The guest of honour was a Hamas man, Mustafa Shawer, who'd just been released by the Israeli's after being detained for 20 months without trial.

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The publication of Unhitched has prompted many Hitchens defenders, a group which never appears to be in short supply among political writers, to man the battlements to defend the honour of their departed comrade.

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