Gareth Smith in last week’s letter claimed that my letter was filled with lies, but chose not to elaborate. What is this – kindergarten? If you could have contested anything that I said, you would have.
It is shocking and distressing that in our own amazing region, Mullumbimby High School saw fit to use their beautiful students to spread this incredible bias in a shocking anti-Israel performance in its recent school play that I believe had five packed out performances.
A large proportion of the 220 Israelis that were kidnapped were young women and children. Hamas fighters that were captured in the week after they started the war admitted that the women and babies are being mass raped in Gaza.
We now know that hundreds of Palestinian civilians came into Israel when they knew that they caught Israel by complete surprise, and participated in the mass rapes and murders.
As usual Hamas are now safe and hiding deep underground and firing rockets from civilian homes etc, hoping Israel will return fire. Hamas forces its civilians to remain in their homes hoping they will be killed. Hamas literally could not care less about the poor Palestinian civilians and do everything to put them in harm’s way.
The tragic Palestinian civilian deaths were completely avoidable had Hamas not started these horrors, but Hamas have greatly inflated the number of dead and injured and everyone has seen the footage online of people in body bags,laughing and playing along, and makeup artists making fake wounds on mass.
Social media and the media in general have much to answer for, peddling lies and creating division. Please do your own research as a huge percentage of Palestinian posts are fake which does not help the Palestinian cause. Please google Mosab Hassan Yousef who is the son of the founder of Hamas, and you will see that the incredible suffering of the Palestinian people is due to the actions of his father and all other Palestinian leaders. Nobody is a greater authority than him as he WAS a Hamas terrorist.
Peace is the only answer and there is no chance of peace with a death cult like Hamas in charge. If you want to really help Palestinians as I genuinely do, please listen to him.
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. 
