Have you not seen that they’re actually making this – it’s gonna be amazing!! I think it’s called danny dyer a geezer in gaza, there’s a fb group for it.

Adam B says: “The media is totally biased towards the israeli’s.” If only. Provide us with say, ten examples then. Oh well, maybe one? This is why we need better coverage of the Middle East and the Israel/Palestine issue, because the media, generally, is so systematically biased against Israel. Especially the BBC. Read the dispatches by Tom Gross or Honest Reporting. Learn about the actual history of the problem and you will see.

But Dave says: “The whole conflict is due to Israel’s occupation.” How naive. The problem with Israel is not that it occupies anything but the space it – Israel itself – is on. The problem is its very existence and this has an ancient historical context which is lost on most. Everything else is merely secondary. The Jews were persecuted by the Romans, but have a special place in Islamic literature and theology: in the Qur’an and Hadith they are depicted as Islam’s eternal enemy. The Jews have been demonised since the inception of Islam, when Muhammad said `there shall not be two religions on the [Arabian] peninsula.’ Thus the problem is not `Zionism’ but rather an uncompromising ideology – Islam – which makes no room whatsoever for a Jewish state: especially in lands once conquered by Islam there can be no relenting in aspirations for a return to Islamic rule. Do I need to remind anyone that as soon as Israel was announced in 1948 it was invaded by 8 surrounding Arab states? All Arab animosity towards Israel stems from this historical non-acceptance of a Jewish state in what was once part of the Islamic Caliphate.

To get this crystal clear: Israel was not built on ’stolen land’. It was in fact built upon land which Jews have lived since the second millennium BC, under Joshua and King David. The Romans took over the Jewish kingdom following its revival in 168 BC, suppressing a number of revolts. `Palestine’ was the name given to the Kingdom of Judea by the Romans in order to de-Judaise it after the Philistines, earlier coastal inhabitants. There were no `Palestinians’. Later, in the 7th Century, the Jews who lived in Jericho included refugees from Muhammad’s bloody massacre and expulsion of the Jewish tribes living on the Arab peninsula. According to Islamic sources trusted by Muslims (Ibn Ishaq) the men of the Jewish Qurayzah tribe were mass murdered by decapitation and the women sold into slavery; other Jewish tribes including the Khaybar were driven from the peninsula to settle in modern-day Israel.

There were no people known as the “Palestinians” – they were, and are, simply Arabs. There was never a “Palestinian” state or homeland. This was acknowledged at the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations in Jerusalem, February 1919, which convened to choose “Palestinian” representatives for the Paris Peace Conference; they adopted following resolution: “We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.” Furthermore, the statement from the representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted to the General Assembly in May 1947 said that “Palestine was part of the Province of Syria” and that, “politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity.” Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council a few years later “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” The myth of the “Palestinians” is sadly a bi-product of Arab Muslim geopolitics, a tool to wrench land from the Jews, the hatred of which is deeply entrenched in Islamic scripture, law and culture.

Killing civilians is wrong, on both sides, but let me tell you: “suicide bombings” (started in the 90) is not the reason for the existence of the conflict nor the rockets (started after 2000).

The issue here is the injustice that the Palestinians had/have to live with for the past 60 years or so. As long as that justice is missing then I’m afraid there will be always blood, suffering on both side and propaganda films like Ross Kemp who is clearly trying to clean up Israel’s image in the west after it’s criminal war on the people of Gaza.