The Labour MP Gerald Kaufman opposes an attack on Iran by Israel. One would hope, though, that the man could come up with a better way of doing so than rhetoric like this, from yesterday's Foreign Office Questions:
"It would be an attack on one of the nastiest regimes in the world by another of the nastiest regimes in the world."
To his credit, the Foreign Secretary disassociated himself from this remark. It's not so much the obtuse and disgraceful comparison between a brutal dictatorship and an established parliamentary democracy - although there is that. It's also a question of how much credibility anyone can have when discussing foreign affairs if they can consider a world of so many tyrants, kleptocrats and torturers - and then seriously maintain that Israel's government ranks among the world's nastiest.
