David Aaronovitch made a similar point in the excellent recent podcast series ‘Eight Years Hard Labour’ (thoroughly recommended). He quoted an anti-Corbyn Labour MP saying (I’m paraphrasing): if Corb… (View Post)

Nothing, and if our government was giving implicit or explicit approval to continued outrages from Hamas I’d be posting about that too. (View Post)

So utterly predictable, if depressing: support for Hamas soars in West Bank after October attack. What is Israel achieving other than sowing the seeds of future intractable conflicts? (View Post)

Hmmm…sadly (as I think your answers were very interesting) the way you answered is probably not typical and so your answers will be lost in translation to coded data. Many, I imagine, will have given… (View Post)

Likewise I find myself having a more natural affinity with the Palestinian cause and having to more effortfully empathise with the Israeli one, even though intellectually I can recognise the validity… (View Post)