I refer to Member for Parkes Mark Coulton’s commentary in The Courier, on March 5, particularly the call for a ceasefire in Gaza. While there is no doubt that there is much suffering in the region, it is worth remembering that Israel did not start the current war, but was attacked by terrorists waging a bloodthirsty, medieval, genocidal war against civilians.
If there is a ceasefire now, the result would be a regrouped, re-equipped Hamas. Israel cannot allow Hamas to continue to exist. They pose an existential threat to Israel, the only democracy in the region. Israel is an Australian ally, and their intelligence has helped to thwart terrorist attacks here. The former government, and the current one, funded the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNWRA), and that organisation is complicit in the atrocities committed on October 7.
Hamas’ stated aim is to wipe Israel, and all Jews, out.
The suffering in Gaza is caused largely by Hamas hiding behind its civilians. It is in their perverse interests that there are many civilian deaths.
That is why I believe Mr Coulton’s call for a ceasefire is misguided. What of the hostages still held by the barbarians?
Here in Australia, before Israel even responded, the authorities shamed us all by condoning the illegal protests at the Opera House where racist hate speech was broadcast around the world.
The authorities did nothing, and continue to do nothing while Imams spew their hate in the mosques. All the while the mobs are assisted by the ‘Useful Idiots’ of the Left. The Jews are not colonisers and were in Palestine centuries before Mahommed walked the Earth. I thought anti Semitism had been dealt with at the end of World War II. I was wrong. It is alive and well, and the lack of leadership against it is not-so-tacit support for it.
Mr Coulton’s ‘all I ask is that we don’t take sides’ is not a realistic assessment. The choice is between the survival of a civilised, liberal democracy, that is Israel, and a barbaric terrorist organisation that kills, rapes, maims and takes hostages.
It is appalling that some people in Australia are fearful of walking the streets and attending their schools and places of worship. It is an Australia that I do not recognise.
Peter Lee
Narrabri
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Response to call for a ceasefire
Mar 7, 2024
I refer to Member for Parkes Mark Coulton’s commentary in The Courier, on March 5, particularly the call for a ceasefire in Gaza. While there is no doubt that there is much suffering in the region, it is worth remembering that Israel did not start the current war, but was attacked by terrorists waging a bloodthirsty, medieval, genocidal war against civilians.
If there is a ceasefire now, the result would be a regrouped, re-equipped Hamas. Israel cannot allow Hamas to continue to exist. They pose an existential threat to Israel, the only democracy in the region. Israel is an Australian ally, and their intelligence has helped to thwart terrorist attacks here. The former government, and the current one, funded the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNWRA), and that organisation is complicit in the atrocities committed on October 7.
Hamas’ stated aim is to wipe Israel, and all Jews, out.
The suffering in Gaza is caused largely by Hamas hiding behind its civilians. It is in their perverse interests that there are many civilian deaths.
That is why I believe Mr Coulton’s call for a ceasefire is misguided. What of the hostages still held by the barbarians?
Here in Australia, before Israel even responded, the authorities shamed us all by condoning the illegal protests at the Opera House where racist hate speech was broadcast around the world.
The authorities did nothing, and continue to do nothing while Imams spew their hate in the mosques. All the while the mobs are assisted by the ‘Useful Idiots’ of the Left. The Jews are not colonisers and were in Palestine centuries before Mahommed walked the Earth. I thought anti Semitism had been dealt with at the end of World War II. I was wrong. It is alive and well, and the lack of leadership against it is not-so-tacit support for it.
Mr Coulton’s ‘all I ask is that we don’t take sides’ is not a realistic assessment. The choice is between the survival of a civilised, liberal democracy, that is Israel, and a barbaric terrorist organisation that kills, rapes, maims and takes hostages.
It is appalling that some people in Australia are fearful of walking the streets and attending their schools and places of worship. It is an Australia that I do not recognise.
Peter Lee
Narrabri