That Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is behaving like the menacing leader of a rogue state is a truth that Keir Starmer dare not speak but must beware or Britain will be dragged into another bloody Middle East war. Scuppering nuclear talks that had a reasonable prospect of success by attacking Iran was the calculated act of an Israeli Prime Minister who daily treats the British Prime Minister with contempt by ignoring pleas to end the unforgivable slaughter and suffering of Palestinians in Gaza .