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.

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We had a period of frontier wars that lasted 150 years. It was grossly asymmetric but the estimates for colonial casualties run into the thousands.

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Were those casualties civilians though, or were they mostly soldiers? That’s the key difference.

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Good thing war is so blank and white, makes it easier to affirm my side is the good side

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There’s one side that have done some very questionable things over the years, and there’s another that went out of their way to massacre civilians. I’m by no means a fan of Israel, but Hamas are outright evil.

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