More Australian politicians are responding to Donald Trump’s planned illegal invasion and take over of Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians who live there – but so far, the major parties are sticking to either silence, or old lines.

We are now in a situation where the president of the United States, who controls a military Australia has agreements with and ADF personnel stationed within, is speaking about using that military to ‘take over’ and ‘own’ another sovereign nation and forcibly resettle the population into surrounding sovereign states or face collapse themselves, like its a real estate deal and not a complete break in international law – and our leaders are silent.

Lidia Thorpe is among those using her platform to fill the silence.

As is former Labor senator and left firebrand, Doug Cameron: