London – Report: British Royal Family To End Decades-long Boycott Of Israel

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    Britain's Queen Elizabeth in London, Britain, March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleLondon – The British Royal House will “likely” send a member of the family to Israel on an official visit, senior diplomats said, indicating a decision to end a decades-long silent boycott of the Jewish state.

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    British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told Israeli President Reuven Rivlin he would ask the Royal House to arrange a visit this year during Johnson’s visit to Israel this week, The Times of London reported Thursday. Senior diplomats then told the Daily Express such a visit was “likely” to occur this year, the centennial anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

    Signed on Nov. 2, 1917, by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the Balfour Declaration stated that the British government “views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and would use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object.”

    The declaration, issued while the area that is now Israel was still under the control of the Ottoman Empire, represented a pivotal victory for Zionists and has been credited with helping pave the way for the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

    But relations between the Zionist movements and Great Britain deteriorated after the British were given the Mandate on Palestine – an area comprising modern-day Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority – by the League of Nations in 1918. Amid violent uprisings by local Arabs, the British severely limited Jewish immigration to the area they controlled, including when Nazis murdered 6 million Jews in Europe.

    By the late 1940s, all the major Jewish Zionist movements in pre-state Israel were engaged in armed insurrection designed to drive out the British, who regarded these actions – and especially the deadly King David Bombing in 1946 – as terrorism.

    Whereas members of the British Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth, have visited Kenya and other countries where acts perceived as terrorism were committed against Britain and its citizens by anti-colonialist combatants, they have stayed away from Israel in their official capacity since the country’s establishment.

    Neither Elizabeth nor Prince Charles are expected to visit Israel. Instead, a more junior member of the family — perhaps Princess Anne or Prince Edward — will be called upon to visit Israel, according to the Daily Express.


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    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    7 years ago

    If they are really ending the decades long boycott, then they should send a senior member of the Royal Family. Otherwise they should stay home. Prince Phillip can come on his own to visit his mother’s grave as he has done in the past.

    mythoughts
    mythoughts
    7 years ago

    These high class welfare recipients should stay home.

    7 years ago

    I can’t imagine what it would be like if Britain still had the mandate and the Palestinian TERRORISTS would be stabbing, shooting, blowing up British men, women & children – would Britain shoot back or go to the UN to stop the violence?

    7 years ago

    Prince Charles and Prince Phillip have come to Israel in the past; however, neither involved official state visits. Prince Phillip was recently in Israel at the funeral of Shimon Peres. However, her majesty, Queen Elizabeth has not been in Israel at all, in her sixty five years on the throne. Not only has she visited Kenya, as was noted in this article, but she has visited a number of Arab countries. Why doesn’t the House of Windsor stop playing games. Of course, they will probably state that “the Queen is too old to make such a trip”.

    Benny
    Benny
    7 years ago

    I would suggest even more,
    Let this old lady that has neither power or money to stay home together with her son who cheated on his wife when she was alive,
    Especially after they boycotted Israel for a decade.
    We have enough shmendricks without them that visit the holy land.

    Let them first prove it that they are worthy of a such visit!

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    7 years ago

    Prince of Windsor was an admirer of Hitler

    Sholi-Katz
    Sholi-Katz
    7 years ago

    Any one that knows history, will see a clear link form the royal family to the Nazi regime. They had family in the Nazi regime, and were only half heart to fight back against them in difference to average Englishman. Let them all whither away in their mansions, they are only a “show and tell” group these days

    7 years ago

    Seeing is believing

    7 years ago

    The queen is wearing a blue ensemble and white pearls to demonstrate solidarity with Israel through its national colors.

    Speaksoftly
    Speaksoftly
    7 years ago

    Truly, who cares? They don’t reflect state policy, nor do they add to Israel’s legitimacy. They are a tourist prop and an anachronistic symbol of oppression. True royalty resides in working class hpmes where parents sacrifice for the benefit of their children.
    oppression . True royalty resides

    Tsfat-Breslover-Kotzker
    Tsfat-Breslover-Kotzker
    7 years ago

    The queen of England’s assertion of house of Windsor is a farce.
    It is well known that her lineage is the house of Saxe-Gotha.
    They adopted the alias Windsor title during WWI to distance themselves from the reality of a German Royal Family ruling Great Britain.
    Reality may hurt. But it’s still the truth.