Balfour Declaration

Viscount Waverley Excerpts
Monday 3rd April 2017

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Viscount Waverley Portrait Viscount Waverley (CB)
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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 Portrait Baroness Anelay of St Johns
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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.