Surely no right-minded person could fail to be grateful to Saadun Suayeh for his admirable, perceptive and courageous article (August 18).
Almost since its inception, Israel, a state founded and established on terrorism, has literally got away with murder by deliberately and deceitfully implying that those who oppose or criticise its government’s policies are ‘anti-semitic’ and to be identified with the wickedness of Nazi Germany.
Israel is a state like any other, and as Suayeh says, it must be judged by exactly the same standards as every other state. Its current barbaric government has no place in the company of civilised nations.
In order to tackle the impunity with which Israel repeatedly acts, and the virtual immunity from criticism it has enjoyed for so long, the governments to which Suayeh refers (those of the US, Europe and their Arab allies) must clearly condemn Israel’s murderous actions, and, above all, stop supplying the state of Israel with the armaments used to carry them out.
Without that, their pious expressions of regret are worthless.
I echo Susan Bartolo’s heartfelt comments (‘Why do we do nothing?’, August 17).
What with sewage, foam, “service water” and so on, the advisory notice cautioning against swimming citing “extraordinary circumstances” is amusing.
The only extraordinary event would be clean, safe beaches and water.
There are greedy pigs who are hell-bent on ever more tourists suffocating us and too stupid to think of looking after the industry, which is so important that we have to prostitute our sanity, quiet, peace and liveability for.
Carmel Zammit of Naxxar writes:
The government should do the right thing if they really have Malta at heart and withdraw their “planning bills”, which are an in-your-face insult and an existential threat to us all.
So much for this fake ‘consultation process’.
We want our country back from the notorious mega- and not-so-mega developers who act above the law, whose arrogance and greed know no bounds and who have transformed Malta into one big construction site.
We are constantly under attack. In the name of decency, withdraw the planning bills.
Christopher John Linskill of Ħamrun writes:
When I walk through Malta’s towns, I pass by quite a lot of decayed, abandoned, incomplete buildings and property that seems to have had no owner for many years.
There are also some that have been on sale for what seems to have been years and remain unsold.
The question is, if the matter is properly addressed, would this quantity of property be enough to make up for the building of new housing units that is going on at the moment?
Land is a vital commodity for other activities than just housing, as we know.
Maybe the local councils can give us accurate statistics of vacant property. Is it 2.7% or 27%?
