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If Miliband wants peace let him task his Labour Friends of Palestine to produce a reformed, pragmatic Hamas. Persuade Fatah-led Palestinian Authority to recognize the right of the Jewish people to live in peace in the Land of Israel Statements made by Ed Miliband and his Shadow Foreign Minister, Douglas Alexander at the Labour Party Conference on Monday, September 22, were appalling for their one-sided bias against Israel. Although they paid lip service to a condemnation of “Hamas rockets and the terrorization of civilian populations” the only use of the word “illegal” was in reference to Israeli building, and the...

LONDON – Setting up an intriguing election battle, Britain’s opposition Labor Party announced Friday that it had hired President Obama’s chief campaign advisor to help the party return to power next year over the ruling Conservatives. The decision to recruit David Axelrod means that the 2015 British election will pit two of Obama’s strategists against each other. Working for the Conservatives is Jim Messina, who, like Axelrod, toiled on both of Obama’s presidential campaigns and who served as his deputy White House chief of staff during his first term. “David is used to tough fights, and he is going to...

Brown seeks to mend damage done by minister's 'anti-US speech'   Gordon Brown  Philip Webster, Political Editor and Tom Baldwin, Washington Gordon Brown brought his Cabinet into line tonight in an unprecedented move to reassure the White House that he was not going cool on the special relationship. After just over two weeks as Prime Minister, Mr Brown asked his chief of staff to write to all Cabinet ministers emphasising the importance of the link with America and reminding them of his own words that “we will not allow people to separate us from the United States in dealing...