Letter

In response to Trump’s mongrel punt

The war criminal and the faux mathematician

Let’s have a recap shall we?

A wanted war criminal enacting a genocide, and a president who is arresting and disappearing his own citizens, come up with a 20-point peace plan that involves no Palestinian input.

A reminder that this is a war criminal, whose population at latest poll, showed 95% believed that “not enough force” or “sufficient force” had been used in Gaza, and a president who thinks that a 400% discount on eggs means you’re getting them at a discount.

And we think these people are sufficient to create a peace plan? The coloniser and the enabler?

Australia’s prime minister comments that this “plan” is cause for hope. What hope might you be referring to prime minister? Hope that the protesters in your own country will stand down? Hope that criticism for our inaction and complicity will evaporate? Hope that your Labor rank and file will settle down and think that you’ve done enough?

Never again will Australia be able to lecture another country on human rights or humanitarian aid. Our promise of a better future for the Palestinians fell at the first hurdle. And continues to fail. Our lack of courage is responsible for their continued suffering.

Alyssa Aleksanian from Hazelb