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.
Zionist genocide
An email to Justine Elliot; ‘when will the Labor government call for an end to the Zionist genocide. The Israeli leadership cannot refute world-wide accusations or war crimes, when will the government representatives in this country be expelled?’
When will the Australian media stand with the 2.2 million Palestinian civilians trapped in an area a third the size of Canberra, without food, water, medical or sanitation, by the Israeli military, and call for an end to the genocide?
‘Get Up’ also has an online petition calling for an end to violence, the release of hostages and for the government to do more to call for a permanent ceasefire.
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. 
