Regarding the two letters to the editor last week that whitewash the genocide of the Palestinians: we have been watching on our screens daily for the last two years, and yes Palestinian people are still being murdered – every day.
The ceasefire was not negotiated with Hamas, so how can it be binding when the USA, Israel and other Arab vassal states are not allowing self-determination of the Palestinian people?
Conflict resolution 101: both parties need to meet and negotiate, but we seem to live in a world where diplomacy is lost, and governments are unable to talk with their adversaries, e.g. Ukraine conflict.
You might say that Hamas is a terrorist organisation. No, they are a resistance guerrilla force fighting the brutal Israeli occupation that started in 1948. Palestine was not empty when the Jewish people arrived, the indigenous Palestinian people lived there for generations.
What about the idea that Israel is the terror state – according to the UN definition of terrorism, it is ‘acts of violence intended to cause death or injury to civilians or non-combatants’.
So Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, the bombing of Lebanon killing thousands of civilians, Israel’s dirty war and bombing in Syria resulting in countless deaths… all resulting in untold suffering of the people of the Middle East from Israeli aggression. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture of the Zionist project.
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. 
