Federal Labor Thinks Its Election Victory Vindicates Its Stance on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Key minister of the returned Albanese government Penny Wong told the Herald late last week that she considers the landslide victory her party received at the 3 May 2025 federal election as vindicating the “balanced and moderate policy” Labor took to the issue of the heinousness mass slaughter Israel is perpetrating upon the Palestinian civilians of Gaza to be the correct approach.

“A clear lesson from the election is that Australians don’t want political leaders to amplify overseas conflict for their own purposes,” said Wong, as she further advocated that the constituency should be less caught up in a genocide because it is occurring overseas and seemingly not linked to this country – mind you, this is the foreign minister suggesting we pay less attention to foreign affairs.

As for PM Anthony Albanese, he told Sky News that he’s aware that “Australians know that the Australian government is not responsible for what has occurred in the Middle East”, and he too charged certain elements as having taken an opportunistic approach to Gaza, in particular, protesters at his office, who were calling out his consistent dismissing and downplaying of the mass killings.

These types of dullard points being progressed by our government rely on the public not being aware of the true legal obligations of any genocide for Australia, and they almost sound plausible when the mass atrocities are framed as a “Middle Eastern conflict”, while both our prime and foreign ministers are encouraging the constituency to dumb down even further when it comes to events overseas.

But the truth is, the Albanese government has taken an extreme position on Gaza, as it’s claimed Israel has merely been defending itself, while mass murdering civilians it occupies, the government has lied about supplying arms to Israel during the holocaust in Gaza, and as the illegal atrocities in The Strip are only now set to escalate, Labor is planning to continue on with its complicity.

Talking political opportunism

In the recent Herald piece, Wong suggests that the Greens and the Liberals distorted facts around Gaza to achieve a political advantage, but likely the most elaborate twisting of the truth surrounding the full-scale genocide being perpetrated in Gaza was Albanese joining the chorus of other western leaders during the first months of the slaughter to proclaim that Israel was simply defending itself.

Labor came to power in 2022 on a platform that included recognising Palestine as a state. The 2018 resolution that led to this party position was championed by Wong. If Palestine was officially internationally recognised as a state, this would mean that the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Gaza and the West Bank, would no longer be under Israeli occupation and control.

Both the current foreign minister and Albanese had long been supporters of the Palestinian cause, and thus, were well aware that to claim the massive attack Israel launched on Gaza in October 2023, which included the mass killing of thousands children, to be self-defence wasn’t possible under international law, because the occupiers were slaughtering occupied people on occupied territory.

So, in terms of Albanese, Wong and Labor having gone along with the “self-defence” excuse regarding Israel’s actions involved the spreading of “false information”, and Labor was obviously engaged in propagating a distortion of the facts in terms of the legality of Tel Aviv’s actions, as it was politically expedient to do so, in terms of our nation’s allies, as well as on the domestic front.

Albanese’s claim that “Australians know that the Australian government is not responsible for what has occurred in the Middle East” is also a distortion of the truth, which has developed into a running theme on local airways since the return of Labor on 3 May, as multiple media hosts have been raising and scoffing at the idea that local politicians could be complicit in an overseas genocide.

Yet, local politicians can be because in 1949, Australia ratified the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and article 1 of the agreement stipulates that nations that have ratified it have confirmed that “genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish”.

So, rather than honestly inform the nation that it has a legal obligation to end any genocide, the Albanese government has participated in a western conspiracy to provide cover for Israel in its commission of the most despicable crime the globe has ever seen livestreamed 24/7, and this course of action, also leaves out the understanding that Labor is complicit in the genocide via its inaction.

On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s operations in Gaza are plausibly a genocide, and so if there was any doubt about whether it ought to pull back on its ongoing support for Israel over this time, federal Labor should probably have taken notice of this cue from the highest criminal authority on the planet.

Complicit and opportunistic

Wong considers that the position on Gaza that the Greens and the Liberals took cost both parties at the ballot box earlier this month.

But while the correlation between the Coalition losing the election and its politicking around Gaza is not so clear, what does appear to be is that the Liberals did distort the truth about the situation for political advantage, as party members repeatedly chastised Labor for being too soft in terms of its policies and position in regard to the genocide, despite the hardline that the government took on it.

In turning to the Greens, however, the issues raised in the recent Herald article are that the minor party, in having charged Labor with genocide complicity and selling arms to Israel during its mass killing of children, women and men, were somehow spreading misinformation for political gain, when the party was actually telling the truth.

For her part, Wong vehemently denied that this country had exported any weapons or weapons components to Israel for the past five years prior to the outbreak of the genocide.

Yet, this “false information” that was spread by the foreign minister and her colleagues has eventually fallen down, as evidence of Australian-made weapons components,  entire weapons systems, and dual use items having made their way into Israeli military hands during the genocide, has been uncovered, for the most part of late because the evidence had been so well hidden.

These revelations not only show the disinformation that the Albanese regime has been dealing in when it comes to Gaza, but it further escalates the levels of complicity federal Labor has been engaging in when it comes to the Gaza genocide: the greatest crime since the World War II Holocaust.

Lives worth more than votes

Another grave irony in respect of Albanese and Wong patting themselves on the back in having pulled off a landslide victory, whilst at the same time encouraging the Australian public to look the other way during a mass slaughter of innocent kids, is that right now the International Criminal Court has an official genocide complicity claim against the Australian PM and foreign minister on file.

Australian law firm Birchgrove Legal provided ICC prosecutor Karim Kahn with a 92 page claim of genocide complicity in March 2024, which details evidence against Australian pollies. Two of these MPs were Albanese and Wong, who have four instances of genocide complicity attributed to each of them, while three other Labor MPs were implicated, as well as then Liberal leader Peter Dutton.

Appearing on Q&A last Monday night, Australian Financial Review editor Michael Stutchbury was also selling the idea that Australians had voted at the ballot to keep “terrible ancient feuds from the other side of the world brought back into the streets of Australia”, and then he suggested the “Greens probably got a bit burnt on that – going a little bit far”.

However, Greens Senator David Shoebridge replied that rather than being injured, his party had “connected with millions who wanted our government to do everything they could to stop the genocide”.

“This isn’t about a political stance,” Shoebridge clarified.

“This is about when you see a genocide happening in real time on your phone and on your TV, when you see thousands of children being killed, when you see starvation being used as a weapon of war, you have a basic human responsibility to do everything you can to stop it and if you take a political hit because you do that… well, you take the political hit.”