Bad coordination. Didn’t their Muslim paymasters get the word to them beforehand? Tsk, tsk, sloppy. You’d never find the Elders making so elementary a mistake.

“He also fielded a number of poignant questions on subjects such as West Bank settlements. Jerusalem was the capital of Israel when London was just swamplands, he remarked in answer to one student.”

Good memory. That’s like the line Disraeli used when another MP taunted him with his Jewish ancestry during a parliamentary debate. “My ancestors were priests in the Temple of Solomon while London was a collection of mud huts.”