Today’s blog, which responds to Carter’s post “Deceit and Betrayal,” was written by a thoughtful reader who prefers not to be named. I agree with their opinion, and I can’t say it any better.

Carter, you have written a column accusing President Biden of “deceit and betrayal,” reporting that he had “refused to send Israel anymore bombs.”

You’re a smart guy; you must know what you said is not true. What our President has done is pause a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs because he doesn’t want them used in densely populated Rafah. He has “kept his commitment to sell $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel,” according to Newsweek.

Apparently, President Biden thinks a U.N. estimate of 34,500 dead Palestinians, plus twice that many wounded – 100,000 killed or wounded so far – not to mention an estimated $18.5 billion (according to the World Bank and the European Union) infrastructure damage, is enough payback for the scores of people still held hostage by Hamas and the 1,200-plus people its gunmen murdered, including children and women, some of whom of who were also raped and mutilated.

You obviously disagree.

My question, Carter, is this: How much is enough for you?

Would 50,000 dead Palestinians be enough? A hundred thousand? Half a million?  All of them? If you were our president, how many Palestinians would Israel have to kill before you said, “Enough, no more 2,000-pound bombs!”

Remember: If you stop short of “all of them,” some right-wing commentator may accuse you of “deceit and betrayal.”