He was quoted as referring to Israel as a "shitty little country" with the rest paraphrased...

On the other paw...
The undiplomatic remarks were made at a private gathering at the London home of Lord Black of Crossharbour, chairman of The Jerusalem Post's parent company Hollinger Inc. They were referred to - anonymously - in a column published in the Daily Telegraph on Monday by Black's wife, Barbara Amiel

remarks made in private and posted anonymously... It's not like Israel isn't a pain in the balls to begin with, but can't even a government jerk let his hair down a little in private? Looks to me like another nitwit applying popular labels, "anti-semitism", for example, to anything she wishes to attack. Disliking Israelies is not anything to do with semitism. They are arrogant, well armed, religous bigots. So are their enemies. It's enough to make a political hack start doing chartrues shooters in private parties. I'm only guessing at the shooters, but he doesn't seem to be able to remember making nasty comments...

I seem to recall that you like to go home after 40 hours if not in crisis... maybe you could extend the same slack?

Oh, and bubba, there's that bit about rhetoric and viewpoints...

only .02
Hugh