THE recent assault by Hamas on innocent Israeli civilians was barbaric and deserves to be universally condemned and responded to by Israel.
People within Australia, and beyond, seem to have conveniently forgotten Israel's systematic oppression of Palestinians through its regime of controls and illegal settlements. At what point does Israel's right to defend itself in its assault on Gaza become an inhumane and inappropriate assault on equally innocent civilians? One poignant item of graffiti on the 44km wall that surrounds much of the West Bank reminds us: injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
