The situation in Israel is getting bleaker by the day. They opened the new American Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday and there were ‘protests’ by Palestinians. Those in the West Bank marched, held signs, shouted comments and generally, protested. Which they have every right to do in a democracy.

What happened in Gaza was different. These ‘protesters’ didn’t have banners and songs, they had slingshots, guns, molotov cocktails, rocks. And more importantly they carried with them the ultimate jihadi ideology. They were not only prepared to die for their cause but happy for anyone else to die too. And die, alas, they did.

There was a dead baby on the news last night. It was awful. She’d had a weak heart apparently and the tear gas from the Israelis caused her death. Which is terrible. But there is one question that the BBC didn’t think to ask:

WHAT THE FUCK WAS A BABY DOING IN WHAT EVERYONE KNEW WAS DESTINED TO BE A WAR-ZONE??? As it has been most days for the past few months.

I would have arrested the mother for gross negligence at best, for cynical exploitation at worst.

This was not a shopping mall. A school, a playground or a hospital. This is a desolate strip of land that is the border between Gaza and Israel. So the poor child was taken there and fulfilled her sweet little naive destiny of becoming the poster-corpse for Hamas. Sacrificed by her parents to become a PR campaign which has been bought at great expense by the BBC and most other media purveyors.

So as the world, including Theresa May, lambasts Israel for the deaths on Monday, there’s other questions that really need to be asked to put this in context.

If the population of Wales all joined ISIS and were intent on the destruction of England and death to all Englishmen, as sworn in their charter, would we open the gates and let them in with open arms? Particularly if they’d spent the last decade firing missiles at us and building tunnels to come over and kill people?

Hamas are ISIS. Hamas were ISIS long before ISIS even existed. They invented the suicide bomber. They used kids to do it. They set up missile launch sites in hospitals and school playgrounds to maximise the impact of any retaliatory strikes. But worst of all, they poison the minds of the normal people, sell them an ideology of death. Quite literally so as the families of suicide bombers are well ‘compensated’ financially by them. The same ideology that ISIS use when sending in entire families of suicide bombers to churches in Indonesia this weekend. Mum, dad and all the kids (young as 8), strapped into bombs and ‘happy’ to die for the cause.

So yes, I mourn the deaths of these poor, misguided, misled people, I mourn all death. But try to keep in mind just with whom Israel has to deal as it tries to protect its people.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx