The concerted efforts of the UK, Australia and Canada in recognising Palestine deserve applause (UK recognises state of Palestine to ‘keep alive’ the possibility of peace, 21 September). It is also a moral duty to expose the tendentious and deeply cynical argument that the UK’s recognition of Palestinian statehood is “rewarding” Hamas.
Conflating Hamas with the struggle of Palestinian people is not only incorrect. It displays callousness in the face of the collective punishment and deliberate killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them women and children, and the accelerated settlement drive in the Palestinian West Bank.
