Iran's threat is to us all

Charles

Many, of an older generation, will have considered the comments about "darker episodes" to be quite insulting. I would think that might include quite a few Telegraph readers. What was he thinking?

Jacko

The people from Israel's diplomatic corps are always first rate.

As for the Americans, what a bunch of buffoons!

Greg

American ambassadors to the UK get the role on the basis of campaign contribution, not ability.

Wonky link, btw

Hysteria

how woudl you prefer him to have alluded to things that were not so god. The art of diplomacy is not to hack people off surely?

Nick Strange

"Britain obstructed Jewish emigration to Palestine during the Second World War, at a time when it could have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of European Jews."
This brilliant example of suggestio falsi seems at first glance to prove Stephen Pollard's ascription of the highest diplomatic talents to the Israeli ambassador in a single sentence. But then doubts set in.
That any European Jew who managed to emigrate to Palestine during the Second World War would presumably have survived, is indubitably true. It is no less true, that Britain before, during and after the war was keen to limit immigration into Palestine. But the implication by juxtaposition of the two, that a Jewish Pole on being rounded up by a Nazi Todeskommando would have survived by waving a visa for Palestine is lunatic. There are no recorded instances of Jews having escaped from the Nazi area of occupation (or those of its allies, such as Vichy France) being returned to their deaths in Continental Europe. Apart from nobler considerations, where, and by means of what unlikely mechanism, could such transfers have been effected? Perhaps the ambassador's mealy-mouthed rhetoric represents his country less effectively than Pollard imagines.

Ann

"There are no recorded instances of Jews having escaped from the Nazi area of occupation (or those of its allies, such as Vichy France) being returned to their deaths in Continental Europe"

Irrelevant demagoguery. The refugees on several ships that were turned back drowned, for example.

Joshua

Struma -- The Boat That Never Made It

http://tinyurl.com/6hhphw

And there were many hundreds of thousands of Jews in various European countries who tried desperately to get out before the Germans invaded but found that the gates of the world were barred against them.

Marcus from the USA

Is Iran a threat to us all???

Not Really. I as an American dont feel that Iran poses a threat militarily or economically to the American nation.

I do believe that Iran with nukes does pose a threat to American hegemony in the Mid-East and the Jew World Order.

Besides Jewish/Israeli terrorists have done farm more harm to Britain than Iran has. A short list of Jewish acts of violence against the UK:
- King David Hotel bombing
- Assasination of Lord Moyne
- Sinking of the Patria
- Bombing of UK Embassy in Rome

Britain needs Israel as much as a dog needs fleas.

Fran Waddams, Anglican Friends of Israel

I'm aware of the liberal approach to moderation on these blogs; however, the overt racism in Marcus' comment does neither him nor Spectator moderators any credit.