Would it have made any difference to the British Foreign Office, if Mossad had killed Osama Bin Laden, instead of al-Mabhouh in a hotel room in Dubai. Let us assume that fake British passports had been used by Mossad.
Would Miliband have issued a virtually identical statement to the House of Commons? And would anyone have defended Israel's actions?
Gerald Kaufman would surely have got up and opposed the unlawful killing of Osama, on the basis that the British bombing of Dresden was far worse than 9/11. Kaufman would have also said that if America was not backing a corrupt Saudi regime, Bin Laden would not have planned the attack on the Twin Towers. And anyway, wasn't Israel's Cast Lead operation morally far worse than 9/11? Surely when one takes account of everything else, Osama was not "guilty" in the usual sense of the word? Perhaps he was slightly misguided, but that, when you really come to think of it, might also be an exaggeration.