Uri Raveh

Here’s how I see things at the moment; if a husband knocks seven bells of shite out of his wife and causes her permanent damage,or even kills her, or if a man kills gay people in Sligo and beheads one of his victims, etc etc etc. we hunt them down and punish them and stop them from doing it again. We don’t look at root causes of a bad marriage that led a man to kill his wife, or the root causes of the homophobia that led to murders of gay people. And we should have the same approach to terrorism. If a murderous terrorist organisation rapes your daughters and other very young children, murders your families, kills your grandparents and burns their bodies and kidnaps vulnerable people like babies, young children, the elderly etc then you shouldn’t look at root causes that led them to do that. You hunt them down, punish them and incapacitate them. That’s just and right. If they use their own citizens as human shields you hold them to account for that, nobody else. Just as you wouldn’t come to an accommodation with Lucy Letby, the serial killer nurse that murdered seven babies, or come to an accommodation of any other serial killer, then you shouldn’t come to an accommodation with terrorist groups who deliberately carrying out mass murder. You certainly shouldn’t be looking at coming to an accommodation with Hamas, which is a marauding gang of murderers, rapists, kidnappers and paedophiles