Many locals have approached me to say how shocked they are at the extreme anti-Israel bias that is expressed at many local events such as the ‘peace’ meeting recently at the RSL club in Mullum.
The extreme lies or at best gross exaggerations at some of these events are quite clear for all to see for those who have even the most basic of factual understanding of the war in Gaza and the history of the conflict itself.
Some such events are very slick in their approach and work from a ‘kit’ that has been extremely well put together in its content and detailed description on how to go about spreading anti-Israel propaganda by community outreach and constant pressure on local councils, government bodies, etc. This kit has been distributed around the world.
It is clear when there is no balance, and without balance there can be no progress. Without progress, there can be no peace.
The war in Gaza, like all wars, is a terrible war, and innocent people on both sides are suffering greatly, yes, more so in Gaza at the moment but also many millions of people of all religions and backgrounds in Israel. We should be coming together to bring the world closer to peace, not to create more division.
Peace is the solution, not just a ceasefire. Peace now.
Danny, the Greens have a strong pro Palestinian stance. You live in an area where it’s cool, hip, expected to accept and regurgitate every unnuanced position of the Greens. Much like the cooker, conspiracy stuff on the interweb, it eliminates the need to think or stay broadly informed. Apart from that, the climate and the beaches are great.
Their opinion is bias, your opinion is fact? This ‘kit’ sound like a facts sheet with citations.
No, I’m saying their opinion is automatic – I said nothing about bias My opinion is opinion – that’s fine. I try to form it from the best available evidence rather than the slippery and highly mutable concept of “fact”.
As for your second sentence, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe it’s that lack of precision in language we have been discussing.
My comment was to the letter writer.
Nobody is more adept at twisted propaganda than Israel, as the two previous comments prove.
There is no excuse for Israel’s evil.
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Nor that of Hamas👍
The important thing is that we keep the whole damn lot of them over there, not here.
That we keep the zealotry and hatred over there – agree!
CVS, the long green tentacles of the anti-Semites reach far and are organised, personally they disgust me.
My I suggest the book Synagogue of Satan by Andrew Carrington. The tentacles of Zionism reach far and are a threat to Jews and Gentiles alike, but particularly Jews. Don’t tar us all with the same brush. We aren’t one big Jew sharing a single brain. The 250,000 Iranian Jews that refuse to move to Israel would love to explain it to you.
Why is criticism of Israel’s policies anti semetic? Criticism of a government’ s policies is not being racist.