“Meanwhile, a parallel operation is carried on against media organisations that criticise Israel’s foreign policy. In particular, the Guardian and the BBC suffer from a barrage of complaints and emails, many from outside the UK. The BBC has proved unable to cope.”

So there we have it out of the horses mouths of fellow anti-semites. The BBC takes an editorial line against the Jewish nation in complete contravention of its Duty to impartiality. Thank you Mr Oborne and Mr Jones for your unintended candour.

“It is impossible to imagine any British political leader showing such equanimity and tolerance if British troops had committed even a fraction of the human rights abuses and war crimes of which Israel has been accused.”

must be one of the greatest of the many great lies that have been hurled at Israel and its supporters.

A few seconds on Google looking for examples of British troops abusing, killing, and raping civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan is all it takes to show, once again, the relative superiority of IDF soldiers’ behavior in time of war.

The fact that Israel has “been accused” does not make it so, and even isolated cases, if proven, do not make it so for the thousands of other Israeli troops, or millions of Israelis who have served and continue to serve in the IDF.

Nor does the charge of equanimity used here justify the implication that somehow, British leaders are in thrall to Israel or Israeli lobbies. In fact, British leaders have shown, and are showing, “equanimity and tolerance” towards the actions of British forces that would never be tolerated towards political leaders in Israel. This has been shown by the various inquiry commissions set up whenever there have been a suspicion of behavior that di not meet the high moral standards demanded of Israeli troops that are enshrined in IDF standing orders and repeated every time troops go out on a mission.

If Oborne and company feel that British leaders should be vocal about what they see as Israeli abuses, these same leaders should be screaming abuse at Britain itself from the very rooftops of Parliament.

This weekend I visited an exhibition (in Washington, DC) of AP photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan. There is nothing to compare with that horrific, extensive exhibition of 7 years of photographs of raped women, children and adults missing limbs, torture survivors, destroyed property and lives, that can be laid at the door of Israel, no matter what polemicists in the UK say. “Cast Lead” was a three week episode that would go unnoticed in the daily carnage that British (and US, but Osborne’s documentary is about Britain) troops have been visiting on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan for years with very little, if any opposition from politicians or even the public in general. Anyone who remembers the public and political opposition to Vietnam can attest to the difference.

Obviously the all-powerful Jewish lobby was sleeping on the job…