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Bob Carr's 'Israel lobby' claims inaccurate, bizarre

If nothing else, the former foreign minister's claims on the ABC will sell books.

Mark Leibler

Updated ,first published

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Bob Carr’s interviews on Wednesday on the ABC's 7.30 and Lateline, spruiking the publication of his The Diary of a Foreign Minister, make various claims about what he refers to as the Melbourne "Israel lobby" exercising extraordinary influence over the office of prime minister Julia Gillard.

Referring to a meeting in April 2013, Carr says that I adopted a "how-dare-you" tone. For a former foreign minister to characterise a normal, cordial and frank exchange as potentially intimidatory is not only inaccurate but a little bizarre.

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