It’s fascinating how those calling for peace and accountability in the Middle East are branded terrorist sympathisers by some of the letter writers to The Echo.
If the number of civilian deaths, and casualties, engineered starvation, and countless amputations – frequently without anaesthetic, and widespread total obliteration is anything to go by, we know who the real terrorists are.
All the while our national leaders make minimal to no effort at sanctions or support for international law.
The recent action by Israel on Qatar against Hamas operatives in that country has been called ‘state terrorism’ by the governments of both Turkeya and Qatar and declared a breach of international law.


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