VIOLENCE IS BAD. Violence deliberately targeted against civilians is evil. It seems rather odd to have to say this. For most of my life this would have been axiomatic but since the pogrom unleashed upon the Jews of Southern Israel on 7 October this seems to have become a heavily contested claim.
This became clear within hours, as the sheer scale of the slaughter started to filter out. While most people might think that stories of hundreds upon hundreds of civilians murdered, of women raped and mutilated,
