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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Thu May 23, 2013, 10:26 PM May 2013

Jerusalem: William Hague Faces Israel-UK Strain over UK's ‘Disguised anti-Semitism’

William Hague's two-day round of talks in Jerusalem have got off on the wrong foot, with Britain's foreign secretary facing sharp criticism from a senior Israeli cabinet minister.

A few hours before Hague crossed the famous Allenby Bridge between Jordan and the West Bank, Yuval Steinitz, Israel's intelligence and strategic affairs minister, claimed Britain's foreign policy towards the Jewish state is influenced by a "disguised anti-Semitism" which he believes is widespread in the UK.

A close ally to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Steinitz questioned whether Britain was still a friend of Israel and warned Hague against lecturing the country on Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

"I think those allegations about the settlements are fundamentally wrong. To come to Israel and say why you are doing this and this, this is totally wrong," Steinitz told The Telegraph.

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/470469/20130523/hague-israel-palestine-steinitz-jerusalem.htm

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Jerusalem: William Hague Faces Israel-UK Strain over UK's ‘Disguised anti-Semitism’ (Original Post) Purveyor May 2013 OP
i'm both pro-israel and pro-palestinian. DesertFlower May 2013 #1
let me get this straight delrem May 2013 #2

DesertFlower

(11,649 posts)
1. i'm both pro-israel and pro-palestinian.
Thu May 23, 2013, 10:32 PM
May 2013

i'm against terrorism. that being said i think building more settlements is wrong and that does not make me anti-semetic.

i tend to remember Tzipi" Livni saying if she were elected she would remove the settlements. does that make her anti-semetic?

delrem

(9,688 posts)
2. let me get this straight
Thu May 23, 2013, 11:28 PM
May 2013

A senior Israeli cabinet minister, "intelligence and strategic affairs", claims that UK foreign policy is anti-Semitic and, hours before the UK foreign minister lands in Israel, preempts the conversation by telling him to STFU about Israel's accelerated West Bank settlement and relocation program. The guy the Israeli politician is dissing like this is the First Secretary of State for the UK, besides - a position that is (if I understand correctly) honorary such that the First Secretary of State stands as a figurehead.

It's times like this that I wish that I'd trained myself in editorial cartooning, because the situation is so loaded in meaning.

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