European nations are Israel’s closest neighbours outside of the Middle East. I agree that there is a lot of anti-Israeli sentiment in Europe, but Israel should be doing its part to reach out to Europe. It needs to court European nations as allies and counter Arab and Muslim influence. How is it supposed to do that by adopting your kind of hostile, petulant attitude?
I have to say, I have strong reason to disagree with Mexico being amongst the ‘worlds most powerful countries’. It is a lawless narco-republic, Americans should know this better than anyone.
I also have to laugh at Russia being pro-Israeli when they are the staunchest supporters and defenders of Syria and Iran, the very two muslim countries that are the most implacably hostile to Israel and the ones that actively support and sponsor terrorist attacks against Israel.
As for China, I’m aware they are on pretty good terms with Israel, because the latter has sold China a lot of high-tech defence equipment to them over the years, despite a lot of Americans on this very forum raging against Israel’s ‘betrayal’ (when in fact they were only looking out for their own interests, which is natural).
However, what I don’t really understand is what your agenda is here. What is it that you want? Do you want Israel to have poor relations with Britain and the rest of Europe? Notwithstanding the current economic crisis, the European nations are still powerful potential allies diplomatically, politically, militarily and economically, and they are right in Israel’s back yard. It makes more sense for Israel to try and build bridges and gain influence in Europe. Your idea of great Israeli policy is to spite Britain and the rest of Europe and drive them further into the hands of the Arabists. I just wonder what it is exactly that you hope to achieve by Israel boycotting Britain, other than gain some spiteful revenge for British embargos on weapons sales during times of rising tensions. All that would achieve is to strengthen the hands of the Arabists. Does it not enter your head that by being responsible for supplying important aspect of Britain’s military assets, Israel would have an ace up its sleeve to counter the influence of Arabists who put pressure on Whitehall to place these embargos on Israel in the first place?
See #20.