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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/22/how-can-anyone-still-sympathise-with-hamas-israel-gaza/
After What We Have Seen, How Can Anyone Still Sympathize with Hamas?
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - How hard is it to condemn a group that strangles a baby and a toddler, mutilates their corpses with rocks to make it look like they were killed in an airstrike, then returns them amid cheering crowds in locked coffins - no keys provided - with propaganda material stuffed around the bodies? Britain's Prime Minister bravely said he was "deeply saddened" by the deaths but avoided naming the perpetrators, let alone condemning their crimes. The Red Cross, which participated in the grotesque showboating as the bodies were released, issued a gentle plea for "dignity and privacy." I would wager that most people reading this column will be able to cite personal examples of friends, colleagues or acquaintances who have been blaringly vocal about Palestinian suffering but find themselves in a monkish reserve when it comes to the ghoulish butchery of Jewish children and the gleeful desecration of their bodies. If Oct. 7 taught us anything, it is that you can't solve a problem by pretending it doesn't exist. One day, the enemy will find a way to break through the fence and come for your children. We must embrace and empower those who uphold our values while at the same time demanding an end to the soft affection for Hamas. The writer is editor of the Jewish Chronicle-UK.