Former Defence and Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington has died. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
I suspect most of the news coverage will focus on his Falklands resignation. But he also played an interesting (and not always very admirable) role in British policy towardsa the Middle East and in UK- Israeli relations.
Perhaps most notoriously, he was a determined and active opponent of the idea of a British memorial to victims of the Holocaust. He was, thankfully, overruled by Heseltine and Thatcher on this issue. 
He was regarded by the Israelis with some suspicion primarily because of his support for the EC’s 1980 Venice Declaration and as Defence Secretary at the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Somewhat peculiarly, in his memoirs, he didn’t seem to know the difference between the 1967 Six Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, so maybe the Israelis were right to be sceptical...
