Áine Tyrell and Subhi Awad have you ever stopped to consider that you might just be flat-out wrong?
What you’re spreading – hatred, lies, rape denial, and that of all the 7 October massacres – is exactly the kind of toxic narrative that we Australians can’t stand.
You claim to speak for the oppressed, but the reality is that many Australians, who know their history, understand that Israel (Palestine) has been the ancestral and only homeland of the Jewish people for close to 4,000 years. Meanwhile, it’s the Arab Muslim empires that colonised huge parts of the Middle East and North Africa through violent conquest – rape, murder, beheadings. That’s not opinion; it’s historical fact.
Australians whose families fought in the world wars know what oppression really looks like – and what it takes to fight for freedom.
Refugees from the Middle East came here fleeing brutal Arab regimes like Abdul Nasser’s, the Ayatollah’s, Iraq’s ‘Farhud’ and many more. They didn’t come here to listen to people like you rewrite history or throw around accusations of racism.
You think Australians are ignorant, racist, or cold-hearted? That’s not just wrong – it’s ignorant on your part. Most of us see through the hypocrisy, and we’re tired of being lectured to by people who twist facts to fit their narrative. Blaming our caring/cohesive Byron Shire community illustrates your mentality of victimhood. Time to put your big boy/girl pants on.
M McCormack, Billinudgel
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. 
