Letter

In response to Australia speaks of normalising Israel, My family is living through genocide

Time to move on

Thank you, Hiba Farra. The Israeli Government warns against “rewarding Hamas”. What about “rewarding the perpetrators of 70 years of attempted ethnic cleansing”?

Rather than continue with the barbarism of ancient Middle Eastern religious disputes with their “chosen people” idiocies and holy texts that call for women to be killed for burning incense and fathers being told to kill their kiddies to prove their blind obedience to a jealous, homophobic God with anger management problems, it’s time to adopt the social values that are accepted around the world many thousands of years later.

Is it possible for the humane elements of today’s Judaism, Christianity and Islam to get together to annotate and contextualise their holy texts so that their texts cannot be used to justify committing atrocities in 2025?

A “one-state solution” to living in harmony would show that the Abrahamic religions still have merit.

— Neil Hauxwell from Moe Victoria