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Jonathan Hoffman

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Middle East Weapons Salesman (ex-FCO) thinks Israel "on Path to Assisted Suicide"

December 24, 2012 11:57
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I have previously documented offensive comments by Foreign Office Arabists:

http://hurryupharry.org/2009/11/24/miles-vile-bile/

http://cmec.org.uk/2012/12/text-of-sir-sherard-cowper-coles-lecture-what...

Now JC blog commenter ‘happygoldfish’ has drawn our attention to a speech 11 days ago by Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles. Cowper-Coles had a token posting to Israel (2001-3) but that was preceded by a posting to Cairo and followed by one to Riyadh. Last year Cowper-Coles followed the time-honoured path of other FCO Arabists, smoothing the path for BAE systems to sell defence and aerospace products to the Arabs.