Letter

In response to The disgrace of deliberate starvation: Israel's war of hunger in Gaza

Genocide and Western values

No sentient moral and ethical being could rationally dissent from the view that the Israeli state is worse in its savagery than the Nazis, as it triumphantly flaunts its barbarity and arrogant criminality openly before the world as “God’s chosen people”. That is widely recognised by the vast bulk of humanity.

What is even more distressing is the active participation in, and evident support for, this vast atrocity by the overwhelming bulk of the leadership of the “civilieed” West. It has become a truly nonfunctional and iniquitous civilisation that deserves the contempt and detestation of that vast bulk of humanity. They see in Israel’s actions the modern-day reflection of the deliberate horrors visited upon them in the recent colonial and imperial past by this same odious culture.

These Western leaders are so unwitting as to totally fail to grasp the revulsion with which they are regarded for the vast gap between their self image of moral leadership and the trail of devastation they have left around the rest of the planet. Willing participation in the greatest crime so far of the 21st century is the legacy to be left by this dying civilisation.

Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041