Gaza Work

One letter writer suggests a program for offering free flights to bring in doctors, tradespeople and other professionals from Gaza to fill the needs of Australian residents of Uralla and similar towns (Letters, September 3). Wouldn’t it be better for our government to openly support a two-state solution in Palestine and pressure our American friends to stop supplying arms and finance to Israel, thereby perhaps ending the current conflict? I am sure, then, that those doctors, tradespeople and other professionals in Gaza could devote their energies to rebuilding a country that has been left in ruins. Perhaps we could even provide free flights via Qantas to send doctors, tradespeople and other professionals to assist in this process.

Michael Bright, Moss Vale

If we were to lure doctors, educators, electricians and plumbers from Gaza to ameliorate our shortages, this country would become a contributor to the current and future parlous plight of 2 million people who have nothing left but these same people to care for them, and to rebuild out of the rubble of what was their homes.

Andrew Cohen, Glebe