If you’re a Palestinian Muslim resident, whose family’s background is from Israel, I think you’d be safe, and you could be confident that you weren’t included as one of the Israelis who the Banksdown Hospital nurses said they’d kill.
I’m sure they were just referring to killing Australians with a Jewish Israeli background. For general non-Jewish residents, just to be safe, for blokes it may be worth registering at a hospital with an additional made-up Muslim middle name, and wearing a Muslim kefiya scarf (a Greens Party member might lend you one). for women, just to clarify you’re not Jewish, perhaps go in a hijab.
I wish Jewish residents well on celebrating the recent Jewish religious festival of Tu Bishvat, a festival for honouring trees, (from sundown February 12 to sundown February 13). And perhaps we all can take inspiration for a response to this ugly ‘health care’ situation, from the trees honoured in this particular instance of Australia’s multicultural festivals – trees that continue to provide shade, even to those that come to cut them down.
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. 
