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       Would you want to live next door to someone with pro-Hamas sympathies, who spouted the toxic narrative of Jihadi warfare and was – potentially – a threat to the security of this nation? Or would you expect the UK Government to do everything in its power to ensure that such potentially dangerous characters were prevented from crossing our borders? Well, judging by the amount or pearl-clutching after two Labour MPs were prevented from entering Israel because they were said to pose a security risk, perhaps the answers aren't quite so clear cut. Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang,were refused entry because they were suspected of plans to "document Israeli Security forces and spread hateful rhetoric".

       Why shouldn't they be booted out? As a sovereign nation, Israel is mandated to protect its people and its borders. Visitors to the country like myself are only too aware of how Israel has no choice but to operate the highest level of security – since it endures constant terror threats from without and within. So why should it roll out the welcome mat for two British MPs whose public statements about the country are built on sand and whose words do so much to trigger anti-Israel hatred?

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       However in this country, the performative outrage surrounding Israel's actions reveals something far more worrying. Namely how pathetically ill-equipped we are in the UK, to pull up the drawbridge when there is suspicion of a security threat.

       Indeed attempts to stop extremists staying in this country have repeatedly failed. Thwarted instead by red tape, ignorance, appeasement by the police and the ever present interference of human rights hand-wringers whose moral relativism continues to leave us vulnerable.

       Last year Sir William Shawcross, author of a review on the UK's counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent, revealed that his warnings regarding Hamas extremism were being ignored.

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       Spool forward a year and we have seen the harrowing outcome of shortcomings of the Government's counter-radicalisation programme in many ways. Not least in the terrible actions of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana.

       For the Prevent counter-terrorism scheme "prematurely" closed its case on Rudakubana three years before he went on to murder three children on that terrible day last July. Meanwhile there have been countless examples of those with potentially nuclear CVs being allowed to stay here in the UK.

       Earlier this year it was revealed that physicist Dr Saleh Al-Atabi – described as Saddam’s ‘weapons chief’ – is living and working in Britain, despite his asylum application being initially rejected and opposed by two Home Secretaries.

       And just a few days ago an immigrations tribunal ruled that a rapist’s criminal record was so bad he couldn't be deported back to his home country of Jamaica ... because he might be blocked from getting witness protection (Me neither).

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       Perhaps we should not be astonished that the likes of David Lammy – so noisy in his condemnation of Israel's actions – fails to focus on the failings of our own national security.

       The Foreign Secretary has stormed that the decision by the Israeli authorities to refuse entry to the MPs was "unacceptable, counterproductive and deeply concerning".

       Yet Lammy has also said he would seek an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the UK. In other words his party's MPs can go wherever they like spouting dangerously inflammatory rhetoric which could compromise security.

       Yet Netanyahu, the democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation under attack from terrorists, cannot. His double standards are both laughable and deeply troubling.

       It should be noted that according to the Israeli embassy, Mohamed and Yang Declined to petition the courts to appeal Israel's decision. And so they were deported and flown home to the UK.

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       Perhaps the twosome didn't want to bring attention to Israel's democratic processes and preferred to be hailed as martyrs by other useful idiots.

       At least in refusing legal challenges, they can go back to serving their constituents – where they belong. But as the smelling salts continue to be passed around about their abortive trip to the Holy Land, those who criticise Israel's actions shouldn't crow too loudly about its draconian security processes.

       Unless they can look over their fence and be absolutely assured they can 'love thy neighbour' as they should.