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William Hague – Israel’s Fairweather Friend – and Little Sir Echo from the Camel Corps: “We Will All Suffer if Israel Persists in this Present Course of Trying to Survive by Force of Arms”

The actress Joan Collins once cruelly said of William Hague that he looks like a foetus. None of us can help our looks, and we can’t all be pin-ups, let alone perennial pin-ups like Joan herself, so I’m going to be much kinder. I’m going to say that in matters of foreign policy the First in PPE from Oxford looks like a dunce. The flat-voiced Yorkshireman who joined Conservative Friends of Israel when still a schoolboy is, as Foreign Secretary, a “friend” to Israel of a very dodgy sort.

Just like the man he calls his boss, in fact. David Cameron, always keen, it appeared, to keep his part-Jewish ancestry firmly under wraps until, desperate for votes in what looked unexpectedly like a very close-run race, he revealed not quite the full extent of it to the Jewish Chronicle just before last May’s election, in what looked suspiciously like a cynical bid for votes, is neither the most trustworthy of Tory politicians nor one who carries empathy for Israel in his gut. Just look at the way he behaved over the Mavi Marmara affair – proclaiming in Turkey (which he’s determined to see admitted to the EU) that Gaza is an “open air prison” and denouncing Israel’s defensive, well-justified attack on the IHH terrorists aboard the flotilla ((http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2010/07/sick-man-of-europe-david-cameron-talks.html).

And now, with Israel – already imperilled by Iran, sliding ever nearer nuclear capability, by Hezbollah, and by Hamas – looking nervously upon the turmoil in Egypt, understandably deeply fearful that the 1979 Peace Treaty is under threat, Hague has the audacity to insist via “a blunt instruction” that Binyamin Netanyahu – the elected leader of a sovereign nation and an ally – “tone down” the rhetoric, as The Times reports in a big story on its front page today. Hague, says that paper, responding “to increasingly militaristic pronouncements by Mr Netanyahu, who has been urging his nation to prepare for ‘any outcome’ and vowing to ‘reinforce the might of the state of Israel’” declared ‘This should not be a time for belligerent language. It’s a time to inject greater urgency into the Middle East peace process.’

Hear Hague here, on Al Beeb (BBC radio 4’s Today programme: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9391000/9391888.stm)

In that same broadcast you will hear Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles (British Ambassador to Israel, 2001-3; pictured) on the necessity for “tough love” towards Israel and the urgency for Israel to accept the peace that’s “been on offer” to it since the Peel Commission of 1937 – what, no Arab rejectionism or violence or intransigence, Sir Sherard? – and to abide by the terms of the Balfour Declaration!

Israel (or rather the Jewish Agency) DID accept the Peel Commission report! The Arabs rejected it!!!

For those who don’t know,  the report gave the Jews a small portion of land along the coast but the Arabs still said “No”.

What an outstanding symbol of the twisting of history.

And that Cowper-Coles, a Foreign Office official and diplomat, doesn’t even know that is really shocking!

(See also Yisrael Medad’s response to Sir Sherard’s  nonsense:  http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-mandate-period-history-is-essential.html
and Melanie Phillips demolition job:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6686665/a-monstrous-inversion.thtml#comments)
Does Hague buy into the fiction that if only the “Israel-Palestine” problem were to be settled, there’d be no more strife in the Middle East? Is he so naive, or so beholden to the Arabists in the Foreign Office, that he believes that the responsibility for the current unrest lies with Israel, and that if only Israel were soft and malleable all would be sweetness and light?

Does he have a clue about the antisemitism in the region or the lethal agenda of militant Islamists? It would appear so – and hearing Little Sir Echo (Coles) reinforces that view.

That superbly realistic Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick has a written a book about her country called Shackled Warrior.

And “shackled warrior” is what Hague and Cameron and Coles evidently wish tiny Israel to be – fighting for its survival against fanatical murderous Islamists  including the Muslim Brotherhood (which of course spawned Hamas) if Egypt falls under their control –  with its sword arm, so to speak, chained behind its back.

From the great – the truly great – Lord Palmerston to Wee Willie Hague.

How is the mighty Foreign Secretaryship fallen.

But Masada shall not – must not –  fall again.

For if it did, the fall of Britain and the rest of Western civilisation would not be long behind.

The public figures who joined Jose Maria Aznar’s Friends of Israel Initiative know that full well.

It seems that Hague and Cameron and Coles do not.

Incidentally, have a look at Melanie Phillips’s post on Hague, if you haven’t already:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6684255/with-friends-like-this-who-needs-enemies.tht
and click back to see her superb take on David Cameron’s speech regarding multiculturalism.