ISRAEL’S bombing of Syria is a classic “dead cat” ploy to switch attention away from slaughter of unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza to unproven charges of chemical warfare by Damascus.

“Don’t look at this. Look at that,” is the message as Tel Aviv slings the dead cat of retribution for alleged use of chlorine gas onto the stage.

The scenario was well prepared by its Nato allies, with government, media, security experts and NGOs accepting unquestioningly the “evidence” served up, at the behest of the Jaish al-Islam jihadists, by their “civil defence” White Helmet cohorts.