Last month, a senior Hamas official described the decision by Britain and other credulous Western nations to recognise a Palestinian state as 'one of the fruits of October 7'.
In an interview with news channel Al Jazeera, Ghazi Hamad, a member of the terrorist organisation's political bureau, added: 'We proved that victory over Israel is not impossible, and our weapons are a symbol of Palestinian dignity.'
The annals of British statecraft are littered with decisions that have been naive, foolish and downright shameful.
But none to my mind reeks of the moral degeneracy of recognising a Palestinian state – as this government is expected to do today – while 48 hostages remain in the hands of Hamas.
This is to say nothing of the horror of October 7, the worst atrocity committed on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, which has now been rewarded by the British state.
