Murkier and murkier

How refreshing that over a quarter of the Parliamentary Labour Party—including some shadow ministers—had the spine to reject our Beloved Leader’s three-line whip on abstaining on calls for a Hamas/Israel ceasefire. Starmer will only call for a ceasefire himself when he gets his instructions from the US government. That so many Labour MPs joined the calls for a ceasefire shows that independent thought still exists on the green benches. Hopefully it will fire a shot across the bows of someone who thinks that the party now only consists of him and his ultras. Meanwhile, the BBC news last night showed some clips of detailed graphics of the alleged Hamas tunnel system under the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. I am quite prepared to believe, given the atrocities that Hamas has carried out that they would not shirk from using hospitals as covers for their suicidal mission, but the level of detail shown in the news clip—if true– can only lead one to the conclusion that their tunnel system has been compromised by a mole (forgive the pun). Which then leads to the question if the intelligence is this good, why didn’t the Israelis get wind of the Hamas attack on 7th October? Or was intelligence received and not passed on? Israel is supposed to have one of the best spying capacities in the world (indeed is an unofficial member of the ‘Five Eyes’ western intelligence sharing network) - so perhaps there’s a gaping hole somewhere in this aspect of our right to self-defence? Prevention is clearly better than cure, although in this case the cure is anything but.