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Seán Gibbons's avatar

I agree with everything you have said, except for one thing - the truly ignorant or, perhaps more correctly, uneducated, among those marching in support of Hamas and, by default, against the Jews and Israel are a miniscule minority. Those who chose to side with the Palestinians/Hamas know full well what they are doing and what they are espousing. They do so willingly and unreservedly. I am neither Jewish nor Israeli, in fact I am British-Irish and embarrassed by the level of pro-Palestinian support in Ireland. Those who allege these barbaric terrorists are "freedom-fighters", claim their similarity with the IRA terrorists as justification for their position. Not many in Ireland call the savages of Sinn Fein/IRA "terrorists" so this type of hypocrisy is nothing new. Nor is their willful blindness to the real world consequences of their actions. I stand with Jews and Israel, and have made their fight for humanity my fight too.

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Bernadette Rossen's avatar

I agree with everything you said.

I live in Australia and antisemitism has reared its ignorant head here.

I was ashamed that our Prime Minister didn’t put a stop to the wild, rioting pro Palestinian marches.

Our Jewish protesters were law abiding and well behaved and as you say brave.

My relatives are from Lithuania where they were shamed, beaten and murdered by the Cossacks (Russians and their western neighbours eg Ukrainians) so we fled to Southern Africa were we survived and made good.

I am ashamed that Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Penny Wong, went to Gaza and Israel with her mind made up to add an extra $21m aid to Palestine.

She did not even bother to visit the relatives of the hostages.

All aid monies are going straight into the hands of Hamas.

Why is the world so ignorant?

We will survive this. Get the hostages back alive or dead but never allow Hamas to share a border with Israel again.

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