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<text id=91TT1225>
<title>
June 03, 1991: It's Undiplomatic, But I Meant It
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 03, 1991 Date Rape
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 13
It's Undiplomatic, But I Meant It
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<p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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<p> Western frustration with Israel may be running deeper than
top diplomats are willing to admit publicly. In a stinging
private speech before an Anglo-Arab group, David Gore-Booth, the
British assistant under secretary for Middle Eastern affairs,
declared that in its handling of the occupied West Bank and
Gaza, Israel is little or no better than any other Middle
Eastern state in terms of its militarism, standard of democracy
and denial of human rights. The Foreign Office expert attributed
the instability of the region to "Israel's refusal to allow the
Palestinians to have the same rights as those they claim for
themselves." After his unusually candid comments surfaced in the
British press, Gore-Booth was quick to call them his "personal
views." But the senior diplomat was not even reprimanded.
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</body></article>
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