides of other indigenous populations, saying "Yeah it was bad, but that was in the past so there's nothing we can do about it."

Reading by Tim Foley.