Who Faces the Greater Threat- Sir Alan Duncan or Israel?
by David Robertson, theweeflea;
Last week I predicted that Israel would be a major issue in 2017 – it was not exactly the gift of foresight, its 100 years since the Balfour Declaration and the existence of this one small state has been a major issue ever since the Second World War. But nonetheless I was surprised to see the ‘prophecy’ coming true with a week! The headline news over the weekend was of the Alan Duncan Israeli ‘sting’ where some silly remarks by a minor Israeli Embassy official have been blown into a major row. Lots of shock/horror pompous remarks about Israelis influencing British government etc.
Meanwhile there is something a little more serious going on in Israel – Four Soldiers killed in Jerusalem A Palestinian terrorist ran a lorry into a group of young Israeli soldiers killing four of them including three women.
What can we learn from all of this?
- There is still a deep-seated hatred of Israel and of the Jews. This does not mean that everyone who objects to the settlements on the West Bank is anti-Semitic, nor that the Israeli government should not be held accountable for any human rights abuses. But we do need to recognise that there is a real and present danger to Israel and it is constant. Millions of people living around that tiny country want to see it destroyed.
- Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the UK and Europe and we must be really careful not to let it hide under the guise of human rights protests. I am intrigued that there are some politicians who were very quick to tweet their abhorrence of the action of the minor official at the Israeli Embassy, but have yet to tweet anything about the death of the four young people in Jerusalem. Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary managed to tweet about the horror of a minor Israeli diplomat talking about ‘taking down’ a Tory minister, but not a word about the terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Likewise Alex Salmond, the foreign spokesperson for the SNP who tweeted:
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