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Robin Cook In Trouble NPR's Linda Gradstein reports British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook's insistence on visiting a controversial new Jewish settlement on the edge of Jerusalem has caused a diplomatic incident between Britain and Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu snubbed the Foreign Secretary by cancelling an official dinner after Cook viewed the settlement site in the company of Palestinian officials. Jewish settlers demonstrating near the site called Cook an "anti-Semite."

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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook's insistence on visiting a controversial new Jewish settlement on the edge of Jerusalem has caused a diplomatic incident between Britain and Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu snubbed the Foreign Secretary by cancelling an official dinner after Cook viewed the settlement site in the company of Palestinian officials. Jewish settlers demonstrating near the site called Cook an "anti-Semite."