Eamon Sloan

  Israel/Hamas War Where to start in commenting on the Israel/Hamas war? A lifetime could be taken up in reading everything that has been written on the Israel question. A disclosure: We don’t do anti-Semitism in our house. On my wife’s family tree there is, a couple of generations back, a very strong Polish-Jewish connection. We don’t forget those connections. For how much longer must Israel live with the threat of Hamas, Hezbollah and radical Islam? By radical Islam I mean Iran. From what I have read here and there Iran and its radical supporters will not rest until Israel is done away with, or put it another way, until a second Holocaust is complete. This time around Jewish people (i.e. Israel) have the means of defending themselves supported by an uncompromising ally in the form of the United States. Americans have long memories – see paragraph further on. A few comments about New Zealand’s official position on the conflict. The best words I have are that New Zealand’s ...