I am heartily sick of the misrepresentation of Hamas by the mass media. Every individual and organisation should be heard for what they are, and their views received and understood accurately – not what is alleged by commentators, some of whom have shown malicious prejudice against Hamas.

Therefore, I have undertaken what often seems to me to have been the single-handed and thankless task of ignoring the pundits with their various ideological prejudices and instead noting what Hamas actually says about itself.