Balfour Declaration Debate
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(8 years, 6 months ago)
Lords Chamber Viscount Waverley (CB)
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Viscount Waverley (CB) 
        
    
        
    
        My Lords, given the increasing vacuum from the United States and the concern expressed by Arab partners, is it now realised that Israel can become a strategic ally in the common cause of combating terrorism and Islamist extremism?
 Baroness Anelay of St Johns
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Baroness Anelay of St Johns 
        
    
        
    
        My Lords, I think it is incumbent on all those who believe in peace around the world to do exactly that, and I hope and expect that Israel would be part of that work.