Kirt in Queensland<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> needs to remove <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> from Australia's "Listed <a href="https://aus.social/tags/terrorist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorist</span></a> organisations", we need to stop endorsing Israel's attacks on CIVILIAN government run essential services in Gaza. </p><p>Israel see our "terrorist" designation of the entire Hamas moment as endorsement of their treatment of civilian emergency services as military targets – paramedics, firemen, and other people who save lives – because they are "Hamas" by being connected to government run services in Gaza.</p><p>At the very least Australia need to narrow the listing to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Qassam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Qassam</span></a> Brigades militant wing of the Hamas movement. But even this would be difficult to justify. Hamas are NOT a threat to Australia, and the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> have killed more Australian citizens than Hamas in the current war, including a civilian from <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sydney</span></a> in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lebanon</span></a> and an Australian aid worker in Gaza.</p><p>It is insane that we have condemned an entire, mostly civilian, government as <a href="https://aus.social/tags/terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorists</span></a> while allowing Likud – the successor party to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Irgun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Irgun</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Lehi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lehi</span></a> terror groups – to drive <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> into <a href="https://aus.social/tags/genocidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocidal</span></a> fascism without equivalent consequences. </p><p>The Lehi and Irgun were definitively <a href="https://aus.social/tags/terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorists</span></a> – Likud first formed government under former Irgun commander Menachem Begin and his successor was former Lehi commander Yitzhak Shamir – but really the Lehi and Irgun were nowhere near as bad as the IDF.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p>