Letter
Ambassador's expulsion warranted
I understand the public outrage at the government of Israel, but Cameron Leckie — who presumes Israel provided the intelligence without seeing it, or revealing any direct knowledge of the ASIO secret briefing to the government and Opposition — takes this one step further by conflating the war in Gaza with attacks on Australia’s Jewish community.
Just because someone is of the Jewish religion, it doesn’t make them responsible or even associated with the actions of the Israeli Government.
Yet Leckie, without access to classified intelligence briefings, reduces a firebombing of a synagogue to, “No one killed. No one hurt. Relatively minor property damage.”
It wasn’t “minor property damage” either – the building was gutted and sacred religious material destroyed, as happened in Germany in the 1930s when synagogues were targeted.
What action Australia takes regarding Israel is irrelevant to a foreign government instigating terrorist acts in Australia.
It is a false and spurious argument to link the horror in Gaza with the expulsion of Iran’s ambassador.
Leckie claims that acting against the funding of terror by the Iranian theocracy “is prima facie illogical and irrational”.
Should Australia wait for people to be killed?
— Simon Tatz from Melbourne