14 August 2014, The Tablet

Baroness Warsi’s selective morality


 
 There’s an irony in Baroness Warsi’s claim that her resignation from Government was because she regarded David Cameron’s stance on Israel as “morally indefensible” (Leading article, 9 August). Did she find the firing of rockets on Israeli civilians by Hamas, long before the onset of Operation Protective Edge, “morally indefensible”? She never said so. This would be out of keeping, anyway, with the welcome she gave on the BBC’s Question Time programme in 2006 for the election to power in Gaza of Hamas, an internationally recognised terrorist organisation, whose charter calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. This power, she said, would be a “taming factor”. In fact, it was followed by the murder of Hamas’ Pal
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