If Australia believes that Israel is right to defend itself, then it is also within its rights to question how it does so. All deaths are tragedies and comparing death tolls is futile, but Palestinian war deaths are now almost 20-fold those of the October 7 massacre. President Joe Biden has called the bombing “indiscriminate”. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week called on Israel to wind down the campaign, lower the blockade and let in supplies to stop disease and famine adding to the toll. Israel insists that it goes out of its way to minimise civilian casualties....