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To: John Chen who wrote (380664)	3/28/2003 12:20:39 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 769670

British Sec. Straw spoke of "double standard" for Israel and Iraq in enforcing UN Security Council decisions. It's about time reality and sanity begins to returns to the West! "The Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned British Ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles for an urgent meeting to officially express Israel's discontent with recent statements by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Straw spoke Wednesday of the West's "double standards" regarding Iraq and Israel and the demand to comply with decisions of the UN Security Council. Yoav Biran, Foreign Ministry director-general, told the British ambassador that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom "took a serious view" of the recent British statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "particularly the baseless attempt to create a link between the international campaign against the Iraqi regime and its attempt to arm itself with weapons of mass destruction, and the Arab-Israeli conflict." Biran praised Britain's role in the war in Iraq, stressing that, in light of such, "the recent British statements were worrying and infuriating." Such statements, Biran continued, "do not help to forward the peace process." Cowper-Coles said Straw was well aware of the terror threat to Israel, adding the decisions of the UN equally bound all sides to the conflict. The ambassador expressed Britain's friendship and support for Israel, noting that Prime Minister Tony Blair was personally committed to the matter." haaretzdaily.com