Eyes on Gaza
With Parliament has yet to return from recess, our MP’s attention turned this week to the desperate situation in the Middle East – prompting bloggers to deliver forthright advice to their elected representatives. Nick Clegg’s demand for an arms embargo on Israel, and for EU-Israel co-operation to be suspended attracted particular attention. Jonathan Fryer was proud of his party leader and believed that he had “…seized the moral high ground on this issue, while Gordon Brown and David Cameron have proved to be pathetic straw men,” though for Iain Dale it was evidence of the Lib Dems becoming an “anti-Israel party”.
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