As the governments of the U.K., Canada and France announce their intent to recognize a Palestinian state, I recall the words of C.S. Lewis, so aptly quoted by President Ronald Reagan in his famous “evil empire” speech.

“The greatest evil is not done now … in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is … not even done in concentration camps and labour camps. In those, we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.”

Evil celebrates in a world that carries all the pretence of civilization but has long abandoned any sense that principle is relevant or that in

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