The current minimal-confrontation approach too often seems to leave officers tacitly enforcing the codes of the ugliest and most violent sections of society.
First, Islamist extremism will use woke like a human shield. Then, once it has exhausted its purpose, it will cast aside, like that LGBT flag last Saturday.
Doing so will be immensely difficult and will involve fighting in densely populated urban areas, creating enormous risks for both the Israel Defence Forces forces and Gazan civilians.
“But turning off the water affects all Palestinian people, not just Hamas” replies Victoria Derbyshire.
The Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development says “Israel is clearly very anxious about Hamas getting their hands on [fuel] and using it to launch rockets”.
The Immigration Minister adds that “we have confidence that Israel will take all the steps that it can in the circumstances to avoid civilian lives being lost.”
The Hamas support network in the UK is entrenched. But the wider network is also comprised of those who – wittingly or unwittingly – bolster Hamas’s narratives by framing their acts as merely ‘resistance’.
The Prime Minister said that the events over the last few days have “shocked us all”, particularly those at the Gaza hospital where hundreds of people were killed.
Netanyahu may have said: how would you feel, were you lectured by countries without an independent judiciary, let alone the free press, minority rights and fair elections that we have in Israel?
The horrors in Israel and Gaza compelled solemnity and unity for only part of the time: free debate survives.
The Prime Minister argued ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ in the face of SNP calls for a ceasefire.
A situation when Labour, representing the vast majority of seats and votes of British Muslims, becomes a party of Palestine and the Conservatives one of Israel would be antithetical to national harmony.
Our Editor in conversation with Katy Balls and James Heale about yesterday’s Commons statement on the Middle East.
On the evidence of yesterday’s Commons statement, Labour backbench opinion is broadly pro-Palestinian – so pressure on the party leadership’s line is likely to intensify during the weeks ahead.
Earlier this year the Coalition for Global Prosperity set out to teach the next generation of Parliamentary candidates a basic knowledge of defence, diplomacy, and development.