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It is time to get tough with the bully Israel has become

On hearing that I had just returned from Israel, a certain Glasgow taxi driver one day put it to me straight.

“Israelis or Palestinians: who is right, who is wrong?” As he repeated the question over the noise of the traffic, I felt my heart sink.

Here we go again, I thought, knowing that whatever answer I gave, it was sure to be controversial.