Letter
Leaders who have lost their moral compass
It is hard, if not impossible, to any longer believe that the vast bulk of our leaders in the West are fit for their leadership positions. When they not only turn away from the grotesque, genocidal activities of the Israeli Government, but participate in, and publicly support them, knowing the truth of what that support enables.
The truth about this vast criminal enterprise, and those without the moral courage to condemn it, are a rebuke to the view of Hanna Arendt about the “banality of evil”.
This evil is not banal. It is contemptible and abhorrent. It will lead, sadly, to real and renewed racism against innocent Jews around the world, despite the fact that the Israeli Government does not in any way represent the bulk of decent, honest and compassionate Jews.
— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041