There was long been a swell of sympathy for Hamas in the West. A certain leader of the opposition, you will remember, referred to them as his ‘friends’ and said that the UK government classifying them as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was a ‘big, big historical mistake’. He did not condemn Hamas this week. And he is not alone. The mass rallies on the streets of Britain in recent days have shown the level of support for a barbarism that for years has been quietly accommodated in this country.
If Gaza is an ‘open-air prison’, the true jailers are Hamas
It is depressing how few people on that side of the argument have changed their position in the light of the savagery in Israel. Recent events have shown the world what Israel has been dealing with for decades: a species of intense jihadi savagery previously seen only in Islamic State.
Reports of babies murdered and civilians burnt alive.
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