Slashing UNRWA funding will deepen an already dire humanitarian crisis, while walking away from the UN Human Rights Council sends a dangerous signal that human rights abuses will go unchallenged.
The Albanese government must take a stand and forcefully condemn this shameful move instead of sitting idly by while President Trump makes one cruel disastrous decision after another.
Labor cannot just wring its hands and look the other way. Australia must step up where the US is failing—by increasing its contributions to UNRWA to ensure services continue, and by reaffirming its commitment to the UN Human Rights Council to defend international law and fundamental freedoms.
The Albanese Government has been complicit in genocide and timid as a mouse when it comes to calling out Israel’s atrocities, but surely even they must denounce the utter madness of Trump’s comments that the US will own and run the Gaza strip.
Silence or inaction in the face of these horrific decisions from the US, which our government calls “one of our closest allies”, would make Australia complicit in the suffering that will inevitably follow.
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