Letter

In response to Why Australia should recognise Palestinian statehood

Israel and Netanyahu are only partly to blame

I cannot at all understand the insistence of Western leaders and influencers in focusing so much blame on Israel and Netanyahu for the horror of Gaza and the plight of the Palestinian people … when they know damned well that this holocaust is being controlled by the Americans and can thus be stopped or moderated b them at any time.

And of course, the statehood question can also be resolved for the Palestinians by a stroke of the American pen.

Clearly, they prefer to dump it all on Israel (despite the effect this is having on the global rise of antisemitism) than risk their precious relations with the generous, though reliably vengeful, Americans.

Howard Debenham from Maroochydore, Queensland