And there has been an obvious failure, on the part of those denouncing Israel in these latest posts, to have taken any cognisance of the vital point made above by the Canadian minister: that Israel and Hamas are not equivalent entities: one being a sovereign state within the international community, with the responsibilities of all and any such for the safety of its citizens; the other being a recognised illegally operating terrorist body threatening the safety and security of those citizens. This way of going on as if they were opponents facing one another on equal political or moral terms is a manifest absurdity.

~M~