A reply to Jason Cowley on Gaza

Alan Johnson responds to the NS editor’s article about Israel, Gaza and the left.

(Photo By A picture taken from the Israeli border shows the sun setting over the Gaza strip. Photo: Getty)

I write in reply to Jason Cowley’s blog in which he referenced my Daily Telegraph blog about Jon Snow.

My blog claimed that Jon Snow has three illusions about Hamas: he thinks Hamas are a negotiating partner-in-waiting being ignored by Israel, but they aren’t; that Hamas grew as a popular reaction to the blockade, but it didn’t; and that the ordinary people Snow talks to in Gaza can speak freely about Hamas, but they can’t.