What an inconsistent man. I wish he’d applied such noble principles in other spheres of government when he was PM. He did lots of perfectly legal things which were unethical and wrong. Perhaps he can reflect on his errors when he starts writing his memoirs.

The massacre had already started and if they stayed put they could number among the victims.

They had no passports or documents and, if any were available, they did not have the time to obtain them.

Nor could they afford to alert the authorities of their plans. In many countries, getting papers has never been as simple as Malta where a half hour bus ride takes you to Valletta where you can take of all your administrative matters.

So they just left with the clothes on their back and with their child in its mother’s arms. Many people might have called them foolhardy and say that if anything happened to them, it would be their fault. They might even have called it child abuse. But staying put was not feasible.

They arrived in a foreign country, with a different religion and stayed there until it was safe to go home.

That country was Egypt. The parents were Joseph and Mary, The son Christ – the one on whose teachings we supposedly base our notions of Christianity. The one who told us that there are only two rules which we should respect – to love others like ourselves and not to do to others what we would not want to be done to us. I call them the two rules of empathy.

If everyone followed them, the world would be a much better place.

A lot of Maltese, many of them omnipresent on Facebook, do not follow them but declare themselves to be Christian. A number of politicians seem to think that these rules are disposable even as they flood us with pictures of themselves with the Pope.

And then you have the hatemongerers who, with the excuse of protecting our Christian heritage, vent their spleen on those weaker than them.

Catholic/Christian Malta? I am sure that there are still remnants (witness the action taken by more than 60 of our lawyers and Dr Gonzi’s speech) but lot of our much vaunted Christians/Catholics would not recognise real Christianity if it hit them on the head!

He may have made some tactical vote-catching mistakes but for JM’s talk about THE NATIONAL INTEREST I wonder how he (JM) would have handled the Libyan crisis particularly when the two pilots landed their jet-fighters here.

Well done, Dr Gonzi and ‘ad multos annos’.

Nor is it a matter of legality.

It is a matter of humanity.

Sense, reason and humanity you say.

Joey has one principle and that is called Joseph Muscat.

This evening he gave a great lesson to Dr Muscat and I hope that for the good of our country that Dr Muscat will see sense, reason and humanity.