Never bet against Benjamin Netanyahu. He is an evil genius, but he is still a genius. Up in court, and struggling to put together a coalition, he has bombed an "Iranian spy ship" that conveniently had no one aboard, meaning that any retaliation will be purely pro forma. One would not have wanted a repetition of 8th June 1967, with 34 dead and 171 wounded. Unlike the Americans, the Iranians hit back.
It would be expulsionable from the British Labour Party to criticise either that attack or this one, a state of affairs, it must be said, that came into effect while Jeremy Corbyn was Leader. And there is nothing that Bibi's British Labour fangirls of all genders love more than their "sister parties", a term that is oddly still permitted to be used.
Well, one of those sisters is now an East German bloc party that exists only to keep Angela Merkel in power so that she will keep it in existence. As recently as 2017, another sister provided the President of the French Republic, with his finger on a nuclear button and with his permanent seat on the UN Security Council, but that party is now rarely even mentioned in opinion polls, since so few people have any remaining interest in voting for it.
A third sister, with only half as many seats as the Greens, is not in the broadest coalition in the history of the Irish Republic, the one to stop the Provisional Army Council from becoming the de facto sovereign body in the 26 Counties that it would already appear to be in the Six; so much for Corbyn's keeping of the wrong company.
And so much for Corbyn's keeping of the wrong company when a fourth sister now has less chance of being in government than an Islamist party in Israel. Beginning on Super Thursday, 6th May, let us wish Keir Starmer's Labour Party exactly as much success as that. All the polling points to it.
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