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Oh dear. David Cameron has joined William Hague in arguing that Israel should restrict its response to Hezbollah to firing random rockets on as many civilian targets as possible:
Elements of the Israeli response were disproportionate and I think the Prime Minister should have said that. I do not think it should be seen as an unfair criticism of Israel — it is just a statement of fact.
How can a mainstream poltiician be allowed to get away with advocating that Israel should repond to the random killing of its civilians with the random killing of Lebanese civilians?
If this is the sort of thing we will have to get used to under a Cameron adminstration, the appeal wears off.
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I'd only just finished writing that Israel was on a hiding to nothing on this matter and then I saw this. It must be added that Israel must surely have seen this namby-pambiness coming, plus they should also have seen the real source of Hezbollah funding.
Israel is edging closer and closer now to an unavoidable decision.
Cameron is just a PR spiv trying to spin his way into power. Whatever he may really believe – if anything – his public statements are all about getting the support of the chattering classes by conforming to whatever they consider to be the conventional wisdom.
What decisions are you referring to James?
To be fair to William Hague whose comments preceded those of Cameron, his article was quite fair to Israel. I believe that Sir Kalms' public response was an own goal.
To my mind, more disturbing (and dishonest) are Jack Straw's comments which came on top of his sneering remarks about the need for preemptive action against Iran.
Ad a one off comment it does make you wonder just how safe we would all be if Cameron ever came to power. I expected better from Hague, but Cameron is just a typical Guardian/Independent reading left wing wet.
God help the conservative party with its future, it galls me to say it with his facist tendencies but only Blair seems to get this
I really wouldn't worry. The chances of a Cameron administration (or even government, since this is Britain) are looking increasingly remote.
What do you all make of this issue - the new narrative that the US fired Jack Straw because of his remarks about the stupidity of bombing Iran.
Do you buy this? Or is it just more anti-American palaver?
I wouldn't worry too much about William Rees Mogg. He is puffed up with his own self importance.
I wouldn't worry too much about William Rees Mogg. He is puffed up with his own self importance.
Actually Cameron might be right. "Elements of the Israeli response were disproportionate" - is that so wrong? Question is, how many elements? 0, 1, 2, ... all of them?
Sounds to me like a very clever spin.