Wellthis aged well. Leave aside the complete misreading of the result from someone posting this morning- not last night- the wilful mischaracterisation of the political realities is shocking if not surprising. I say not surprising because I once had the experience of @EmilyThornberry berating me in her office for talking about "Israel". She was insistent ... the Problem is this particular Government... this was many Governments ago. She is seeking to sustain the liberal zionist myth of a progressive body of opinion in Israel, reflected in opposition parties who oppose the oppression of Palestinians and will act to end it. It means she wilfully ignores the fact that every one of the Zionist parties support the genocide in Gaza, support the occupation and would never allow a Palestinian state. She ignores what creates this reality- the support for these policies across the Israeli public - 82% believe every Palestinian should be ethnically cleansed from Gaza and 56% support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Maybe Emily doesn't think these views are " cruel, dystopic and authoritarian". If she did she'd had to accept the problem is Israel as an apartheid state enacting a genocide supported by its people , not Netanyahu. And if she accepted that she might have to support comprehensive sanctions and we can't have that can we?