In any case, Israel must not be a scapegoat for diverting a world from own internal multi-nation/faith problems, either in the Muslim countries or, realistically, in Australia.

If something could divide the Australians on this issue, it is the timing the Government rightly has rejected participation in the UN-arranged gathering rather than traditionally following London mentors spending money on a trip to a European capital located from Canberra much distantly.

I’m not sure many in the world realise the intense debate that is ongoing in Australia in regards to the entire Israel-Palestinian conflict.

I find it encouraging that after so long of hearing the one-sided Zionist argument, reality is starting to sink in on a public level and people are speaking out.

Ahmedinejad is indeed an interesting character, but should the highlight of the conference be on him or on Israel’s blatant apartheid policies which he condemned? After all, is this not the conference against racism?

We can judge Ahmedinejad as a hypocritical leader of a country that has human rights issues of its own, but don’t all leaders do that? How often do the West bash Iran and China for human rights, yet in the West’s backyard there exists Israel, Guantanamo Bay, and Australian Aboriginals living in third-world squalor?

This conference only demonstrated that the entire world stage is full of hypocrites. It is good to see that many Australians are beginning to realise that and are now refuting the Zionist propaganda they have been fed from Australian governments, the major political parties and the mainstream media for so long.

Antoun,
(GVO Lebanon, although Australian also)