By the time I sat down to write this week’s column the process of moral equivocation had begun. Instead of Israel being seen as the victim of a wicked, barbaric terrorist attack by a wicked barbaric terrorist group, people were beginning to talk about the hapless, terrified civilians in Gaza. References to Gaza being the world’s largest open-air prison were made and images of women and children wandering the streets with their belongings in their hands showed up on our TV screens. Human rights activists who said nothing as Muslim groups in western cities and university campuses celebrated what Hamas...