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To: Only Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong have the power to withdraw The Australian Government's current support for the US/Israeli attacks on Iran, in which over 10 primary schoolgirls were among the first victims.
WITHDRAW AUSTRALIAN SUPPORT FOR THE ILLEGAL AGGRESSION AGAINST IRAN
Dear Prime Minister
I have been a strong supporter of Labor since I settled in Australia in 1973. And I have accepted that even with a massive majority you cannot immediately fix all the problems which successive Coalition governments have inflicted. But I must express my strong disagreement with the support which you and Foreign Minister Wong have put behind Mr Trump's attacks on Iran. (1) He himself ripped up a treaty which President Obama had negotiated with that country, and by doing so led their government to resume nuclear development (2) the attacks are illegal, since they were not approved by Congress, and they violate several international agreements, the most important of which is the United Nations Charter. (3) the USA has attempted forcible regime change in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan (in each case with support from Australian Coalition governments). Each invasion has caused death and suffering and has left the people of the country worse off. (3) Mr Trump is acting in co-ordination with Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is credibly accused of war crimes and genocide. (4) Iran and the world are certainly better without the Ayatollah, but the 19-year rule of his religious fanatics was directly caused by the United States, when it toppled a legitimate, democratically elected government and installed the Shah, whose persecution, oppression and torture of his subjects led in turn to the insurrection which put the extreme Islamists in power. Mr Trump may even try to install the younger Pahlavi; in any case Iran will be in chaos. (5) I note that Spain, Norway and other western democracies have conspicuously declined to support Mr Trump's aggression, which may indeed have been prompted by the rapid erosion of his support base in the USA and his increasing inability to prevent fuller publication of the Epstein files.
I simply cannot understand how you and Senator Wong, two leaders in whom I have up till now had the upmost confidence (especially in the light of your successful rebuilding of relationships with our Pacific neighbours), could have made a decision which seems to me to be fundamentally wrong.
Your petitioners therefore call on you and the Foreign Minister to abandon all support for the aggression by the USA and Israel against Iran, and state clearly that Australia regards that aggression as an illegal, clear breach of the United Nations charter.
Your petitioners therefore call on you and the Foreign Minister to abandon all support for the aggression by the USA and Israel against Iran, and state clearly that Australia regards that aggression as an illegal, clear breach of the United Nations charter.
Why is this important?
This matters to all Australians. Coalition Prime Ministers have in past decades dispatched our soldiers and Air Force to support invasions by the USA of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. In every case these invasions were accompanied by false or misleading propaganda, and in every case they were disastrous; far from establishing working democracies favourable to western interests, they were decisively defeated in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and have led to chaotic internal politics in Iraq. Australian lives were lost or permanently damaged supporting these invasions, not to mention the deaths and suffering inflicted on the local population of each country.
The Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam withdrew Australian troops from Vietnam as soon as possible after taking office. But now we have a new Labor Prime Minister, Antony Albanese, declaring support for yet another dangerous military venture, this time led by a corrupt and erratic US President and an accused war criminal Prime Minister of Israel. We must ask him to withdraw that support, otherwise Australia may be involved in yet another disastrous conflict, this time a conflagration which threatens to engulf the entire Middle East.
The Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam withdrew Australian troops from Vietnam as soon as possible after taking office. But now we have a new Labor Prime Minister, Antony Albanese, declaring support for yet another dangerous military venture, this time led by a corrupt and erratic US President and an accused war criminal Prime Minister of Israel. We must ask him to withdraw that support, otherwise Australia may be involved in yet another disastrous conflict, this time a conflagration which threatens to engulf the entire Middle East.