According to a report of William’s planned itinerary in the Yediot Ahronot Hebrew daily newspaper Tuesday, Kensington Palace is going to great lengths to snub Israel and insult the Netanyahu government during his trip.
On June 28, the last day of his visit, William will travel to the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel’s capital.
Jordan illegally occupied and annexed Jerusalem’s Old City, along with the rest of eastern, northern and southern Jerusalem, during the pan-Arab invasion of Israel at its birth on May 15, 1948. Israel liberated the areas during the 1967 Six Day War and quickly incorporated them into Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries.
Prince William’s father and grandfather both paid private visits to the area. Prince Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is buried at the Church of Mary Magdalene, adjacent to the Mount of Olives. Both royals visited her grave.
William is also scheduled to visit his great-grandmother’s grave during his trip. And that is where the trouble starts.
The Duke of Cambridge could have referred to his visit to Jerusalem’s Old City as a private visit, as his father and grandfather did before him. Both President Donald Trump and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz referred to their visits to the Western Wall and other religious sites in Jerusalem’s Old City as private visits.
Instead, Yediot reported, Kensington Palace has insisted that William’s visit to Jerusalem is part of his official visit to the Palestinian Authority (and what it calls the “Occupied Palestinian Territories”). That is, rather than finesse Britain’s position on the most explosive issue in the Arab conflict with Israel, Britain decided to use Prince William’s visit to do what no government, other than Pakistan, ever did: claim, in an official act, that these sections of Jerusalem belong to the Arabs, not the Jews.
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Mohammed_Goldberg
5 years ago
The IDF should have had snipers positioned along the route the Prince was taking.
William probably watches the Fake News on the BBC and CNN international.
The TV news only keeps an eye on Israel. It doesn’t watch what the Palestinians say and do. Ask a CNN viewer if they know Abbas is a Holocaust Denier, and they will be surprised.
I have nothing but contempt for Theresa May and her government, just as I have contempt for Trudeau, Angela Merkel, Macron and their governments, but writing off all the British Royals as gullible buffoons is absurd. Here is the other side to this story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44640028. William went to Temple Mount and the Western Wall where he was photographed in front of the wall in prayerful position.
Why is it that countries all over the globe believe the poison exuded from Gaza. They are known terrorists and should be treated as such. The wrong people are being villified
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago
I believe Jordan annexed East Jerusalem- the traditional center of Jewish life in the city- in 1949, in clear violatoin of UNSCR 181 and that the UK was one of the few nations to recognize the annexation.
So, from a diplomatic standpoint,the UK was just fine with a Judenrein East Jerusalem where Jews were denied access to ancient Jewish holy sites (in marked contrast to how Israel treats Moslems and Christians now that Jerusalem is united under Israeli jurisdiction). Israel owes nothing to the Brits.
Luts hope it wont take 2,000 years for the Brits to get their capitol London back. Or like the 400 years the Reconquesta took for Spain.
santashandler
5 years ago
Based on the official reason Prince Bill is visiting Jerusalem, he should be glad all he got were a few rocks thrown at his car. Perhaps the IDF could respond to the Prince’s cold reception by giving him a long list of ‘do’s and dont’s’ while he’s visiting Jerusalem. If he or his team violate any of them, the IDF can quickly remove him…….for his safety of course. The IDF can tell Prince Bill & Co. two can play that game, MF’er!!
There are quite a few ignorant comments on here regarding the British royals. Prince Harry served at least one tour of duty as an attack helicopter pilot in Helmand province, Afghanistan, and apparently proved a very good pilot shooting Muslim terrorists, and William put in more than one request to serve in Afghanistan, also as a helicopter pilot. So while I have contempt for Theresa May and her cowardly government in respect of Islam and Muslims, I believe in being fair. Not all Brits were prepared to roll over and play dead to Islam, any more than all Americans are prepared stand up and fight against Islam. In fact America has it’s share of spineless worms in the Democratic Party.
Based on the article, it appeared William was officially visiting Jerusalem to meet with Palestinians and maybe meet with Netanyahu if he was a good boy. And Israel shouldn’t feel snubbed over that? That’s real great Prince Bill served as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. But, what does his service in Afghanistan have to do with him kowtowing to Palestinians while in Jerusalem. The Israelis should be outraged.
And the American Democrat party is riddled with spineless worms.
Why don’t you see the really positive aspects of his visit to Israel e.g. today at the Kottel
with the British Chief Rabbi Mirvis and the American speaking Rabbi of the Western Wall Rabbi S Rabinowitz.
His visit to the house of the President of Israel in Jerusalem was also excellent.
He came and acted very sensibly and was diplomatic
Gee, he acted “sensibly and diplomatic.” Great. And he did it in an expensive suit. On the world stage, who’s he? He’s a polised figurehead. Why do we need to be concerned with him, or what he does.
A liberal. Ha. What a joke. Who’s the idiot. Perhaps YOU are the liberal. Who gives a fu*k about British royalty and what they do. They are the reason America was formed in the first place. You would know that if you weren’t busy fawning over pictures of the queen, in your dirty night shirt, to be bothered with history.
Do you want him. Whoever he is to boycott Israel. ?
Get into the real world. He is 37 . and will be around when our good friend Mr Trump will be long gone
Because whatever you think of the UK. he represented that Country and the visit gave Israel more positive ratings in PR than any recent visit of a public figure.
My point is that these two princes are not spineless worms and we have not been given the full story here. It’s not clear that William only met with Palestinians. He is seen at the Western wall in prayerful repose, a privilege usually reserved for Jews, or so I understand. He did not get permission from bloody Palestinian Arabs to do that and no doubt would have infuriated them when he did so and when they saw pics of him at the wall and wearing a kippah. Further, I don’t know – and neither do you – that he “kowtowed” to Palestinians. If he kowtowed to those bastards he would not have gone to Temple Mount and the Western Wall! I don’t like the angle of this visit any more than you, no doubt to some extent orchestrated by the lousy May government, but I’m not prepared to condemn him based on some of what I’ve read.
I’m not a good target to take on when it comes to such things. I grew up under apartheid in South Africa and even through my family and I opposed those policies – and through newspapers I for ten years spoke out against them, duly getting the unwelcome attention of the security police – all over the world we were hated for being white (without people bothering to find out our position on apartheid). So I came to loathe and regard with contempt the lies against South Africa that I saw and heard in Britain, the United States and Canada and the unjustified hostility sometimes experienced – and duly adopted an attitude of “screw you”. It wasn’t a neurotic reaction on my behalf, just disgust for lies and half truths. Hence why without more information I don’t write off this royal.
It was an official visit to Israel and was a PR success.
The visit to Amman and Rammalla. ,were added on
to make sure that the beastly Arabs kept quiet .
Sometimes British diplomatics get things right. As I was sceptical about it before hand
I must say it was extremely well planned and carried out.
OK he used a word or two to placate the PA. and on Govt advice. didn’t met the Mayor if Jerusalem. ..but. It was great and much less contentious than a Trump visit would be
As a long time hasbara nik I was very impressed and so should you nudniks be
‘Less contentious than a Trump visit?’ What planet are you on. Trump did far more to support Israel than that Prince has, so get off your high horse. Who gives a sh*t about what the British royals do.
I am sorry but playing up to Abbas and the Palestinians is not full support to Israel. Unless you tell the rest of the countries surrounding Israel that they must take all the Palestinians into their countries, like Jordan and Lebanon, (which kicked them out in the first place), then you are not solving the problem. The so-called Palestinian territories and Gaza do not belong to these Philistines, if you understand Biblical history.
Those who only quite recently started to call themselves “Palestinians” have nothing in common let alone an ancestry with any of those ancient peoples (like the Canaanites, Philistines etc.) who once occupied the land and disappeared and never showed up in history ever since. Not a single one of the many invaders, conquerors and occupiers of the land ever mentioned “Palestinians” while they all mentioned and recorded the Jews.
We give them money
But are they grateful?
No, they’re spiteful
And they’re hateful.
They don’t respect us so let’s surprise them;
let’s drop the Big One and pulverize them.
Asia’s crowded
Europe’s too old
Africa’s far too hot
And Canada’s too cold
South America stole our name
Let’s drop the big one
There’ll be no one left to blame us
Mahou, to get a more balanced view on this story, watch this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44640028. Prince William did go to Temple Mount and to the Western Wall where he was photographed praying.
Did this useless bonehead relic of our dark past sympathize with their frustration and get out and hug anyone? Come on Pam, inform us when something happens to someone that is important and valuable to our side like almost everyone else.
robert v g
5 years ago
Tough luck for Prince Wil.(he’s that one who’s “smile” looks like a grimace).Royal family lost my support when they took sides with the terrorists.
So maybe the dynasty must be changed like back in the 1700s, but by whom? Any current Germanic princes who is against jihad?
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
LOL! I hope one cracked him in the nutz for being a NUTZ.
Don’t they understand? These people DON’T LIKE YOU. You cannot be nice to them – they be nice to us (a Gimme Cat ‘ah belief).
They HATE YOUR GUTS but will take your BALLS, William of Cambridge!
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
Poppey
5 years ago
Caroline Glick is a hardened warrior for her country and a woman I could get along with anytime, right woman, right job and I’m sure she understands that the British royal family are at the disposal of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as such, are wheeled out when needed to undertake visits to support the official position of which ever government is in power.
As any half wit can testify, the FCO has been “pro Arab” for over a century, this has little to do with the excellence of Arabs but everything to do with political power plays in the national interest {like any other country today}.
Like all powerful departments of state, the FCO has selective memory and a real fear of “losing face” so when IN a hole, it can take a lot to stop them “digging” further. They have been known to cling like a drowning man to matchsticks before, and this is the case here, in the “pecking” order, William is the furthest the FCO will go to avoid upsetting Trump, but they’ve sent a message from the government non the less, he’ll understand.
It’s time Trump played the “bully”, Teaser May is asking for it.
Poppey, back when LBJ was POTUS, he met with the Soviet premier, Andrew Kosygin. Kosygin said to Lyndon that there were three million Jews (in Israel) and 80 million Arabs. It made no sense to back Israel. That old amoral wheeler dealer, LBJ, who made tens of millions of dollars serving the public ( back when that was a lot of money, lol), replied that it was US policy because it was the right thing to do.
Now not denying nations act primarily in their own self interests, but at least with respect to the US, there also has been a tradition of leaders wanting to do what is right. The pre-WWII Churchill-Roosevelt alliance might be another such example.
LS
P.S. Don’t count on Trump understanding any messages delivered with subtlety!
Buck
5 years ago
The Muslim respects nothing. Power is what they fear. Any kindness to them will be looked at as a sign of weakness
Spike1047
5 years ago
What did the FCO think would happen? Did they really think that the routes would be thronged with Union Jack-waving children? Dream on. The FCO are total fools and should be admonished for putting the Prince in great danger.
vercingetorix
5 years ago
This so called “palestinian authority”is not even capable of providing security for the small territory over which it has jurisdiction, not even for its international visitors! How on earth could it be capable of providing security for anybody when it is in charge of a whole state (which with the help of God will never be created) !?
HOW MISERABLE!
Defence Man
5 years ago
This report surprises me as I did not know that the royal family had taken this approach to Palestine. This seems to fit with the dramatic decline in Britain’s place in the free world. They appear to be appeasing Islam everywhere for reasons unknown to me.
I think Israel should ignore this visit by royalty and let him wonder on his own, no politicians and no security !
Apothis
5 years ago
What the hell was he doing going to Palestine in the first place? Hopefully he got his eyes opened to this culture of refugee rejects stuck in the middle ages.
Gee, man, or whatever you are, now you are writing crap. Look for my blogs above, William went to Temple Mount and the Western well. His brother, Harry fought as a helicopter pilot in the Afghan war and proved an accomplished pilot shooting Muslim Taliban. He infuriated Muslims when saying that shooting this trash is was like “playing video games”. William put in more than one request to be sent to Afghanistan.
How could I resist reading your posts, especially since you’re such a complimentary fellow? So Harry has what influential ear in the UK? A royal road trip doesn’t make for policy changes was my point. Good on him for his military service…
Ziggy46
5 years ago
The Palestinians are the scum of this planet. Uncivilized, bent on terrorism and debauchery; Pals are murderous, bigoted thugs and ingrates. No surprise after all this fetid pile of excrement is undeserved of any aid it receives from the dullard West, nor the support and financial aid hand-out by the UN, EU, and other gullible peoples duped by this toxic cess-pit.
One need not ask, why the other Muslim countries do naught for this contagion feigning civilization. The West swallows the propaganda swill disseminated by them and of course, their Western allies from every walk of life.
Michael Jacobs
5 years ago
The cited Caroline Glick article (another great thinker, right up there with Ms. Geller) is, unfortunately, misleading in implying that only Pakistan recognized Jordanian annexation of the “West Bank” after the 1948 war of Jordanian aggression. Archived here is a copy of Britain’s official document:
Pakistan was just following Britain’s lead. The government of the UK formally recognized the West Bank as Jordanian sovereign territory in 1950, before the ashes of the just-ended war had cooled down. But, Britain and (then-united) Pakistan were the only two nations to recognize Jordan’s attempted annexation of the West Bank. Ms. Glick is technically correct that Britain did not recognize Jordanian sovereignty over Jerusalem; but that is just because the UK held to the illusion that the 1947 partition plan’s idea of Jerusalem becoming an international city, a corpus separatum, could somehow be impliemented someday despite the Arabs’ rejection of the entire plan. The UK was, at the time, simply kicking the can down the road on the issue of Jerusalem. And it seems they have now finally come off the fence and made their decision.
What that means is that the language used by the CFO publicity materials on the recent royal visit is no accident. Britain created Jordan. Britain armed Jordan and trained Jordan’s Arab Legion and led it with British officers during the 1948 war. Britain would have been perfectly happy if Jordan had succeeded in wiping out Israel. And when they didn’t, Britain stood nearly alone in the world in recognizing Jordan’s ill-gotten gains-by-conquest. All this after Britain had dropped the ball on its League of Nations Mandate to foster and encourage, not limit, Jewish immigration to the territory of Palestine, and Britain’s Mandate administration and police forces turning a blind eye to causeless Arab aggression and murder of Jews during the 1922-1948 Mandate period. It’s nice that Britain seems to want to kiss and make up, with Israel, but their government is still deep in the Arab mindset with no sign of that changing.
Rob Porter
5 years ago
I live in Canada and what I incessantly see in regard to Islam and truthfulness about the perverted homosexual and transgender life-styles is “weak, politically correct people …” who don’t want the truth and consider as mentally deranged anyone who deviates from their line of thinking – even after researching and finding out all the facts. Western Europe has lost it’s mind, is secular, believes in nothing, and chooses to be ignorant about Islam, but there are millions of North Americans, liberals, who are just as ignorant, stupid and cowardly who would open their borders to people who want to destroy them and their societies.
Finally your making a little sense. Just stop trying to convince everyone on here that Prince Bill and his little bro are all that.
R. Arandas
5 years ago
This will probably set back U.K.-Palestinian relations back decades…
Mal M
5 years ago
Arabs remain Arabs.
darnash
5 years ago
Could not have happened to a more deserving guy. But he will still castigate the Jews and Israel. Somehow the British are damn clueless when it comes to the difference between the scum Palestinians (Philistines) and the gift to mankind Israel and Jews.
Michael Dar
5 years ago
Expectations from that Royal visit expressed by some in Israel was much to high. It didn’t impress me nor was I the least exited about it. I wonder what the guy really knows about the Arab-Israeli conflict. He should perhaps, among other things have apologized for British failure to fulfill their obligations of their League of Nations mandate, for having restricted even at some times stopped Jewish immigration all together, for having arbitrarily created Jordan, for have taken the side of the Arabs in Israel’s war of independence etc.
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