BOB Carr has done a great service to our country and to the Middle East through his diary and his time as foreign minister. Carr has championed a liberal Israeli human-rights view — albeit a minority view in Israel today — and courageously criticised factions who seek to justify the greater Israel settlement and expansionist view such as promoted by various sections of mainstream Israeli politics, and its Australian supporters.
Carr supports the right of pro-Israel lobbyists to push their perspective. However, Carr’s point is that the pro-Israel perspective being most forcefully pushed is unhealthy and contrary to a pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-peace view that ensures the end of settlement expansion, the end of occupation, and a viable resolution that allows for Palestinians and Israelis to live as neighbours.
Stewart Mills, Balmain, NSW
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