Saturday, October 16, 2010
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Robin Shepherd: Israel's critics strangely silent on Obama's targeted killings in Pakistan, no sign of a Goldstone Report against NATO - '...If Britain supports the passage of the Goldstone Report against Israel's actions in Gaza through the UN, then it is legitimising a principle which could easily lead to the creation of a Goldstone Report against Britain over actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where thousands of civilians have died in combat operations involving British soldiers. I never tire of making this point, especially to my compatriots in the British Foreign Office. Every British official who joins forces with the anti-Israeli brigade at the United Nations is undermining his own country's national interests and its long term national security. That is not what they are paid to do and not what they think of themselves as doing...'