Boycotters are 'bunch of loons'
Conservative Party leader David Cameron this week branded those who describe Israel as a “pariah state” as a “bunch of loons.”
Speaking at the Conservative Friends of Israel’s Annual Business Lunch at the Savoy Hotel on Tuesday, he said that boycotts of Israel are damaging and stated his support for the country.
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Cameron said: “It’s disturbing that a boycott is happening here, there is no justification for treating Israel as a pariah state, it may be by a bunch of loons deciding on it but the motion is profoundly worrying and damaging.
“Attacks on Israel can sometimes spill into anti-semitism.”
He gave his backing to Israel’s Security Wall but warned that new settlements may damage peace negotiations, “The West has to understand that there is no equivalence between the democratically elected government in Israel, member of the United Nations, and groups like Hamas.
“The Security Wall has clearly worked but putting it around new settlements will make negotiations more difficult.”
Speaking to around 500 MPs, peers and party members including former leader Michael Howard and Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague, Cameron warned that solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict would not stop problems in the rest of the Middle East, “It is naive to think that solving the peace process will stop roadside bombs in Iraq.”
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