UK-Israel
Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray Monday criticized Prime Minister Gordon Brown as being worse than shameless for not raising the Zionist regime's illicit nuclear arms stockpile during his speech to the Israeli Knesset.

"There are times when the shamelessness of our government is breathtaking. For Gordon Brown to stand craving approval from the assembly that controls the world's largest illegal arsenal of nuclear weapons, without mentioning that fact, is craven," Murray said.

"To stand there and try to stoke populist support for war against Iran, because of its far less developed nuclear programme, is so gobsmacking in its hypocrisy that we must all struggle to find adequate words to condemn Brown," he said.

"I am again deeply ashamed of my ex-FCO (Foreign Office) colleagues, who will have drafted this tendentious warmongering, that they know very well will be taken by Israeli hawks as a green light of British support for air strikes on Iran," the former envoy said.

In a statement on his website, he cynically suggested that "Brown's speech of strong support for Israel will have achieved progress in reducing the Labour Party's Pnds 23 million debt." "A war on Iran will be a distraction from the effects of the judderings of an unregulated financial system by which there is 1,800 times more 'Virtual money' moved than money linked to actual trade in goods and services," Murray warned.

He also criticized the British premier in his speech in asserting that Britain stood beside Israel in the fight for liberty, saying "Liberty and Israel do not belong in the same sentence."
The former ambassador was recalled from his post in 2004 after criticizing human rights in Uzbekistan. He subsequently resigned from the Foreign Office and has since been campaigning against the many excesses of the UK's foreign policy.