Letter

In response to Silence is no response to slaughter, so at least recognise Palestine

Appeasing Israel is a Faustian bargain

The article referred to is a direct, powerful exposition of the situation to which we have devolved in the face of the relentless Israeli destruction of Palestinians.

Human decency has been supplanted by the lust for electoral success. While this is less than surprising for the LNP — despite the actual humanity displayed back in the days of Fraser et al — it is a massive abandonment of the basic principles that once were a part of the Labor credo.

We have a mountain of irrefutable evidence in the history of Germany post-World War II that a state that relentlessly pursues genocide and international war criminality is held in repulsion for decades by the rest of the world.

Supporting the foul, current Zionist activity and ignoring the massacre, genocide, rapacious pillage and other offences against humanity being employed by the Zionist/IDF oligarchy will rebound on Israel. Such support is in no way an expression of combatting antisemitism, it is cowardice in the face of Zionist bullying.

And it lies like scum on polluted waste on the top of the bodies, the lives, the hopes for decency of the Palestinian people.

— Richard Llewellyn from Colo Vale