Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, pronounced last week on Russia’s support for separatists in Ukraine: “They have been supplying them, they have been supporting them . . . They cannot deny their responsibility for the acts that these people are carrying out.” He is right, but the same could be said of the UK’s support for Israel in the current bombardment of Gaza.
It’s almost impossible not to be moved by the bloody and horrific images that are coming out of Gaza. The intensifying conflict has become a humanitarian catastrophe, with much of Gaza’s infrastructure being destroyed and the violence claiming the lives of over 600 Palestinians and 30 Israelis.
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