Labour has two paths to choose from: the failed legacies of Bevin and Corbyn, or successful ones like Blair's Northern Ireland Peace Agreement.
By Alex Hearn
Then prime minister Tony Blair (right) with then Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, outside Downing Street.
The Labour Party has a complex history with Israel. The post-war Labour government neither intended to recognise the Jewish state nor support its UN membership, abstaining from the UN Partition vote in 1947. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told his US counterpart that Britain was “unanimous” in opposing a Jewish state, calling the Balfour Declaration an “unfortunate error.”

