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00 Labour MPs are demanding the recall of Parliament "to debate the Lebanon crisis" as the Guardian - and everyone else - puts it.
I'd be fascinated to discover which of the 100 MPs plans to argue that Israel is not being, as the buzz-word has it, 'disproportionate'.
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It doesn't really matter what they say. Neither we nor our MPs have the slightest influence on what is going on in the Middle East. Recalling them is pointless.
Does anyone remember the scene in 2001, when the prehistoric apeman suddenly discover the monolith, and are leaping up and down, and screaming at it in impotent rage, and fear?
It's exactly the image I have in mind when I read about MPs wanting to debate the Lebanon situation - just what, exactly, do they expect the outcome to be?
The other image that comes to mind is of the gnat-like Skibbereen Eagle warning the Czar of Russia that it had its eye on him.
It's par for the course though with such people - it's what we've come to expect. Pity we can't lay a bet on their predictability and really clean up.
Not acting disproportionately? Don't you mean either "acting disproportionately" or "not acting proportionately"? They wouldn't be asking for a recall if they thought that Israel was acting proportionately.
All politicians indulge themselves thinking that anyone is paying attention. So long as they aren't being paid extra for doing so, how bad could it be to make them cut short their summer?
It seems like you are arguing for the recall too Stephen, since that's the only way you point could be answered.
I'd much rather this was debated in parliament than the debate took place in either of these three alternatives: in an Islamic court, in Cliff Richard's holiday hideaway, or in ego-maniac Doctor John Reid's crazed mind :0)