Great article. All of us who can should be looking at ways of growing food by ourselves or with others and organising in our communities. The food situation is not going to improve seeing what is happening supply and climate wise. We must ask our state governments, councils and other local authorities and organisations to support, prepare and set up community gardens and similar systems so that at least the most vulnerable (which will increase) have access to fresh food they can afford. We should no longer just see this as niche practice. We are lucky in Australia we still have quite a lot of open space available which we should use for habitat for native species and to grow food.

You are selecting the bits that agree with you.

Keep reading: https://imeu.org/resources/resources/fact-sheet-palestinian-citizens-of-israel/229

Not convincing. Read, if you like, this report which is just one of many we can find online on the situation of Israeli Arabs and which is not written by any Palestinian organisation which you might consider biased: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel

Looks a lot like AI-assisted hasbara to me.

You forget to mention that Hamas has been funded and seen as an asset by Israel many times to create division among Palestinians and therefore ensuring less of a chance of creating a Palestinian state.

Despite all the details you provide about Hamas you make a short comment about the ‘bad stuff’ that Israel has done. And what Israel has done is much more egregious not only in terms of the number of innocent lives maimed, tortured and annihilated but through the manipulation of Palestinian leadership and brazen scorched earth policy so that Palestinians can never have their homes back. The Zionist regime and supporters (settlers and non-settlers) steal what is not theirs through sheer techno savagery and now, oh dear, they are tasting some of their own medicine.

The supremacist Zionist government treats Palestinians with the same contempt that Nazis treated Jews. The supremacist Nazis dispossessed Jews of their homes, used them for menial labour, herded them into crowded camps in which they were mistreated and killed. The supremacist Nazis, in fact, thought they were superior to anyone who wasn’t Aryan and extended their invasion to neighbouring countries so they could take over & have more room to breed the ‘master race’. Does this sound familiar?

Resistance groups fought on because they knew the war wasn’t over.

Well, if you haven’t noticed, I can assure you that the war in the ME and Western Asia is not over so Israel and allies will find that resistance will continue. Btw, why would Germans blow up busses and Poles shoot rockets today? They have their sovereign countries back. The Palestinians, Lebanese and others do not, so, they will continue to fight back invaders and thieves.

The only way this conflict can end, is to make the locals talk to each other, and work together on figuring out a way to coexist and prosper.

Really? As you have contacts in Israel how about you ask them? How about asking the Netanyahu govt nicely, you know, the one which has pledged that there will never be a Palestinian State and which has done all in it power to dismantle a two-state solution?

Tell me, could you coexist and prosper with a neighbour who had thrown you out of your own home, trashed it and treats you with evil cruelty? Don’t you think that neighbour would have to give you your home back, pay you for the damage done and admit their actions were wrong before you could live side by side amicably?

I could write a longer spiel and give you some references but I haven’t got the time. War is horror. Those who pay the worst price are the innocent children, women and men who just want to live their lives as you no doubt do. We are dripping with the bloody, visual proof of war crimes almost daily on our screens because of the sickness of our political and economic systems and the sense of entitlement of our so-called ‘elites’. We too have to figure out how to coexist and prosper so we better work out different systems.

There would be no Hamas if Israel had not done what it has been doing to the Palestinians since the 1940s. At least 100,000 Palestinians killed, many of them children, not to mention the maimed and wounded and the vile treatment they receive every day of their lives. Israel continues to raze villages in Palestine, right now, during a so-called ceasefire. Let’s see how they keep to the one with Lebanon. Israel is not exactly known for keeping their word.

Do you mean to tell me you would expect resistance fighters to advertise their whereabouts to those who openly state they want to obliterate them and steal their land?

Resistance fighters during WW2 employed all manner of ploys to get back at Nazi invaders in various European countries. They were seen and written up as heroic. However, if Palestinian, Lebanese or other non-European resistance forces ‘resist’ they are to be seen as war criminals?

You advertise what you are with your little watermelon-eating avatar. Malignant, genocidal and possibly psychopathic. Your samskaras?

What do you mean?

Plants are staples for everyone. The so-called Western diet, despite it being so meat-centric, still relies heavily on wheat, soy and corn in the form of bread and as components of processed foods. In developing countries legumes, nuts and seeds are major sources of protein. In India, practicing Hindus in their millions are vegetarian and rely on legumes and dairy for their protein.

Being an autonomous territory of Denmark, Greenland is not seen as a sovereign country I guess.

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😆 Neither.

Why the sarcasm? Just because I don’t use a service does not mean I’m a not interested in discussing what is happening in society. I don’t drive trucks but I’ve also put up a post about electric trucks and other similar posts. If we were all just interested in what affects us personally our society would be even more selfish and dysfunctional than capitalism encourages it to be. Mate, you seem to have a hate problem. Hate is bad for mental and physical health.

Wow, pretty impressive! With the petrol situation not going to improve any time soon and climate action desperately needed this is an opportune time for governments to get input from commuters such as yourself throughout Australia and start transforming our PT systems according to the needs of different population centres.

I think your last point about the faulty one CBD model was already recognised long ago. Sydney has 3 major business/admin centres: city centre, North Sydney and Parramatta. I haven’t lived in Sydney for a while so there may be more for all I know. There’s probably similar set ups in other cities but I don’t personally know.

I’m also in Qld in a rural area and have also heard the 50c fares have been taken up well in Brisbane.

I reckon that happens to a lot of people. Australia has always been really car-centric unless you are in the city and even there outer suburbs often don’t have much choice.

Fleur, I don’t know if you’re talking to me again or not, but just in case you are, I live in a rural area where buses are few and far between and I’d have to drive to get to a bus if I wanted one, so I have to use a car. Luckily I don’t have to do much driving.

And it needs to do that by improving, not by simply adding barriers to alternatives.

What improvements would you recommend? This is important. More ideas need to be discussed.

Agree.

Ok, now I understand what meme you might be referring to (if that’s what’s happening) but please understand that not all people know about all the memes that are bandied about. Let’s be civil to each other. I could be your grandmother and I am sure she would not know about the meme.

Sorry I should have been clearer. Some people will not leave Google no matter what you say to them but if they have children they should know about independent sites such as Children and Media Australia and what to do about children’s apps.

You can f*** me as much as you like but I can’t bring free transit to NSW and you are displaying a great deal of ignorance.