Britain forgets that it no longer runs Palestine

Truthtriumphs

To be expected.
This anti-Israel government will always push the boundaries to see how much it can get away with.
The Israeli government should tell its British counterparts where to get off, in no uncertain terms, as should the so-far supine "leaders" of the Jewish British community.
The British would then have a new found respect for Israel, instead of its obvious contempt.

Edmund Jerk

They were: America was always interfering in Northern Ireland. Their blind support, financially (privately) and 'morally' (publicly), of the IRA and Gerry Adams - is well documented. Remember it was Clinton who forced us to sign a 'peace' treaty with them, effectively capitulating to the demands of terrorist killers.

James Hovland

Ever heard of AIPAC?

Straydingo

Edmund Jerk,
There is a significant difference in that the US government was not directly supporting (financially or morally) the IRA vs. whereas the UK government here is being accused of meddling directly in the affairs of another democratic state.

David

"the British government was ‘taking practical steps towards freezing settlement activities.’"

Good. They are illegal, morally wrong and an obstacle to peace.

You have no problem with interfering in muslim countries.

just Louise

Methinks 'tis an unholy alliance of Foreign Office Arabism and Labour's need to placate its leftwing as Gordon Brown and Co desperately battle to hang on to office.
This outrage against Israel resembles the actions of a state trying to undermine an enemy power!!! It needs to be protested at the highest level -to the Brit Ambassador in Israel, to Boy Miliband by the("We-nineteenth-century-gentlemen-of-the-Mosaic-persuasion-prefer-the-softly-softly-approach") Board of Deputies and by the Zionist Federation.
What an odious contemptible government Brown's is - on so many levels.
But now the precedent has been set, would David Cameron's do differently?

Jack R

And the US too has a blind spot on Jerusalem:

"US Consulate in Jerusalem website assumes Jerusalem is Palestinian, says nothing about Israel."
('Jihadwatch. org'.)

GaryO

D'you think Tories are going to be any different?

GeoffM

America did in fact fund the IRA for decades.

Not official policy perhaps but they did nothing to stop fundraising activities.

Fund the IRA, fund the Taliban, suck up the Saudi's etc etc.

The UK funds Islamic extremists in the hope that they won't become more extreme.

They, and we, are the agents of our own misfortune.

And now this UK Government sends other mothers sons to fight, and die, in the middle east.

I wonder how many soldiers are named Miliband, Mandleson, Vaz, Straw?

Truthtriumphs

Perhaps the fact that Foreign Secretary Milliband's mother is/was a supporter of "Jews for Justice for the Palestinians" has something to do with it.
One shouldn't always visit the sins of the parent on the offspring, but his utterances re: Israel point to that mindset.

Original Tony

As I have said before, any country that goes against Israel will go to the dogs. This is a spiritual law, not a politial or economic one.

Well, just look at Britain today. No industry worth mentioning, bankrupt, 1/3rd of the population on the dole, no empire, dying educational standards, immoral laws and a corrupt government. What a way to go UK, let's keep helping Israel's enemies!!

Joe Strummer

The US Government knew the identities of their own citizens funding and arming sectarian IRA death squads to commit mass murder yet rarely did anything in response for fear of upsetting the " Irish vote" in America. Britain's foreign policy towards Israel is indeed discriminatory and biased but thank God our own citizens are not acting like those Irish American criminals who kept the IRA death machine in operation.

blue_&_white_avenger

David: You're confusing 2 things - peace & a peace-agreement. These are 2 different things completely & unconnected. Perhaps when you talk of settlement you mean peace-settlement which again is meaningless in the Arab context as they don't recognise the legitimacy of any agreement with the infidel - Jew or otherwise.
The settlements are an obstacle to a peace-agreement since the Arabs maintain that. But a peace-agreement means nothing as we saw with the Oslo agreement which simply legitimised Arafat's terrorists & brought increasing to Israel's towns & cities.
The settlements are NOT illegal; they represent a completely moral right of the Jewish people to their homeland. It's notable that even the Arab towns in Yehuda & Shomron bear names derived from their Jewish roots. It's also worth pointing out that the situation was recognised by the Leage of Nations 90 years ago & their ruling has never been (& can't be) abrogated by the UN.
So just because the Arabs suddenly claim Judea & Samaria when 40 years ago they only claimed all the rest of Israel & just because their Left-Wing anti-semitic supporters mouth the same nonsense does not make it correct.
I suggest you refrain from commenting on this & other blogs where Israel might be discussed as your ignorance or malice or a combination of both is all too obvious.

Raymond in DC

James Hovland writes, "Ever heard of AIPAC"? In point of fact, AIPAC is supported by American Jews and Christians.It is not funded by Israel, nor does it act as a foreign agent on behalf of Israel.

tommy

Just how much is this government in debt to saudi money and just what are the terms of payback (that they would turn their backs on allies)
We have a handless,footless government that should be very careful about sucking up to islam or that's the way they could end up under sharia

John Edwards

Excellent news if the British Government actually supports some action against the continued expansion of illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

This is of course essential to achieve the two state settlement.

ahad ha'amoratsim

"AIPAC is supported by American Jews and Christians.It is not funded by Israel, nor does it act as a foreign agent on behalf of Israel." True, but those facts don't matter to anyone who thinks that Jewish Americans are not "real" American citizens, or that any American who thinks it is worth America's while to support Israel is disloyal and therefore not a "real" Ameircan either.