Yesterday Justin Welby quoted the BBC saying: Hundreds feared dead or injured in Israeli air strike on hospital in Gaza:
He is correct, of course, it is an appalling loss of innocent lives. The problem with his tweet, though, is that the hospital was bombed by Hamas, not Israel.
Welby later, in a face-saving backpedal, said “We must exercise restraint in apportioning blame until the facts are clear.” He should have said “I”:
What he failed to note was that the rocket was intentionally aimed at civilians, it just hit the wrong ones.
Yes, indeed. Intentionally aimed at civilians but just hit the wrong ones! Exactly David!
Will the Primate and House of Bishops tweet along with the UK Government’s banning public singing of the PLO/PA/Hez Bollah/Hamas genocidal chant, “From Jordon to the Sea….” and the banning of sermons in Mosques calling for “the murder of the Jews”?