Trump’s perverse AI vision of the “Gaza Riviera” development makes one wonder what sort warped mind is running a country that was once a beacon of freedom and democracy (“Trump ‘floods the zone’ with bizarre AI video of future Gaza where he is king”, February 27). Now we witness some of the most self-obsessed, self-serving behaviour and the debasement of the great principles America was once founded on. The horrifying thing is that this is only the beginning. Chris Gresham, Upper Lansdowne
Michael Koziol’s article confirms earlier impressions of President Trump as a crass individual who sadly missed out on learning the basics of human decency. The gaudy The Trump Gaza promotional video was excruciating enough with its depiction of luxurious living where hunger, poverty and devastation are the reality. But even worse was the huge, gold statue of Donald Trump himself. Mary Julian, Glebeclip of Trump’s future Gaza – complete with shots of himself, Benjamin Netanyahu and Elon Musk cavorting by a hotel pool belong in a tourist promo for the Miami Trump calls home. That a world leader can silently smirk about erasing from his development dream the benighted Palestinian people of Gaza says it all. Unlike radio jocks who bad-mouth sporting women, we can’t boot him. Why hasn’t Penny Wong expressed her disgust yet? Ken Blackman, Inverloch
I cannot believe that any nation would tolerate anything as inhumane, racist and sacrilegious as Trump’s Gaza video. Wake up, America, before your “saviour” turns into Beelzebub. John Beattie, Eastwood
Undue influence
The Israeli “influencer” Max Veifer should face serious interrogation by the NSW Police (“Dreyfus seeks Israel’s help as nurse charged over hate video”, February 27). He has clearly cajoled, provoked and “egged on” the two Australian nurses to come out with the alarming and unacceptable statements they made, and I question his motives in going public with the video. If he was trying to help our Jewish community combat the current wave of antisemitism, he has failed and probably exacerbated the situation. All he has achieved is to ensure the lives of two young Australian nurses are ruined through being naïve and extremely foolish under provocation. Veifer, stay out of our affairs and concentrate on “influencing” matters needing attention in Israel. Ken Butler, Mount Colah
In 1968, a group of protesters against the war in Vietnam announced they were going to publicly napalm a dog. Predictably, people were horrified. The protesters had never intended to go ahead with such a cruel act, but they wanted the opportunity to compare public outrage over the possible death of a dog to the commensurate lack of outrage over the use of napalm in Vietnam. This directly parallels the outrage expressed here over statements by nurses that they would kill Jewish patients (which I also condemn), with the commensurate lack of outrage over the killing of more than 40,000 Palestinians. Selective outrage is obviously still alive and well (“Students protest at Sydney school after Muslim staffer told to work from home”, February 27). Lorel Thomas, Blackburn South
