Hamas using the BBC to influence UK government policy

At the Spectator, Melanie Phillips gives voice to something I have long suspected: According to Hamas — an account uncritically swallowed by the Western media — Johnston was kidnapped by a criminal Gaza gang, the Dagmoush family, also known as the Army of Islam, which was said to be at odds with Hamas and to have possible links to al-Qa’eda.Hamas eventually made a deal with the Army of Islam’s