Turning truth on its head, she is guilty of double-speak, matching the contorted logic and perfidy illustrated in George Orwell’s novel, 1984.

She is a member of the government which opposes a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians. Presumably she considers too few people to have been killed as yet. A lot more children will have to bite the dust of Israel’s demolition squads.

Keir Starmer, too, opposes a ceasefire, being unimpressed by the massive demonstrations and the turmoil within his own Party.  Who is pulling Starmer’s strings?

He is victim of his own fabrication of widespread anti-semitism within the Labour Party. He is obedient to the lavishly-funded lobbying of the Israeli Embassy and is in hock to the rich donors who have stepped forward to replace some of the income lost by the massive exodus and expulsions of members from the Labour Party. They will want a reward for their money, namely, to have not a word breathed against the venomous policies and war crimes of Israel.

Having banned any criticism, actual or implied, of Israeli government policy by Labour members(although the Netanyahu government is the most extremely belligerent in the country’s history and contains self-professed fascists, yes, Jewish fascists, how unbelievable is that.).

Would the demand for a ceasefire by Britain be decisive in the present crisis? Of course not, because our influence on the world stage is puny.

But Britain is not an innocent bystander in the conflict.  We were responsible for the Balfour Declaration and share responsibility with France for the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot  Agreement carving up the Middle East.  A British demand for a ceasefire would break the conspiracy of silence which allows Israel to assume legitimacy for its scorched earth strategy in Gaza and its siege to the death. A ceasefire call would put pressure on the USA, Israel’s paymaster.

A ceasefire call would be the moral thing to do. This would be a shock for the world. Ethical politics is an unusual thing. Power politics is more fashionable. The Middle East is the birthplace of Judaism, Islam and Christianity and the last place one would look for morality in politics.

The religious obscurantism of Jews and Muslims on the two sides of this conflict has a lot to answer for, as does the bigotry of the evangelical right in the USA. No religion has special purchase on morality.