There historical facts about England and the Jews.
(A) In 1290, King Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. Lasting for the rest of the Middle Ages, it would be over 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656.
(B)[In a betrayal of the Balfour Declaration- and resulting in dooming many Jews to Hitler]
The White Paper of 1939, also known as the MacDonald White Paper after Malcolm MacDonald, the British Colonial Secretary who presided over it, was a policy paper issued by the British government under Neville Chamberlain in which the idea of partitioning the Mandate for Palestine, as recommended in the Peel Commission Report of 1937, was abandoned in favour of creating an independent Palestine governed by Palestinian Arabs and Jews in proportion to their numbers in the population by 1949 (section I). A limit of 75,000 Jewish immigrants was set for the five-year period 1940-1944, consisting of a regular yearly quota of 10,000, and a supplementary quota of 25,000, spread out over the same period, to cover refugee emergencies. After this cut-off date, further immigration would depend on the permission of the Arab majority (section II). Restrictions were also placed on the rights of Jews to buy land from Arabs (section III).
[c]Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC better known as Glubb Pasha (born 16 April 1897, Preston, Lancashire – died 17 March 1986, Mayfield, Sussex), was a British soldier best known for leading and training Transjordan’s Arab Legion 1939-1956 as its commanding general. [A serving British officer led the Jordanians in attacking the newly declared State of Israel]
Considering the damage they have done I believe it’s fair to consider the British as a people and Government (certainly not all individuals), as one of the Jewish peoples great foes.
For once, Peres, who lived through the British occupation of the Land of Israel and knows all the dealings of perfidious Albion, spoke honestly.
Rather curious, then,don't you think, that both main political parties in Britain should choose within a few years of each other to elect a Jewish leader (and thus potential prime minister) - Michael Howard (Cameron's predecessor) for the Conservatives, and the two Milliband brothers, one of whom is almost certain to be elected the next Labour leader. And that there have been numerous prominent Jewish cabinet ministers in almost every British government, of both parties, for generations - in numbers which, I would guess, exceed the proportion of Jews in the general population by a large factor.
For those who haven't bothered to read the whole article, it's worth repeating the quote from British Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain:
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, minister of Maidenhead synagogue and a writer and broadcaster, said: "I am surprised at Peres. It is a sweeping statement that is far too one-sided.
"Britain has supported both Israel and Arab causes at different periods over the last 50 years. There are elements of anti-semitism but it is not endemic to British society.
"The tolerance and pluralism here make Britain one of the best countries in the world in which to live."
This is far closer to the reality than yours or others of the sweeping generalisations from Peres and others on this thread.
yup
There was double dealing all around in the 1940s, by the Zionists as well as by everyone else.
But this is pretty remarkable: one off the wall remark by Peres and "the Anglosphere" goes bust.