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The Australian Government has funnelled $2.5B of public funding to Israeli arms manufacturers via government contracts. Steph Tran investigates.

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[–] oneser@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Hmmmm. I'll bite on the "buying weapons from an ally with significant military capabilities 20 years ago wasn't dumb", but leave at the "continue to do business blindly because, "both sides" ".

[–] FreedomAdvocate -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"continue to do business blindly because, “both sides” "

That's not what I said though - to be clear, I said there's no reason not to continue doing business with Israeli companies. Not breaking any laws, just carrying on with business.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So you think it was okay for IBM to catalogue the jews for Nazi Germany, huh?

After all, they weren't breaking any laws, just carrying on with business?

Fucking pathetic fascist bootlicker...

[–] FreedomAdvocate 0 points 4 months ago

You’re getting mixed up. Australia isn’t doing work for Israel - Israel is doing work for Australia.