Well I for one am glad that Hamas views Corbyn more favourably than many another western figure. We didn't end the worst of the violence in the Six Counties by refusing to talk. As for the Israel/Palestine conflict being somehow less important, I couldn't agree less. The west's unconditional support for the Israeli regime, despite the latter's egregious outrages, has been at the root of some of the world's worst conflicts of the last thirty or forty years and has helped to spawn all those things we purport to hate so much, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda and IS. We reap what we sow and the sooner we learn that lesson of history the better.