Letter

In response to Starvation and profiteering in Gaza

Failure to condemn

Never before has violence been so encouraged, and disdain for life and liberty been so blatant.

A US president who encourages violence against immigrants living and working within his country; a man who encourages the suppression of free speech against journalists and anyone who has a difference of opinion. A president who bullies countries that don’t want to trade in the way he wishes to, and threatens to take over sovereign nations for his own means; a man who bombs countries illegally, and sends the military into a war zone -that he and his cronies created — under the cover of “aid”, to shoot starving people with impunity — killing, scores of people every day. A “leader” who has condoned the bombing of hospitals and schools, the killing of aid workers, the kidnapping of medical teams, and created a country with the highest number of child amputees in history.

A psychologist/psychiatrist would look at that personality, at his insatiable need for power, attention, and money, and diagnose all sorts of inferiority complexes and narcissistic attitudes.

And our prime minister sits mutely by and says nothing to condemn these horrific actions, except, “We support US action”.

Alyssa Aleksanian from Hazelbrook