Letter

In response to Hundreds of thousands flood cities across Europe to demand end to genocide in Gaza

Democracy in theory, authoritarianism in practice

I don’t recall in my lifetime — and that is 80 years — another period when our so-called democracies in the West have demonstrated such a disconnect between the people and our alleged leaders.

Billions of decent people around the planet have demonstrated unequivocally that they do not believe the rancid criminals in Israel when the latter claim to be supposedly just defending themselves.

Yet our Western leaders appear to be utterly unaware of the abhorrence and detestation with which their support for genocide is viewed. They demonstrate, if it were ever necessary to say so, a craven subservience to the most disgusting regime of the century. Their moral cowardice is a betrayal of their citizens, who display the moral courage they utterly lack.

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041