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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/24/sarah-mullally-palestine-gaza-israel-archbishop-cofe/
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Palestinian Victimhood Narrative
(Telegraph-UK) Bijan Omrani - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, delivered a sermon on Sunday (June 21) at St. Peter's Church in the Palestinian town of Birzeit. It is all very well for the Archbishop to call for peace and the recognition of dignity, but of what substance is this call unless it is also accompanied by an equal demand for repentance by those complicit in Palestinian terror campaigns that have made peace less likely than ever? Does she not realize the consequence of repeating a narrative where the Palestinian people are nothing more than the helpless victims? Of omitting to condemn the repeated refusals of the Palestinians to accept serious offers of peace over the generations, not to mention declining to excoriate the brutality of Hamas, the demand of their founding charter to eradicate Jews, their hiding behind civilians, and the complicity of ordinary Palestinians in the terror wrought by Hamas? Mullally's embrace of this Palestinian victimhood narrative will simply make it more difficult to combat the terrorism and totalitarianism of Hamas, which is the more fundamental cause of the misery of the people and the prolonging of the conflict - not to mention the oppressive treatment of Christians in their territory.