Considering Israel’s crimes against humanity in general and Palestinians in particular, one would expect Britain to send an impartial ambassador to the Jewish state. Judaeo-centric by admission and Zionist by education, Gould is certainly not the man for the job. As Gould himself admits, “the fact that I’m Jewish means I will come with a particular insight and sympathy and understanding, because the story of my family is in certain respects the story of the people of the State of Israel”.
 
A month ago British TV Channel 4 broadcast an exposè of the UK Jewish lobby. It revealed also that 50 per cent of MPs in the shadow cabinet are Conservative Friends of Israel members. The Jews in Britain, or at least the rich ones, are drifting away from the Labour Party. They gamble on the Tories. Consequently, David Miliband, the foreign minister, is doing whatever he can to bring the Jewish fundraisers back home to his Labour Party.
 
At the end of October Miliband lambasted the Conservative Party over their new alliance with the far right in Europe and with a Polish politician with an anti-Semitic past. Some prominent British Jews were not impressed. They knew exactly what Miliband was up to; they realized that Miliband, himself a Jew, was attempting to destabilize the new Jewish alliance with the Conservatives.

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