Hamas’s barbarism does not justify the collective punishment of Palestinians | Kenan Malik

Laying siege to a civilian population isn't the same thing as targeting a terrorist organisation

They too have casualties, they too have captives and they have mothers who weep ... Let's make real peace". Not a liberal peacenik speaking from the safety of London or Washington but Yaakov Argamani, whose daughter Noa was taken hostage by Hamas at a music festival near Re'im on Israel's border with Gaza.

I hope I never have to face the torment that now engulfs Yaakov Argamani. But if I do find myself in as dark a place as that, I hope to possess even just a strand of his humanity and moral clarity.

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