Tory views on Israel/Lebanon
Remarkable set of articles in today's Sunday Telegraph. William Hague, Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary, and hitherto not known for ever taking a different position to George W Bush, says our foreign policy does not have to be identical to America's, calls Israel's actions disproportionate and says its actions are not in Israeli's best interests. Matthew d'Ancona, on the following page, attacks Hague, claims it might be due to his having a Muslim advisor, and then says that basically Hague is too old (he's 46) to understand the decades of dealing with Islamism that are to come, and instead we need people of the age and like Micahel Gove - he really does say that - who do. (I can't link as the telegraph website is down).Update: Telegraph readers appear very anti-Israel on this issue. There are five letters on the issue, of which 3 are against and only 1 is for - with one calling for a boycott of Israeli goods. Unless the letters page is unrepresentative, which of course it could easily be, then perhaps this explains Hague's position?
posted by Matthew @ 7/23/2006 12:19:00 PM
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