(Telegraph-UK) Editorial - Leading Friday prayers in Tehran as the anniversary of the Oct. 7 pogrom approached, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised Hamas's attack as "legitimate" and justified. If the Oct. 1 barrage of missiles had not made it perfectly clear where the moral high ground in the region lies, justifying the calculated murder of civilians should have removed any remaining doubt for rational onlookers. Yet we know that when it comes to Israel, many onlookers hold the Jewish state to a standard far above that maintained for other nations, even as they make excuses for those who wish to wipe it from the map. The result is that when we should be lending our fullest support to an ally, our leaders are instead urged to disavow it. It is time that Britain rediscovered its backbone, and stood up for what is right.
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