Patrick Wintour
speaker
492 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Patrick Wintour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's been an accusation of effectively war crimes made by Ed Miliband against the Israeli government.
The reaction of the Israeli government is probably on the level that was foreseen.
Opinion about Israel is changing in America at a rate of knots.
Trump is a vengeful man.
Any minute bomb that has been ticking will explode.
Well, it was to be expected because there's been really extensive consultations, both the pro-Pasdan groups and with Jewish groups in the UK ahead of this announcement.
those consultations were running right up until the day before the announcement itself.
I think it was about six weeks.
Palestinian NGOs and
Palestinian embassy were in just immediately beforehand.
I don't think anyone would have been overly surprised by what was announced and certainly the main element which is this ban on trade with settlement goods was well advertised.
Now, in terms of a response, this is twofold, really, from the Jewish community, or anyway, from the British Board of Deputies, which is one is that this is going to make Jewish people in the UK more vulnerable to attack, because I assume the argument is that there's been an accusation of effectively war crimes made by Ed Miliband against the Israeli government.
And the second line of attack was that this is going to lead to a possible change in the result in the Israeli elections on October the 27th, where the argument will run that Benjamin Netanyahu will use this attack on him as an attack on Israel, and as he has in previous elections, will kind of raise the security banner even higher above his election campaign.
mean, I think the first sort of almost third of a very long statement
taken up with a restatement of his own credentials in terms of relationship to the Jewish community and his own heritage.
In fact, his mother was a victim of the Holocaust and sensitive escape from the Holocaust.
And he understands Israel in a way in which I think a lot of front rank labor politicians don't.
So
think this is actually one occasion where the individual, the personality does matter.
And I don't think if he wasn't, if someone else was the foreign secretary, I don't think what was announced yesterday would have happened.
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