Letter

In response to The fish rots from the head

The rot includes Australia as well, of course

Les Macdonald gets it right. He notes that “in current discussions between the US, Britain, France and Germany, they have simply thrown out the right of the Palestinian people to vote in the government of any new Palestinian state, by saying that Hamas will not play a role in that state regardless of any possible desire of the Palestinians themselves”.

The US, of course, has no intention of allowing the existence of a “Palestinian state” and no intention of preventing Israel from transforming “occupation” of Palestine to destruction of Palestine in its entirety.

The US made this obvious most recently when they banned Palestinian representation at the UNGA. All Palestinian passport holders are persona non grata in the US, including representatives of Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority, an organisation willing to work as sub-contractors to Israeli control of Palestine in all ways.

Britain, France, Germany — and Australia, Canada among other minnows now frantically scratching for straws of legacy security — have no interest in Palestinian “self-determination”, for they all continue to materially support Israeli genocide in Gaza and they all continue to deny that genocide is taking place.

— Peter Henning from Melbourne