Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Israel has a right to defend itself, and judging its security decisions from a distance is “very difficult”, as Israel’s government vows to cut off food and water to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

  • jetA
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    1 year ago

    That is a polite way of saying the optics of the situation are awful and you want to admonish your ally but not openly criticize them.

    • GroteStreet 🦘@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Also, “what you’re doing is real shitty, but we can’t really talk about human rights abuses without making ourselves look like hypocrites”.