Was Thatcher An Anti-Semite?

Au contraire, of course. She was a rare Tory without an anti-Semitic impulse in her psyche. But in today's Washington, she'd surely be a target for neocon venom:

Despite her support for Israel, and though she rejected the stridently pro-PLO stance of some members of her government, she believed Israel needed to trade land for peace, wishing in her memoirs that the “Israeli emphasis on the human rights of the Russian refuseniks was matched by proper appreciation of the plight of the landless and stateless Palestinians.” She also condemned Israel’s bombing of Osirak, Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor, in 1981. “[The Osirak attack] represents a grave breach of international law,” she said in an interview with London’s Jewish Chronicle in 1981. Israel’s bombing of another country could lead to “international anarchy.”

And can you imagine a current Republican candidate ever saying:

Just because a country is trying to manufacture energy from nuclear sources, it must not be believed that she is doing something totally wrong.

Only one candidate, actually: Ron Paul.