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