Last year...I covered the Conservative Party convention in Birmingham and attended a luncheon organized by the Conservative Friends of Israel in a room packed with senior party members and donors. Upon hearing I was an Israeli journalist, the shadow minister I was seated next to launched into an off-the-record attack on Conservative Leader David Cameron for being "much too wishy-washy about Israel," instead of supporting it outright. For all public and political purposes, my lunch companion is a staunch Cameron ally, but he obviously assumed that as an Israeli at a Conservative Friends event, that's what I expected to hear from him.
Silly politician. That he doesn't know that a Ha-Ha-Haaretz journalist is the last person one should talk to about staunch pro-Israel activity is a sign of lack of success by the pro-Israel "lobby" that seems not to really exist.
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