ACHIEVING LASTING CHANGE PART 2

Imagine if the party branches of Labor, Liberal, Greens , Democrats, Family First and other Australian political parties combined to issue a joint statement condemning the current conflict in Lebanon and Israel. It is unlikely they would encounter much difficulty in reaching consensus on the broad issues....

Imagine if private citizens contacted a group of their friends and did the same.

Imagine if those who knew people living in Australia with Israeli or Lebanese origins (and we have a large number of the latter category in my home of inner-western Sydney!) rang and visited them to offer some degree of support and encouragement.

Imagine if Australians, of Lebanese and Israeli origins, met together to transcend what is happening in the countries they or their parents left, and instead met together to address the conflict as a common problem affecting them both indirectly.

Do you think it would achieve more on a range of levels than if we all just congregated in the street and screamed epithets at our elected officials.

For God's sake can we please just F..ing GROW UP!!! (and I say this in sadness and desperation not anger...we need to wake up and stop being so shallow and insincere.)