Bob Carr dairies: foreign policy was subcontracted to Jewish donors

Ex-foreign minister casts light on support for Israel and his obsession with diet and the indignities of businesss class travel

Former foreign minister Bob Carr has suggested Julia Gillards dogged insistence on supporting Israel in a controversial United Nations vote was because Australian foreign policy had been subcontracted to wealthy Jewish donors.

In a new biography about his 18 months as foreign minister, Carr reveals deep tensions within Labor over foreign policy and intimate details of his conversations with foreign leaders - including an April 2012 meeting with David Miliband who was pessimistic about British Labour being led by brother Ed.

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source Guardian