British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said today:

"I warmly welcome the decision by Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas to move to direct talks, and the Quartet statement earlier today."

What he did not say was that Israel is an expansionist state, hiding a massive, secret, nuclear arsenal, and that its present government follows an ethnocentric ideology that rejects absolutely the right of the only genuine indigenous people of Palestine to return to the land upon which they lived continuously for over one thousand years.

He did not say that these so-called 'direct talks' are merely another stage-managed playlet entered into by Netanyahu to ensure continued funding and armaments from the US, and that there is not the slightest possibility of his Likud government agreeing to any Palestinian state, anywhere between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan, for so long as it in power.

Neither did he say anything about the dismantling of the settlements and the removal of the half a million illegal settlers on the Palestinian West Bank.

Nor did he say anything about those alleged guilty of war crimes in Gaza to be brought before an international court to ascertain their guilt or otherwise.

Meanwhile, Mr Hague is proposing to alter British legislation in order to allow anyone alleged guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity to enter Britain safe in the knowledge that the current law of Universal Jurisdiction that covers these major crimes cannot now be the basis of arrest upon the formal complaint of a British citizen.

Perhaps Mr Hague is looking to buy a holiday home in Herzalia for his future retirement, for there is little other explanation that comes readily to mind.