Posted on 07/31/2010 9:50:54 PM PDT by Nachum
Israel's president has accused the English of being anti-semitic and claimed that MPs pander to Muslim voters.
Shimon Peres said England was "deeply pro-Arab ... and anti-Israeli", adding: "They always worked against us."
He added: "There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary."
His remarks, made in an interview on a Jewish website, provoked anger from senior MPs and Jewish leaders who said the 87-year-old president had "got it wrong".
But other groups backed the former Israeli prime minister and said the number of anti-semitic incidents had risen dramatically in the UK in recent years.
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You think Peres, who was an top aid to Ben Gurion, who lived through and fought against all of Britain’s anti Israel deeds over the past century, who heard last week the British PM call Gaza the world largest prison (as repulsive an anti Israel lie as one can utter) was reacting in a knee jerk fashion? Really.
I think you object when Jews react to what is inflicted on them. Too bad.
I believe that Peres has a personal history with the British that explains his bigotry toward them today. I understand why he feels the way he does. However, my concern is that others are defending his statement. The Brits are like everyone else, they have their share of bigots... just as Israel and every other country has.
You trot out the “Perfidious Albion” trope repeatedly, but what was Britain supposed to do? Simply allow a massive influx of Jewish people to push out the Arabs living in the area? That wasn’t what the Balfour declaration or the League of Nations mandate had committed us to.
Britain was supposed to do what Britain pledged to do.
Jews had as much of a right -if not more- to move to Palestine.
Britain had no problem with all the Arabs that flooded to Palestine to find work as Jews were building a society out of NOTHING.
I notice you don’t address that Britain UNILATERALLY carved out 2/3’s of the Palestine Mandate, meant as the Jewish national home, and just gave it to the Arabs.
yup
Bigotry arises of out a bigot's unclear thinking.
Peres bases his opinion about the British based on history (that he actually lived and actively participated in )and truths.
That is plain dumb and an oft repeated wise guy remark on the internet. Pick up a dictionary or thesaurus for an explanation and look up the phrase anti-Semitic. It means anti_Jewish because Jews have been a part of Western and European civilization for centuries while Arabs have not. Europe has had to repulse Arab Muslim invasions a few times. But these days they allow the Muslim invasion by immigration, giving them outlandish social benefits and then they knock out a million kids
All European Life Died In Auschwitz
Maybe the British will get what they deserve when Islam inevitability rules there.
I believe his name was Disraeli. He began life as a Jew, but was converted to Anglicanism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli
Please tell us what they deserve?
Britain is worse among the educated and political classes. I have read accounts of nice dinner parties where leftist types and conservatives both vent their anti-Semitism and anti- Israelism. It is a happy pastime for them as these uber idiots allow and encourage Muslims to flood into the UK. My general impression of the UK is they much prefer Muslims over Jews. They have a loopy Arabism going on there same as Prince Charles does. They have a philo-Muslim thing going on
The average Brit....maybe some are more concerned about Muslims and other foreigners flooding into the UK than he is about Israel and Jews
I’ve been to the UK many times. I’ve never heard anything anti-semetic. I have heard lots of anti-Muslim comments in the streets of London. Maybe you are correct, that its a class thing. I don’t know the elite. But the average brit doesn’t really even think about Jews. The muslims do scare the heck out of them.
“His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
Britain had no right to unilaterally give 2/3’s to the Arabs and they did not keep their word to “use their best endeavours to facilitate” a Jewish homeland. They did just the opposite.
It speaks for itself. A century of turmoil and war and bloodshed - with no end in sight- is directly attributable to their done damage and their lies and double dealing.
I wrote what they deserve. They deserve the Islam they seem to crave.
Actually I like the English in the abstract and hope they come to their senses that Islam is their enemy not Israel..... A few good Muslim uprisings and riots will help but that may take years down the road until Muslim critical mass is reached via immigration Invasion and explosive Muslim birthrates
BTW --- Few days ago I heard an English Jewish woman call in a radio show. She moved her family hear because her children's school busses were getting stoned on the way to Jewish day school
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