Would not my right hon. Friend agree that any lasting settlement of the Middle Eastern Crisis can be brought about only under the auspices of the United Nations and that it will not come as a result of harsh and humiliating terms being offered by the victor to the vanquished, which can only have the effect of renewing antagonisms?

I gave an assurance last week that, if we needed to have a further debate, we would consider it, but that we must watch the Middle Eastern Crisis week by week and judge for ourselves, through the usual channels, if and when a debate was necessary.

The last time was when there was a very Similar Middle Eastern Crisis.

That is perhaps truer than many people realise of the Middle Eastern Crisis.

The Middle Eastern Crisis is real and must be debated.

There have been enormous changes: German union, the liberation of eastern Europe, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the recession in the United States, to say nothing of the Middle Eastern Crisis.

The debate has gone on for quite a while, but no one has yet mentioned the Mitchell principles being proposed for some form of settlement of the Middle Eastern Crisis or the meetings with Shimon Peres alongside Yasser Arafat.