Mark Newton@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net
Richard Marles repeated claims that Australia is not supplying weapons to Israel is transparent bullshit.
The claim relies on the assertion that "weapons" would be ammunition or guns or missiles, not wheel bearings for landing gear, or replacement spars for rudders or somesuch.
The reason the claim falls to pieces before it's finished coming out of his mouth is because THE ENTIRE F-35 IS A WEAPON. That's how the Air Force considers it, that's how the law considers it, and that's certainly how the people being exterminated by the bombs it drops consider it.
If you have an F-35 out of service because one of its bearings has disintegrated, and Australia supplies the replacement bearing, and then the F-35 launches on a mission to bomb Gaza and kills 35 babies, are there any semantic twists which enable Australia to satisfy itself that it hasn't been a crucial enabler of Israel's mission to incinerate Palestinian babies?
It's absolute nonsense, and he shouldn't be able to get away with it.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/aug/10/australia-news-live-anthony-albanese-israel-gaza-war-richard-marles-jeremy-rockliff-tasmania-greyhound-racing-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6897da6f8f08bfc62530d461#block-6897da6f8f08bfc62530d461