Letter

In response to The State Department report on human rights

Blinken and the mote and beam

As the Chinese saying goes; for every finger the US points outward, three fingers point inward. This parallels the biblical story of seeing the mote in your neighbour’s eye but not the beam in your own. Which is very much the case with Anthony Blinken’s latest claim that Hamas is holding up a ceasefire in Gaza. The reality is that it has been possible since the early stages of this conflict for Joe Biden to bring it to a halt, with diplomatic, military and financial pressure. He didn’t, and the deaths of over 30,000 Palestinians lie squarely on him, as do the continuing deaths.

— Geoff Taylor from Perth