In response to the letter from Matt Wierzbicki (October 9), l am also a great supporter of Palestine, but I definitely do not support Hamas or other fanatical Islamist ruling parties, who could not care less about their own people.
They need a leader such as Mosab Hassan Yousef who is the son of one of the founders of Hamas, and an ex-Hamas operative. He has dedicated his life to speaking out against Hamas after realising how brainwashed the Palestinian people are against Israel, and against peace. He is very pro-Israel, as many, many millions of other Muslims and Arabs around the world are.
All wars are terrible, but anyone who uses critical thinking, rather than emotion, can clearly see that Israel is in no way committing genocide. Israel could have wiped Gaza from the face of the earth and killed all Gazans in the first week if that was the intention. Everyone knows Hamas lies and inflates the death toll, but let’s say over 40,000 Gazans have been killed, 17,000 were known Hamas combatants, and everyone also knows that Hamas uses their civilians as human shields. It is still nonetheless a tragedy that civilians are being killed.
500,000 people were killed in Syria, 380,000 were killed in Yemen, 240,000 were killed in Afghanistan, 500,000 were killed in Sudan, 300,000 were killed in Iraq. Where were your letters claiming genocide then?
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. 
