The Sun Sets on the “Special Relationship”

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The Sun Sets on the “Special Relationship”
Posted By Leon Hadar On April 15, 2013
I am not sure whether Margaret Thatcher would have subscribed to today’s neoconservative dogma on Israel or not—an issue that commentators have been debating here ^[1], here ^[2], and here ^[3]—although the heads of the Henry Jackson Society ^[4], the leading neocon outlet in Britain, are certain that she would.
But in any case, British policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict has traditionally been overseen by the so-called “Arabists” in the Foreign Office—perceived to be the bastion of an elite detached from Jewish concerns—who operate on the axiom that what is good for Saudi Arabia and the other Middle Eastern oil states is good for Great Britain and vice versa. Occasionally pressure from the pro-Israeli Americans modifies that position.