Penny Wong has said “there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas” after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israel and Hamas leaders. It echoes comments by her UK counterpart and former PM David Cameron, and current PM Rishi Sunak.
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00:09 There is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas.
00:12 Hamas is a terrorist organisation
00:14 and is prescribed as such in Australia.
00:16 There is no moral equivalence between a democratic state
00:27 exercising its lawful right to self-defence
00:29 and the terrorist group Hamas.
00:31 And it's wrong to conflate and, as I said,
00:35 equivocate between those two different entities.
00:38 Israel uses its defences to try and defend its people.
00:42 Hamas uses its people to try and defend its rockets.
00:44 I mean, they have no regard for civilian casualties.
00:48 They want as many civilian casualties as possible.
00:50 So I don't see there's some sort of moral equivalence
00:53 between the two.
00:54 I don't see any moral equivalence between the two.