As six of Australia’s former prime ministers express their dismay at the loss of innocent life in Israel and Gaza, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has backed US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s warning that even as Israel rightly defends itself, it cannot be at an ever-mounting cost in Palestinian civilian deaths.
Those goals are very hard to balance, yet Israel must if it is to maintain goodwill with the allies and neighbours it needs for a workable settlement in Gaza when the fighting stops. The fight is existential and the cycle of violence has now become extreme. Nobody can unsee the images from the kibbutzim of southern Israel or the bombed streets of Gaza. Everyone wants it to stop. The blood being shed on both sides is displayed with all the immediacy and distortion of social media.But they also say “the legitimate objective of defeating Hamas must be accompanied by support and protection of the civil population of Gaza”.
There is often a strange double standard at work. Israel is expected to declare ceasefires that reward Hamas. Yet there were no mass global protests by progressives when the Syrian government and Russia flattened Arab cities like Aleppo, as if nothing better should be expected from them.
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