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Jewish groups query claims that Julia Gillard is soft on Israel

Jewish groups have questioned claims by a former Australian ambassador to Israel that Julia Gillard was silent on the \"excesses\" of Israel.\n\nAnd the former editor of The Age, Michael Gawenda, yesterday labelled as \"bizarre\" a report in the Fairfax newspaper and its sister paper, The Sydney Morning Herald, that linked Ms Gillard\'s stance towards Israel with a job given to her partner by an Israel lobbyist.\n
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June 29, 2010

From theaustralian.com:

Jewish groups have questioned claims by a former Australian ambassador to Israel that Julia Gillard was silent on the “excesses” of Israel.

And the former editor of The Age, Michael Gawenda, yesterday labelled as “bizarre” a report in the Fairfax newspaper and its sister paper, The Sydney Morning Herald, that linked Ms Gillard’s stance towards Israel with a job given to her partner by an Israel lobbyist.

Former ambassador Ross Burns reportedly wrote in a letter to the Herald that Ms Gillard had been “remarkably taciturn on the excesses of Israeli actions in the past two years”.

He said Ms Gillard led a delegation to Israel last year for the Australia-Israel Leadership Forum, but failed to raise the issue that was “No 1 on the horizon”.

Read the full article at theaustralian.com.

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