Paul Morland

Paul Morland is a senior member at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers

Hamas blew Gaza’s golden opportunity

Whatever else the arguments concerning the Gaza War, none is more wrong-headed than the suggestion that Gazans were living in such straitened circumstances that they had no choice but to ‘break out’ on 7 October. Palestinian solidarity protestors routinely describe Gaza as a ‘prison camp’. Even the Foreign Secretary David Cameron has previously used that