Unhinged proposals for Gaza
Like Larry Stillman, most of us don’t want to see a rise in hate towards any group of people here. But for Donald Trump to reiterate a plan during Netanyahu’s visit that Palestinians should just vacate Southwest Palestine is unhinged. What can that do but create even greater tensions, with their spillover in Australia and elsewhere?
What then will he propose for Northeast Palestine?
Hitler’s plans for Poland to provide Lebensraum have an eerie echo in Trump’s statements. Jewish organisations in Australia, which are hopefully fundamentally driven by moral imperatives, would be best served by proposing a much more humanitarian approach.
In my admittedly limited experience of trying to engage reasonably with them, one problem seems to be that some of those organisations don’t seem to want to engage with their fellow Australians on ways to ameliorate the situation.
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