The other issue I wish to raise relates to the current war, the threat that it will escalate and the extraordinarily brave decision by the Turkish Parliament, which listened to its people, in the face of the most extraordinary levels of bribery. This issue must given further consideration. In the context of what the Turkish Parliament has done, I wish to place on record my view – I believe it is that of most people – that the deliberate destruction yesterday of a Mosque in Gaza by the Israeli armed forces was about as offensive and wrong an act as any country in the democratic world has ever carried out. I do not care what are the reasons or excuses, bulldozing people's centres of religious practice is about as offensive and as close to racism as one can get. It was an appalling act.