Letter

In response to NYT report says Netanyahu prolonged war on Gaza to stay in power

Addressing the lies

When dealing with the words of the accused war criminal Netanyahu, it is necessary to recognise that nothing he says can be taken at face value. He has for instance argued publicly that the Jews were in the Levant first and that gives them prior rights to the land. He has suggested this is confirmed by scientific research.

The truth, as always with him, is actually the reverse of what he asserts. There are numerous peer reviewed and widely accepted archaeological and genetic studies in recent years that confirm the genetic and cultural continuity of the Palestinian people with the area’s original peoples, stretching back 14,500 years.

The conclusions of that extensive research is that the Palestinians are the indigenous people of those lands that the Zionist fascists insist are the God-given land of the Jews. That reseach reveals no such even remotely similar connection to these lands by the Jews.

Indeed, Judaism did not exist until the second millennium BCE being at least 10,000 years after the Palestinian connections began. Neyanyahu’s approach to his own political survival matches his connection to the truth and to the best interests of the Jewish people.

Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041