Israeli murder of Australian aid worker whitewashed

Written by: Nick G. on 2 August 2024

The murder of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, including Australian citizen Zomi Frankcom, has been whitewashed in a report by Special Adviser Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin.

At the time of the federal government’s announcement of Binskin to investigate the crime, we warned that his appointment came with a major conflict of interest.

We pointed out that “Binskin is a non-executive director for Defence and National Security Policy of BAE Systems Australia. Its UK parent company is literally making a killing out of Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinians.”

We added: 

It is not good enough that someone working for genocide profiteer BAE Systems will investigate the World Central Kitchen murders.

If it was thought that someone of his military seniority was required to get past Israeli obstructions, then he should have been appointed as part of a team that included war crimes legal specialists and human rights lawyers. The World Kitchen killings are not an isolated incident and should be investigated as part of the murders of nearly 200 aid workers by the Zionists, of their deliberate starvation of the people of Gaza, attacks on food convoys including the so-called “flour massacre” on 29 February 2024 when at least 118 people were killed and 760 injured after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians seeking food from aid trucks.

Anything less than an investigation on this scale will miss the whole point of the Zionist genocide.

If Binskins returns a report that is in anyway inconclusive, that in anyway refuses to see what even Blind Freddy can plainly see, then it will have no credibility given his conflict of interest.

As it turns out, BAE Systems non-executive director Binskin’s report is worse than “inconclusive”: it actually backs Israel’s account of the killing of the aid workers. The UN now says that over 250 aid workers have been killed by the Israelis in Gaza.

In his report, Binskin said it was his assessment that the Israeli strike on the WCK aid workers was not knowingly or deliberately directed against the WCK.

"It is my assessment that Israel’s acceptance of accountability for the 1 April WCK incident, and investigation, reporting and responding has, to this point, been timely, appropriate and, with some exceptions, sufficient," Binskin's report said.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has accepted Binskin’s report.

Openly fascist Opposition leader Peter Dutton who has all along backed Israeli genocide, said the report should never have been commissioned, saying that the decision was “frankly a disgrace”.  

The real disgrace is that a top official of the Australian Defence Force has stood with BAE Systems and their good customer Israel, to whitewash the murder of an Australian that took place in plain view.

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