I just watched something by Andrew Marr on You Tube which quite impressed me. There's plenty I'm not in agreement with Marr on, but I thought he was right to emphasise that there's a need to try to avoid the aggressive falling into one of two camps that social media tends to emphasise. He did this by concentrating on the enormous numbers who would not be entirely pro Hamas or entirely pro Israel.

For myself, I cannot possibly condone what Hamas did nearly a fortnight ago, but, by the same token, Israel's attitude towards the Palestinian people over decades makes it impossible for me not to acknowledge that this has helped create a situation where an organisation like Hama can win elections.

The BBC have had to apologise for saying that the 150,000 to 200,000 who marched in London last weekend were protesting in favour of Hamas when I'm nearly 100 per cent sure that the vast majority of them were there to register their disagreement with the treatment of innocent Gaza citizens.

It's the majority with opinions somewhere in the middle that have to rise above the murderous noise we're hearing from the extremes (unfortunately represented by Hamas and, to a degree, by the Israeli Government) and try to take charge of events, but too many are blithely supporting Israel come what may and indulging Netanyahu and co like they have been is asking for more trouble.