This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Oh, three minutes after ten. Very good morning indeed to you. I hope you had a great weekend. I said to you a few times last week that the conversations about matters Middle East are among the most harrowing, the most difficult that I conduct on this programme. And then I've thought afterwards, what a stupid thing that was to say. Talk about the world's tiniest violin. I mean, number one, I don't have to talk about it. I choose to. And number two, oh, it's so harrowing and psychically exhausting to sit in a cozy studio in the west end of London,

chatting about events on the other side of the world.

The events that we're going to open the program with today are a little closer to home.

The events in North London, which, to be

absolutely clear, were, I mean, tragically believable, but utterly despicable.

The idea of opening up your bedroom window on a Sunday morning to see a convoy of cars

driving past, out of which one character with a megaphone appears to be shouting a word I can't say,

the Jews, rape their daughters, language which has been lifted almost verbatim from the Islamic

state handbook, is almost beyond my comprehension. It's customary at this point to insert

comparisons. No dogs, no blacks, no Irish signs that were routine in

boarding house windows well, well, well within living memory. And it is also, of course,

given that any conversation about what happened in North London yesterday and how broader

representative it may be, more broadly representative of views it may be, is obviously

immediately underpinned by the continuing and unfolding tragedy on the Gaza Strip, where

what's probably best described as asymmetric or asymmetric warfare sees continuing exchanges of fire

that leave incredibly more people dead and injured on one side of the battle lines than they ever will on the other.

And so it continues.

The most dispiriting analysis I've heard in a while is from one of

the best correspondence in the area talking about when you have this massive imbalance, when you have

this huge asymmetry of both military capability and inevitably therefore civilian casualties,

it's very hard for the one with all the power to stop. We touched on

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