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Read more about the article Appeasing extremists leads to disaster
At a rally in Newcastle against the visit of the Israeli president. Photo by Lily Ray.

Appeasing extremists leads to disaster

Comment by Greg Ray By appeasing Israel's extremist ruling regime and its supporters, Australia's governments - Federal and state - have done this country and its people a grave disservice. Almost every step of the way since the Hamas attack in October 2023, Australia's governments have caved in to extremist demands to facilitate and excuse Israel's atrociously disproportionate genocidal response. Worse, they have also caved into almost every absurd ambit demand from the pro-genocide extremists to crush the right of Australians to point out and protest against the actions of Israel's disgraceful Netanyahu government. With over-the-top…

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Read more about the article No, Trump isn’t Hitler, but . . .
Cover of a 1939 issue of the Australian magazine, The Insider.

No, Trump isn’t Hitler, but . . .

Until recently an accepted rule of political debate was that the first person to mention Hitler automatically lost the argument. Hitler was regarded as such a special case that nobody alive could be mentioned in the same breath. Among the many special achievements of Donald Trump may be the redundancy of this long-standing rule. Donald Trump isn't Adolf Hitler, though I suspect in some ways he might like to be. Many people these days are making the Trump-Hitler comparison, but it doesn't stand up to close examination. Sure, Trump's a populist, but his appeal isn't anywhere…

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The iron law of evil

Evil begets evil. All human experience, all our religious teachings, our myths and legends and the deepest voices of our conscience tell us so. It's an iron law and it will never change. Please remember this when the brainwashers point their propaganda hoses at your head. People with many different motivations and agendas have long used moments of intense public pain to promote their points of view and achieve their goals. When you hear them now, in voices of reason or outrage, expounding their long-prepared talking points, please stop and think before you let yourself be…

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