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May 6, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/04/ndaly04.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/05/04/ixportaltop.html

Furor Over Blair's "Jewish Cabal"

(Telegraph-UK) Colin Brown and Chris Hastings - Labour MP Tam Dalyell sparked outrage Saturday by accusing Prime Minister Blair of "being unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers." In an interview with Vanity Fair, Dalyell named Lord Levy, Tony Blair's personal envoy on the Middle East, Peter Mandelson, whose father was Jewish, and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, who has Jewish ancestry, as three of the leading figures who had influenced Mr. Blair's policies on the Middle East. The Prime Minister, Mr. Dalyell claimed, was also indirectly influenced by Jewish people in the Bush administration, including Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, and Ari Fleischer, the President's press secretary.

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