Yesterday I was watching Jeremy Bowen on News at Ten inside Gaza talking to a ‘leading Hamas member’, Dr Ahmed Yusef amid the rubble of Rafah. When Bowen (a reporter who is often scandalously one-sided in his reporting of Israel) asked him about the Israeli bombing he repeated a version of Sir Gerald’s words in the House of Commons one week earlier (“We had an IRA bomb in Manchester which destroyed much of the centre – we didn’t send troops over to Belfast to murder 1,000 Catholics”). The Hamas representative, an apparently mild-mannered, smartly-dressed, middle-aged man said: “When 14(sic) years and more the IRA bombing London and some British cities, I never heard that the British government sent F16(s) or any of the military might they have to destroy Belfast”.
The similarity between these statements cannot be coincidence.
Thus a prominent British Jew provides the script for Israel’s enemies, and just as Kaufman’s false analogy goes unchallenged, so does Yusef’s. My post of last week have been proven to be correct: Sir Gerald does indeed provide succour to Israel’s enemies.