On Oct. 7, Hamas launched a shock assault towards Israel on an unprecedented scale, a brutal and despicable raid paying homage to these carried out by the Islamic State.

In the previous 44 years since I started my diplomatic profession in Iraq after Arabic language coaching in Egypt, I by no means thought that there can be such a ruthless and inhumane killing of harmless civilians within the title of Palestine.

After studying many statements denouncing Hamas from Western capitals, I seen right here in India that the positions of Japan, India and China have been noticeably nuanced, if not counterproductive.