Obviously, the events in Israel and in Palestine absolutely ghastly but I found it deeply chilling to hear the Israeli defence minister describe the Palestinians as “human animals” as that is precisely the kind of dehumanising insult that was levelled at the Jews in 1930s Nazi Germany! What is that old saying: “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”

The Israelis have treated the Palestinians appallingly ever since the 1950s and it's been getting worse not better. A friend of mine remarked that the Israelis have taken everything from the Palestinians, they confiscate their land without compensation they bulldoze their homes to built homes for settlers, they murder them and their children and finally, they have taken the only thing the Palestinians had left; hope!

Whilst I would never condone the kind of slaughter perpetrated by the Palestinians on the residents of Israel, I can understand it. The Palestinians have literally nothing to live for so it is understandable if instead they choose to die for their cause and take as many Israelis with them as possible. A people without hope and without a future is a very, very dangerous people indeed!