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Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm christanaming it.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, October thirteenth, twenty twenty five. Climate Change and

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Speaker 1: Energy Minister Chris Bowen wants China and India to invest

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Speaker 1: in Australia's renewable energy rollout. He says that's because they're

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Speaker 1: two of the biggest carbon emitters in the world and

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Speaker 1: Australia's efforts are unlikely to move the dial on emissions

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Speaker 1: reductions without their input. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will

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Speaker 1: join US President Donald Trump and other world leaders at

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Speaker 1: a signing ceremony for the Middle East Peace Steel in

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Speaker 1: Egypt on Monday. Trump is expected to arrive in Jerusalem

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Speaker 1: to a hero's welcome. He'll address Israel's parliament and visit

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Speaker 1: the Western Wall as the nation prepares to welcome home

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Speaker 1: at least twenty living hostages taken captive during the October

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Speaker 1: seven attacks by Hamas in twenty twenty three, or is

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Speaker 1: alive right now. At the Australian dot Com dot a U,

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Speaker 1: members of Australia's Jewish community gathered to remember Israelis killed

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Speaker 1: and captured by her Maas over the weekend. That's as

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Speaker 1: thousands of pro Palestine activists marched through the streets of

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Speaker 1: Australia's biggest cities. But as the gunfire quiets in the

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Speaker 1: Middle East, the question becomes what are they marching for?

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Speaker 1: That's today's episode. In Gaza City on Saturday, there was

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Speaker 1: an unfamiliar quiet. For only the second time in more

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Speaker 1: than two years, a ceasefire was in effect, and as

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Speaker 1: Palestinians streamed back into the northern parts of the Gaza Strip,

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Speaker 1: there was hope that, thanks to a historic peace deal

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Speaker 1: between Israel and Hermas, it would stick. But around fifteen

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Speaker 1: thousand kilometers away in Sydney, thousands gathered to protest. At

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Speaker 1: a rally in Melbourne, Senator Lydia Thorpe made a stunning declaration.

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Speaker 2: Parlament have the Huppine I am not then to make plan.

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Speaker 1: And in Brisbane organizers urged hundreds to escalate their demonstration efforts.

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Speaker 1: The Sydney march, organized by the Palestine Action Group, proceeded

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Speaker 1: despite a ruling by the New South Wales Court of

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Speaker 1: Appeals that a planned march from Hyde Park to the

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Speaker 1: Opera House was a public safety risk. Cam the Peace

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Speaker 1: Plan agreed to by Israel and Hamas has seen Israel's

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Speaker 1: defense force drawback significantly in the Gaza Strip and Palestinians

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Speaker 1: able to return home this weekend. That is ostensibly what

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Speaker 1: pro Palestine groups have been demonstrating for over the past

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Speaker 1: two years. So why did these marches in Sydney, Melbourne

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Speaker 1: and Brisbane go ahead on Sunday?

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Speaker 3: I think Christian that these marches have almost become institutionalized

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Speaker 3: and ritualized to a degree.

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Speaker 1: Cameron Stewart is the Australian's chief international correspondent.

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Speaker 3: And they're morphed from calling for a cease fire, which

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Speaker 3: of course they were calling for, and now as cease

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Speaker 3: far has been delivered, they're not particularly comfortable with that.

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Speaker 3: A lot of the more activist rump of the pro

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Speaker 3: Palestinian movement, which a lot of those were the ones

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Speaker 3: we did see marching this weekend, really have a far

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Speaker 3: broader agenda and that is really they just don't want

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Speaker 3: Israel to exist. I think that is really the only

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Speaker 3: summary you can have.

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Speaker 2: A ceasefire is not peace.

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Speaker 3: A cease fire does not unbury the dead. They want

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Speaker 3: a peace plan that gives complete sovereignty to a Palestinian state,

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Speaker 3: a whole lot of conditions which Israel would never accept,

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Speaker 3: and part of their agenda is to try to persuade

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Speaker 3: countries to agree with their concept that a genocide has

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Speaker 3: been committed in Gaza. They really want a whole series

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Speaker 3: of conditions that simply are just not going to be

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Speaker 3: met by Western countries. And so they're sort of living

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Speaker 3: in a bit of a fantasy world to a degree,

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Speaker 3: and it's a world that's not the reality of the

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Speaker 3: Middle East. The Middle East is so complex, it is

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Speaker 3: so difficult to make any sort of successful peace deal

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Speaker 3: or resolution. And I think it's quite ironic that after

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Speaker 3: a cease fire now. And this is a cease fire

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Speaker 3: which overwhelmingly benefits the Palestinian people of Gaza. It stops

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Speaker 3: interiant government that is neither harmus nor Israel. It's overwhelmingly

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Speaker 3: in their favors. And here we are, We've actually got

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Speaker 3: one which, fingers crossed on all sides, will succeed. And

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Speaker 3: yet it has been criticized rather than celebrated.

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Speaker 1: Is the pro Palestine movement splintering? Do you think into

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Speaker 1: one group who believe their goal has been achieved and

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Speaker 3: Since the October seven massacre, we've had two types of

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Speaker 3: Palestinian protesters. One of the ones I call Mum and

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Speaker 3: the very high Seville and death toll in Gaza ant

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Speaker 3: the ones who are calling for the eradication of israel

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Speaker 3: trants from the river to the sea, coining Israeli genocidal state,

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Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. I mean, these are activist demands

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Speaker 3: that are extreme and we're completely unrealistic. But that is

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Speaker 3: the group we are seeing on the streets now. And

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Speaker 3: these activists are generally incredibly unpleasant, and I think that

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Speaker 3: the vast majority of Australians, I really think Middle Australia

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Speaker 1: In the wake of their court loss, organizers of Sunday's

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Speaker 1: protest in Sydney said their case has significant implications for

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Speaker 1: protest laws across Australia, and they've called for legislative reform

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Speaker 1: to protect their right to demonstrate. The thing is, they've

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Speaker 1: never been stopped, and the Albanese Labor government has largely

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Speaker 1: supported freedom of assembly. But as threats of burning Parliament

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Speaker 1: in support of the cause are banded about, is the

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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot more pressure now on politicians

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Speaker 3: and the police to restrict these protests in a way

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Speaker 3: that of course in normal Australian society, no one wants

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Speaker 3: protests restricted. But I've really got to say that some

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Speaker 3: of the pro Palestinian organizers would have only themselves to

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Speaker 3: blame if there is a curtailing of their freedom. For example,

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Speaker 3: they of course wanted to march on Sunday to the

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Speaker 3: people of that disgraceful protest on October the nine, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty three, two days after the October seven massacre, where

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Speaker 3: of course Jews were villified and flags were burnt in

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Speaker 3: front of the Opera House. Now that was a provocative

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Speaker 3: the dark intent and the dark heart of some of

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Speaker 3: the pro Palestinian activists. So if they are accorded less

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Speaker 1: On Friday, the head of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network

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Speaker 1: told British TV host Piers Morgan the October seven attacks

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Speaker 1: were an act of resistance. Twelve hundred Israelis were killed

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Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty three assault and two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty one civilians and soldiers were taken hostage by Homas militants.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to call it an acted terrors would

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Speaker 2: you call it? I'm going to call it part of

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Speaker 2: the Palatinian resistance. The Zionist experiment failed in ethnically cleansing

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Speaker 2: and extinguishing all of the Palestinians, and the Palestinians for

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Speaker 1: What do you make of this conflation of what is

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Speaker 3: Well, it's just an incredibly vicious interpretation really of what

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Speaker 3: was a horrific terrorist attack on twelve hundred Israelis. It's

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Speaker 3: almost beyond the pale to not call that a terrorist attack.

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Speaker 3: I mean, basically by saying it's an active resistance effectively

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Speaker 3: in that sort of comment. It's very hard starting point

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Speaker 3: that really does fuel antisemitism in Australia. It basically says

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Speaker 3: this laughter of Jews is justified if there's a political

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Speaker 3: to say, and very sadly, in the last two years

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Speaker 3: into attacks, abuse, the burning of synagogue's, general harassment of

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Speaker 3: Australia's Jewish community. They are words that literally do lead

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Speaker 1: Coming up. Australia's Jewish community remembers October seven gatherings of

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Speaker 1: a different kind took place across Australia on Sunday as

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Speaker 1: the Jewish community came together to remember those lost in

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Speaker 3: Stuart I went to one on Sunday morning in the

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Speaker 3: Melbourne suburb of Corfield. Hundreds of Jewish people turned up,

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Speaker 3: wrapping Israeli flags around themselves and singing songs, having prayers.

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Speaker 3: And it was interesting Christian because I've gone to a

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Speaker 3: two years. But the first Jewish gathering where everyone was happy,

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Speaker 3: people were crying. They were crying with happiness and hope

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Speaker 3: it was very dignified, very polite. There was no abuse

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump, Benjamin et Yahou and international community had helped

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Speaker 3: us forge this peace deal. It was a very peaceful

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Speaker 1: How is Australia's Jewish community feeling. Knowing these demonstrations are

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Speaker 3: Lot of the Jewish community was horrified that specific protests

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Speaker 3: I think was just very in sensors. To be fair,

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Speaker 3: the numbers, thankfully were not very big at these protests.

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Speaker 1: Cameron Stewart is The Australian's chief international correspondent. You can

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