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Israel's order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong (www.abc.net.au)
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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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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The flip side of that coin is it's pretty bad to make a independent population, who can't vote in your elections, totally dependent on you. Preventing them from having independent sources of water electricity and food. Preventing them from self-determination and self-governance.

This all ties back to the core issues here. There's a population that has no autonomy, no say in its future, no say and it's foreign policy, de facto non-citizens in the state they can't participate in. That's not a stable situation, in any society.