It's not even subtle racism is it and events this week have underlined it

There's not even a pretense that Palestinian life has equal worth or any worth really at all from the likes of our Prime Minister Kistama and from other

politicians and media outlets. The other conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, both hideous,

are happening at the same time, has offered a brutally candid comparison of whose lives matter and

whose don't.

If describing Gaza that is as a conflict is accurate or appropriate given how one-sided it is a genocide or rampage by Israel is a more accurate way of framing it.

None of this, none of this by the way is to belittle the value of Ukrainian life.

We are not guilty of the same sins as our opponents. As I've been

clear from the start, Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine.

It is committing hideous war crimes. Vladimir Putin is a despicable war criminal and he should rot in the Hague for the rest of his life as far as I'm concerned.

The point is Western leaders have no problems whatsoever in condemning those war crimes.

Indeed a key distinction is that Russia is an official

enemy of the West. The West does not arm Russia or legitimise its war crimes.

It is imposed sweeping sanctions against Russia. It supports efforts by the International Criminal Court to haul Putin before a court to answer for war crimes. Israel on the other hand is backed and armed by Western states who have justified its genocide

long sought of self-defense despite pointless hand rigging.

By the way, this is why it is important for us in Western states

to speak out so forcefully about Gaza because when we condemn Russia's war crimes we are doing

so because morally that is the right thing to do but it doesn't make any impact.

Here in Western states we have leverage because these war crimes in Gaza are being done because they are facilitated by our own governments.

Now this week, Okmaptit Children's Hospital in Kyiv was bombed by Russia.

Let me quote the Ukrainian President Zelensky.

He says one of the most important Children's Hospitals, not only in Ukraine but also in Europe,

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