Moderately Moral

As will be apparent from all the difference it has made, the Archbishop of Canterbury recently spent four days in Jerusalem to show solidarity towards those afflicted with the true and correct variety of the Abrahamic delusion. A statement issued just before he left the UK, in which His Grace tactfully refrained from advising the far-right rulers of the nuclear-armed Christ-killer state to turn the other cheek, has drawn the ire of Palestinian Christians, who observed that the Archbishop ranked the violence of the occupier and the violence of the occupied according to the same hierarchy of heinousness recognised by His Majesty's Government and its big brother in the White House. Atrocities committed against the state of Israel are evil crimes against God and humanity; atrocities committed by the state of Israel are, at worst, a disproportionate response to an existential threat. On his return to the mainland, the Archbishop informed an audience of chums, catamites and corpses that excessive cleansing in Gaza would be a Bad Thing because "the more heavy the casualties, the less chance there is of a renewed peace." When the learned ex-oilman Dr Welby, who read history at Cambridge, thinks peace last broke out in occupied Palestine remains as yet unclear.