Note from The Echo
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events.
This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the abuse of police power. Our ongoing commitment to publishing different, sometimes strong opinions, many that we don’t agree with, is why you’ll find the conflicting and contradictory opinions of our readers here. They aren’t our own opinions.
We can’t publish everything we receive, some submissions are not based in fact at all, some are defamatory or too offensive or just too crazy. But while some readers don’t think opinions they disagree with should be given any space in The Echo, we don’t. We publish opinions we disagree with, and we hope everyone will read them and consider their worth, because we believe that this is an essential part of a healthy democracy – to scrutinise ideas even if we choose to discard them.
Palestinian refugees?
As this terrible war to remove Hamas from Gaza rages on, civilians are tragically being killed as Hamas uses them as human shields, have you ever wondered why not one of the almost 60 Muslim countries in the world will take even one Palestinian civilian as refugees?
The sad fact is that Palestinians have been so severely radicalised that even Muslim countries are frightened to take them.
Even Egypt, who shares a border with Gaza and Jordan only a short drive from the Egyptian border, refuses to take even one Palestinian civilian, and the reason is that they don’t want radical Islamists in their country. Egypt ousted the Muslim brotherhood from their parliament a number of years ago for this very reason. The Muslim brotherhood, Hamas, Isis, Islamic Alkaeda, Boko Haram, they all have the same goal to destroy all Western democracies. This is nothing new, and they all proudly declare it.
It is a tragic fact of war that civilians on both sides will die in a conflict but have you noticed that the Gaza ministry of health run by the terrorists of Hamas never mention how many Hamas fighters are killed fighting against Israel every day, since that is who Israel is obviously targeting? Hamas want you to think that they are all civilians which is obviously one of their ongoing huge lies.
Palestinian communities need to be taught the real history including the fact that the Jews are indigenous. Only then does peace have any chance at all.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
