It’s important to recognise and acknowledge that Israel could not perpetrate what I would call a genocide in Palestine without the unconditional support of the Western powers.
The Australian government’s complicity of silence and material support for Israel is indicative of the so-called values and cultural heritage we share with the Zionist colony: a heritage of racial supremacy, genocidal apartheid and dispossession of indigenous peoples. From its inception, Australia’s colonial regime brutalised and betrayed the native population.
The sadistic cruelty and contempt for human life we see live-streamed from Gaza each day is every bit as lethal and depraved as the century or so of genocide that Australia inflicted on the First Nations people. Today our politicians pay lip service to the notion of human rights, but remain inactive and indifferent to the plight of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Clearly they’ve not changed a bit: the racial prejudice, the supremacist conceit, the callous apathy are regrettably all still part of the contemporary Australian polity.
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. 
