Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu strutted into the United Nations, a finger primed to wag at a room full of nations which had already done the diplomatic equivalent of changing the channel.

He could hardly clear his throat before the delegates bolted for the exits as though there had been an announcement of a free bar and a fire drill in the lobby.

Naturally, he called them cowards. Nothing screams moral authority like hurling abuse at the back of people who have already turned their backs on you is there?

Netanyahu tried to shame the United Nations, which responded with a panoramic view of their backsides. Netanyahu must have thought himself so big, so clever. Talking of moral cowardice when his own army only seems to be big and brave when fighting children. The biggest dressing down however has come from perhaps not the first coun ...