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June 11, 2026
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By David Bradbury, Wilsons Creek

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When will a majority of Jewish people and modern day Israelis take on board the wisdom of their own ancient scriptures where in the first book of the Torah (Genesis) it recounts how Cain, the son of Adam and Eve murdered his brother Abel out of jealousy, setting in train the Judaistic saying ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’.

The fake outrage of Josh Frydenberg and Sussan Ley blaming PM Albanese or Allegra Spender as if they pulled the trigger at Bondi. The source of that brutal payback can be shafted home to where it falls squarely at the feet of Netanyahu and his genocidal war against the Arabs –Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran.

Isis and its training camps all over the world, including the island in the Philippines where the father and son got their training, was born out of two US invasions of Iraq with Israel cheering on, allowing US bombing Iraq to take place from Israeli air bases.

No royal commission, no amount of federal police stationed at every tabernacle, Jewish school or public celebration will stop a madman terrorist father or son gunning down an innocent little Matilda and 14 others in revenge for the hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslim, Christians and non-sectarian Arabs who have fallen into the cross hairs of Netanyahu’s fanatical crusade.

The only chance for Israelis to live in peace in their homeland is to elect a government that is committed to a two state solution, and picking up the tab with the US to rebuild Gaza, and a guarantee to the Palestinians living in the West Bank that no rabid right-wing Israeli new settlers will get away with murdering and firebombing them in their own homes and orchards as armed Jewish youth cry out, ‘Death to all Arabs!’

With 70-80 per cent of Israelis (including a lot of Zionists living in Australia) supporting Netanyahu and his modus operandi, I can’t see that happening.

So we ALL must suffer and live in fear now.

David Bradbury, Wilsons Creek

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Israel’s assault on Global Sumud Flotilla – a first-hand account

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It hit me like a lightning strike. It was the latex gloves that did it. Those pale blue five fingered clinical sheaths made me want to vomit. Last Tuesday, having just been repatriated from my time on the Global Sumud Flotilla, I was at Tweed Valley Hospital getting a forensic medical examination for my sexual assault at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces.
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Here’s to the Flotilla

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The Global Sumud Flotilla is about brave people doing exceptional things with skill, compassion, colour, spirit and gruff chutzpah. Would I leave my comfy chair...
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