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Will David Cameron be a better Prime Minister for Jews than Gordon Brown?

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On the point: Gordon Brown has failed Israel

Under Gordon Brown's leadership, we have had the most anti-Israel government ever, a government who did not vote against the Goldstone Report at the UN, condemned Operation Cast Lead purely to secure more Muslim votes and have utterly failed the Jewish community on Universal Jurisdiction.

The Tories say they would have voted against Goldstone at the UN and that they would have changed Universal Jurisdiction to prevent a private individual being able to obtain an arrest warrant for visitors from abroad. We have to trust they will step up to the mark where Labour has failed

What a party says it will do and what it does when it is in power are two entirely different things. So it is easy for Cameron to say he would have voted against Goldstone, but with pressure from Europe would he? Probably as the conservatives are not very European. On Universal Jurisdiction on the other hand things would be much more difficult. What can be done, change the law? it is hardly a quick fix option especially when most of the time it is a good thing that we have Universal Jurisdiction as it means we can potentially catch unsavoury characters such as people involved in the drugs trade or dictators and their subordinates who have been involved in crimes in Africa and who are not likely to be brought to justice there. Changing the law for the sake of one country that sharply divides opinions might therefore be difficult to manage especially if there is no absolute majority in the commons.

Yes, because... Gordon Brown has failed Israel

 

No, because...

Under Gordon Brown's leadership, we have had the most anti-Israel government ever, a government who did not vote against the Goldstone Report at the UN, condemned Operation Cast Lead purely to secure more Muslim votes and have utterly failed the Jewish community on Universal Jurisdiction.

The Tories say they would have voted against Goldstone at the UN and that they would have changed Universal Jurisdiction to prevent a private individual being able to obtain an arrest warrant for visitors from abroad. We have to trust they will step up to the mark where Labour has failed

 

What a party says it will do and what it does when it is in power are two entirely different things. So it is easy for Cameron to say he would have voted against Goldstone, but with pressure from Europe would he? Probably as the conservatives are not very European. On Universal Jurisdiction on the other hand things would be much more difficult. What can be done, change the law? it is hardly a quick fix option especially when most of the time it is a good thing that we have Universal Jurisdiction as it means we can potentially catch unsavoury characters such as people involved in the drugs trade or dictators and their subordinates who have been involved in crimes in Africa and who are not likely to be brought to justice there. Changing the law for the sake of one country that sharply divides opinions might therefore be difficult to manage especially if there is no absolute majority in the commons.