Emile Zola once wrote an article, entitled "J'accuse", attacking the French government for wrongly convicting an innocent man, the Jewish Dreyfus, and sending him to the infamous "Devil's Island" penal colony.
In modern times, another brilliant journalist, John Pilger, attacked the American government for its inhuman devastation of Vietnam.
Jean Calder's deeply moving feature, "Life has no joy while innocent die" (The Argus, July 22), reveals a great tragedy as well as her pain.
In the past, many Jewish scholars and the newly-formed new world of the USA were in the vanguard of the Enlightenment. Now, Jean Calder shows Israel in the 21st Century as an "attack dog" for the USA and her superb but chilling contrast between our happy, fun-loving home life and the war crimes being committed by Israel puts her, in my opinion, high on the list for Journalist of the Year.
-Christopher Fox-Walker, Easbourne
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