Sir Jeremy Greenstock says Hamas is only about 'resistance'

By Malanie Phillips

I was travelling yesterday, and so only caught up very late with the comments made on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme by the former UK ambassador to the UN and now head of the prestigious Ditchley Foundation, Sir Jeremy Greenstock. Astoundingly, this ornament of the British Great and the Good made a propaganda pitch for Hamas. The claims he made were so patently ludicrous it is hard to believe that any western person, let alone a former senior diplomat, could make them.

First he introduced the much touted analogy between the Arab/Israel conflict and Northern Ireland:

My colleagues and I have introduced Hamas to senior members of Sinn Fein and they are very interested in the precedent, the example of what happened in Northern Ireland.

This analogy is absurd and inappropriate for two principal reasons. First, the Northern Ireland ‘peace process’ became possible only when the IRA declared ‘the war is over’ and asked to become part of the political process instead; and that was only because it had been beaten into at least a stalemate by the British Army and concluded that joining the political process was the only way to achieve its goals.* That is patently not the case with Hamas which is waging uninterrupted war. Read more ...

Source: Spectator