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Hague: Israel losing support in UK over settlements
Yedioth Ahronoth News ^ | 05.24.13, 10:16 | (Ynet)

Posted on 05/24/2013 12:22:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who is currently visiting Israel, said in an interview with Sky News that Israel has lost some support in Britain and in other European countries due to its settlement construction policy.

He warned that the window of opportunity for Israel and the Palestinians to agree to form a two-state solution was closing fast. …

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antizionism; eussr; onestatecaliphate; palestinians; settlements; twostatesolution; williamhague
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Exactly. Britain and the other European countries are slowly (or not so slowly) being settled by Muslims. Have they noticed that yet? Methinks yes, but their solution is to blame Israel. If only Israel would go away, everything would be okay again. [/s]


21 posted on 05/24/2013 1:27:43 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

An utter and disgusting lie.

The Jewish population of Great Britain lives happily without any major anti-semitism. In fact, Judaism is openly celebrated as a long standing and vibrant part of British culture.

British TV ran pro-Jewish documentaries across all five of its network channels last year. Did America?.

British Jewish entertainers, writers, politicians and businesspeople openly celebrate their Jewishness. The London East End Jew, with his sharp wit and mouth is as well loved and known a cultural icon as the Glaswegian or the Cockney.

The current British Prime Minister is part Jewish. As is the deputy PM. As is the leader of the opposition party(Labour). So you have Jewish-descended people in the three most important political positions in the UK.

Are Obama, Biden and Romney Jewish?......

Your post is disgusting. The comments about Britain are simply obnoxious. They are a disgusting slander on the vast, vast majority of the British people. Who are no more antisemitic than their American cousins.

The UK is the nation that rejected the naked antisemitism of the 1930’s Fascists, and continues to reject the antisemitism of the BNP and other fringe neo-nazi parties and groups. The nation that stood alone against Hitler, while America and others stood by. And the nation that liberated Belsen and saved Jewish lives.

To suggest that the British people are antisemitic OR that the jews of Britain are victims of mass cultural or physical antisemitism is a downright and disgusting lie.


22 posted on 05/24/2013 1:32:11 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: the scotsman

Then your countrymen need to grow a spine and stop electing Labour Party and start electing people like Lady Thatcher. Much like we need to stop electing the metrosexual who promises to put the most people on the dole.


23 posted on 05/24/2013 1:36:46 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: the scotsman

P.S. A recent poll says that 1 in 10 young people in England are Muslims. Friend, you are being invaded.


24 posted on 05/24/2013 1:37:48 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: the scotsman

I know what you say is true, and I know several elders who emigrated as children (thru Harwich, a port I have been to a dozen times because I worked on a ship and reprovisioned many many times in Harwich) to England and were settled out in the countryside... although the numbers are not “millions”.

That they did this is a historical fact I am grateful for and would never deny. But I have NEVER heard ONE comment favorable to the Jews from any Brit. The Zionism issue and Jews as people or as a religion are to me separate issues though they both have my unequivocal support.


25 posted on 05/24/2013 1:38:45 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: the scotsman
And even IF people in the UK criticise Israeli policy, its a lazy argument to equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism

I knew you would chime in with your usual blather, and so you have. Israel-bashing damn well IS anti-Semitism, and those who do it most always seem to hate Jews the most (what a coincidence!). There's no "policy" here exc ept denying Israel its own land, and supporting the LIE of "Palestine". These are just Arabs. There are 22 Arab states these squatters can move to. There is only ONE Jewish State.

26 posted on 05/24/2013 1:43:06 PM PDT by montag813 (Nothing)
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To: the scotsman

If that statement is a lie, then each and every salient experience I had while living in the UK for a year and a half, plus about ten months working on ships with mostly British engineering crew and many English musicians (and, by the way, not the Scotch nor the Irish folks I met, for some reason) without a single exception, is a lie. I’ve never heard a single kind word for the Jews from a Brit. But I’m OK with it, I accept it.


27 posted on 05/24/2013 1:46:02 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: the scotsman

Canada stood with em.


28 posted on 05/24/2013 1:55:34 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Oh, there will be bigots. But to say all British or the British people are anti-semitic is nonsense and frankly offensive. As offensive as me saying Americans are antisemitic.


29 posted on 05/24/2013 1:56:36 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: montag813

Again, the anti-israeli mob are a minority and do not speak for the British people, who are not and have never been an antisemitic people, be they Scots, Welsh, Irish or English.

Dont let their loud voices fool you. Remember that comment about empty vessels.


30 posted on 05/24/2013 1:58:49 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: Bulwyf

You stood by us in 1914, 1939. And thank you for it.
And you almost keep quiet about it.


31 posted on 05/24/2013 2:00:15 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: the scotsman

Once in a while I like to remind some folks that Canadians have stood for freedom too. We will again when the time comes, which I think is soon. We can’t let freedom slip away, I will not leave my children to grow up in a fascist state.


32 posted on 05/24/2013 2:05:43 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Olog-hai
Hague: Israel losing support in UK over settlements.

Hague: American citizens losing support in Free Islamic Europe over opposition to The First Muslim...

Who gives a chit?

33 posted on 05/24/2013 2:18:41 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: the scotsman
Again, the anti-israeli mob are a minority and do not speak for the British people, who are not and have never been an antisemitic people, be they Scots, Welsh, Irish or English.

I am part Scot (father's mum from Aberdeen), and am not saying they are Jew haters. I never speak of the PEOPLE of the UK, but rather the elites, which have a massive Arab preference.

34 posted on 05/24/2013 2:20:02 PM PDT by montag813
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To: the scotsman
Again, the anti-israeli mob are a minority and do not speak for the British people, who are not and have never been an antisemitic people, be they Scots, Welsh, Irish or English.

I am part Scot (father's mum from Aberdeen), and am not saying they are Jew haters. I never speak of the PEOPLE of the UK, but rather the elites, which have a massive Arab preference.

35 posted on 05/24/2013 2:20:05 PM PDT by montag813
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To: ontap
There is no such place as Palestine....it is an imaginary state cooked up by Jordon and the other Arab nations in protest of the UN doctrine creating the state of Israel. Israel should clear all the so called Palestinians out...deport them to neighboring Arab nations and take that property as spoils of war!!!

It's documented history.

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism."
PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, March 31, 1977

36 posted on 05/24/2013 2:22:02 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: montag813

Thats fine.

Some people here have said the British people are anti-semitic. I accept you dont.


37 posted on 05/24/2013 2:24:58 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: the scotsman; montag813

I disagree. My experience with British migrants in NZ whether they are evangelical Christians of various stripes, social activists of the leftist stripe, or non-political work contacts, all have a rather unfavourable opinion of Jews in general and the State of Israel in particular. The only exception is a couple in their 70s who would have had memories of the 1940s and the Holocaust. The majority people come from all walks if life everywhere in the British Isles, and only a minority are from Fleet Street like circles, and have views from the Greens to the right-wing of the Tories.

I can’t remember how many times I’ve heard from these guys the Jews control the US foreign policies, how powerful the Jews are, how Americans in general bend over backwards towards their own Jews, how the Jews are rather still looking their eyes towards Israel, how poor those Palestinians suffered at the hands if the Israeli Jews. Even many Kiwis find their rhetoric excessive.


38 posted on 05/24/2013 6:31:36 PM PDT by NZerFromHK
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

A couple of muzzies (one a convert) of Nigerian descent murder a British serviceman and brag about it — it wasn’t going to be long before the “Conservative” party (or Labour, they’re just not in charge right now) started to dump on Israel. Thanks Olog-hai.


39 posted on 05/24/2013 7:08:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Olog-hai

Not under the present Jordanian leadership....but that was not so in the late forties!!!


40 posted on 05/24/2013 7:53:26 PM PDT by ontap
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