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Bob Carr calls Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s decision not to join Britain’s West Bank import ban cowardly (“Government slammed for dodging Israeli settlement trade ban”, September 10). I argue the opposite. It is easy to make a symbolic gesture; it is harder to consider whether it actually helps the people it is intended to protect. A blanket ban sounds decisive but it risks hurting Palestinians as well as Israelis. When SodaStream moved its factory from the West Bank to Israel in 2016 following an international boycott…

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