Liat, what the Elders of the ALP have done and what the ALP threatens to do on this issue is detrimental to Australia’s interests.
They delude themselves into believing that only the Jews would be the victims of their misguided, immoral , nonsensical schemes, and that doesn’t bother them at all.

Roy

It was certainly not my intention to make you feel that I was rebuking you.

I have been the recipient of abuse you could not imagine from anonymous commentators who have no answers to the articles I publish.

I consider that to be evidence they have no answers to contradict or dispute the matters raised in my articles.

In the case of our 65 prominent persons – they need to answer the questions posed in my article about their understanding of what they were signing.

I am sure many of them would be Christians and fail to understand that in signing the statement they were trashing the Old Testament – the basis of their own religion and the Jewish religion.

None of them has sought to justify their signing the statement.

Maybe some readers – including yourself – would like to write to them directly and seek their response and advise readers what they say.

You are too lenient. Believing they have “naive” intent
Is not helpful. It doesn’t really matter HOW they believe – it matters WHAT !
Don’t let their “humble” ignorance fool you. They are guilty of
Being shamed.

I rang the Canberra Parliamentary Office of my Federal member, drawing their attention to PW’s statement, and saying I was aware of a shift in Labor Party line in regard to Israel/Palestinians, augmented by the likes of Lee Rhiannon. I said they would never receive a vote from me again if they so arrogantly interfered in this way in the affairs of state of Israel, supporting Palestinian statehood without regard to Israel’s security. It would put me in a difficult position, because as a person with socialist democratic leanings, I cannot vote Liberal Coalition. I am only one voice, but it’s important to use it.

It was Goebbels who said, ‘If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.’ How things come around full circle: this is exactly what we see now before our very eyes. So many, it seems, are both intellectually lazy and stupid.

What a gentleman you are David.
I accept the rebuke and unreservedly apologize if any of them is offended by my printed observation.

Hawke and Rudd did not sign the statement.

They are a different case altogether.

Trying to deal with the views of people rushing into print basing their opinions on false facts is a long and difficult job. Unless they are challenged – their opinions -if stated often enough by them or others – soon become accepted as being true.

There was a guy who made such type of propaganda famous with these famous words:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

His name was G******S.

A pat on the back if you can guess his name.

Roy

I don’t think it helps to denigrate the signatories themselves.

Concentrate on the message they have sent and don’t shoot the messanger.

Erica

See my reply to Leon Poddebsky.

Indeed if more than one person writes to these prominent Australians questioning them signing the statement they did then it could be the pressure valve to elicit a response they might otherwise have not made.

I believe that everyone should be given the benefit of the doubt and the opportunity to explain why they hold the opinions they do when challenged – as I have done here in my article.

These 65 prominent Australians need to tell us why they have accepted the terms of Resolution 2334 declaring that the Jewish Quarter, the Kotel and the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and the Machpelah in Hebron are located on “Occupied Palestinian Territory”.

Only then can we determine whether their publicly expressed opinion has any merit or is perhaps based on false facts that have influenced their decision.

Rushing to judgement is not encouraged.

If you can find out the email or facebook addresses of these people – send them a copy of this article and ask them to respond either to you or to JWire direct.

After they reply then we can discuss the matter further. If they refuse to reply we may then be entitled to draw conclusions based on their silence.

Do tell us more Leon.