Letter

In response to We dug up medics in Gaza. A year later, international law remains buried

Living within the truth

Why are most Labor “leaders” in Australia implicitly and/or explicitly hostile to Palestinians and those who oppose the ethic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians?

There is an explanation in Vaclavel Havel’s 1979 meditation of political dissent - the nature of suppression and the falsehoods and intimidation that respond to dissent.

Havel argued that most of us live in a lie and that, instead, it is possible to live within the truth.

Most Labor “leaders” throughout Australia prefer to live in a lie - that there is international law, that Israel is exempt from this law and ethnic cleansing and genocide by Israel is not ethnic cleansing and genocide.

What enrages these leaders is those who challenge this lie and, instead, live in and demand truth - the reality of a dehumanising, apartheid and racist Israel Government. This truth is inconvenient.

— David Griffiths from Mordialloc VIC 3195