How to tell it like it is

An interesting item from anneinpt's blog. For those who don't her work (though I cross-posted an item from there some time ago), Anne is a Brit who made aliyah some years ago. Her politics and mine are somewhat different, though she paid me the gracious compliment of dubbing me as coming from the "sane left". I treasure that sentence. It also puts me in the same camp as Nick ("What's Left?" "You Can't Read This Book") Cohen, a place I find most congenial.

Much of the entry is a series of extended quotes from William Hague, UK Foreign Secretary, demonstrating his (let's me nice and polite here) inability to appreciate the full subtlety of the situation for Israel in the region. And no, I do not mean to imply that Hague is an Anti-Zionist or worse, just that he fails to understand the whole picture. That, or he's under pressure from those who really don't understand.

Actually, the real meat of the article is the open letter to Hague from Anne's cousin-in-law, which is reproduced in full. Anne invites every who wishes to disseminate that letter as widely as possible, and especially into the twitter accounts of UK Coalition politicians, and especially William Hague's, as at least one person has done already.

The full article is here:

By: Brian Goldfarb