Facebook is a great way to get a discussion going, even now and again to have a good old argument. I tend to be more of a broadcaster than a reader — these golden words (or at least the link to them) go up on Facebook every week.
In the middle of this, Paddy Cosgrave’s decision to issue a cack-handed tweet, effectively ignoring what Hamas had done in the interests of his own moral superiority, and then to double down on it (“I refuse to relent”) was a catastrophically stupid thing to do. He has the clout to get away with that kind of thing here, but in the middle of a terrible conflict his comments could have only one outcome.