Army of evil

IF the BBC shamefully won’t make the distinction for fear of upsetting its audiences in the Middle East, let us be totally clear:

The devastating attack on innocent Israelis was carried out by terrorists.

Hamas are not freedom-fighters.

They are an army of thugs and murderers funded by a rogue terrorist state — Iran.

Israel — doubly struck from Palestine in the south and Lebanon in the north — has suffered its own 9/11.

More than 600 killed, thousands injured and many more missing, feared dead.

Our hearts go out to the families of those young people who simply went to a music festival and will never come back.

And to the relatives of bewildered elderly women and toddlers kidnapped at gunpoint.

What possible justification for this can there ever be?

It was sickening to see gleeful mobs dancing in the streets of London waving Palestinian flags hours after the carnage.

Worse was the clapping and cheering of pro-Palestinian activists celebrating the deaths of Israelis at a fringe event at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool today.

All supported by Labour MP Apsana Begum who sat there smiling for the cameras.

What action have Labour chiefs — having suffered years of accusations of anti-Semitism in its ranks — taken against her?

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None yet.

Any party which aspires to sensible and serious Government must kick out these vile hard-Left fascists once and for all.

Israel’s blackest day since the Yom Kippur War of 1973 leaves the Middle East once more on the brink of all-out war.

After his blatant abandonment of the people of Afghanistan in 2021, US President Joe Biden once more stands accused of complacency.

He ordered the unfreezing of $6billion of Iranian assets in return for five US hostages.

Money which — for all the supposed safeguards in place — will almost certainly find its way to Hamas and Hezbollah.

Israel will do all it can to smash the terrorists.

Internationally, support must now be unequivocal and decisive.

Dinghy dunce

SIR Keir Starmer insists he would scrap the Rwanda scheme without even knowing if it works or not.

Yet it stands as our only possible solution to the small boats crisis.

Experts reckon if we deported just 2,000-3,000 illegal migrants to Africa it would stop the people-smuggling trade across the Channel in its tracks.

For ex-lawyer Starmer to ditch it without testing the evidence means he either has a better plan that he somehow hasn’t told us about yet.

Or he’s still in hock to the left wingers in his party who blindly hate it.