- by Andy Alcock
- The Guardian
- Issue #2153
The (real) greatest threat
Dear Comrade
Thank you for giving front page cover to the article “Israel’s Nuclear Threat” by M Santos (Guardian 7 June 2025).
It clearly shows that the most dangerous nation in the Middle East is Israel with the backing of the US.
The leaders of both nations – Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump – illustrated this by their unprovoked attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites claiming that they were the greatest threat to the region. They hypocritically did not admit that Iran has no nuclear weapons and that Israel does, and that Israel has been responsible for most of the conflicts in the Middle East since it was founded in 1948.
These actions reminded us of George W Bush’s, Tony Blair’s and John Howard’s “weapons of mass destruction” argument as the reason for the Coalition of the Willing’s unprovoked attacks on Iraq in 2003 that led to the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, much human suffering and the devastation of the country.
Those weapons that Iraq supposedly had were called “weapons of mass deception” because they didn’t exist, showing that the justification of that unnecessary war was based on a lie.
Following these attacks, Australia’s leaders made no criticism and repeated the same dubious reasons for them as Netanyahu and Trump. Australians who care about peace, human rights and the international rule of law are sickened by the hypocrisy of our leaders as they continue to support the belligerent actions of Zionist Israel and the US even while Israeli soldiers are shooting starving Palestinian civilians seeking food at distribution points in Gaza.
In the 1970s, when the extreme right wing, racist and apartheid Afrikaaner regime was committing brutality against black Africans in Africa, western leaders – including Bob Hawke – took effective action which contributed to South Africa becoming a democratic nation.
Albanese, Wong, and Marles seem to lack the courage to speak out about the ethnic cleansing and warmongering that is currently occurring in Palestine and are intent on continuing to keep AUKUS as the cornerstone of our defence. This means that Australia will be more embedded into belligerent US policies and the huge amounts being spent on the production of US nuclear-powered submarines will mean that the government will not be able to fund effective social justice and environmental policies they have promised. Already the Albanese Government has paid $4.8 billion to the US submarine manufacturing industry. This money is needed for programs to meet human needs.
We need a government that speaks out about crimes against humanity and that moves to making Australia a free, independent and non-aligned nation.
Yours sincerely
Andy Alcock
