Is anybody fooled by ‘peace-lover’ Corbyn?

ONE great lie underpins all Jeremy Corbyn’s dealings with terrorist groups and their cheerleaders, from the IRA and Sinn Fein to his viscerally anti-Semitic ‘friends’ in Hamas and Hezbollah.

Forget his evasions and obfuscations over his attendance at a wreath-laying ceremony in 2014 to honour the masterminds of the Munich Olympics massacre of 1972, in which nine Israeli athletes and two other hostages were tortured and killed.

In this paper’s opinion, the photographic evidence proves he took part in paying homage to the Black September terrorists responsible for that infamous atrocity. But we leave it to readers to decide if he is telling the truth when he admits he was present at the wreath-laying, but adds: ‘I don’t think I was actually involved in it.’

No, the great lie he peddles when he seeks to excuse his links with mass murderers is that he’s interested only in peace. As he put it this week: ‘You can only pursue peace by a cycle of dialogue.’

Is he asking us to believe that his purpose in sharing platforms with terrorist apologists is to persuade them through dialogue to lay down their arms and pursue their goals by democratic means?

If so, why doesn’t he say this loudly and clearly to his audiences – instead of ranting constantly against Israel, America or Britain’s role in Northern Ireland?

The ineluctable truth, surely, is that Mr Corbyn is on the terrorists’ side. Indeed, his appearances on their platforms or at the gravesides of their dead can only give comfort to the men of violence – while sending out a hugely dangerous signal that he believes bombs and bullets are legitimate means of securing political ends.

As Gordon Brown observed yesterday, Mr Corbyn has got to change if he wishes to prove himself fit for public office. To which the Mail can only add: