By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told attendees of a Technion gala event in London that the relationship between Israel and the late Queen Elizabeth II was “difficult.”
“The relationship between us and Queen Elizabeth was a little bit difficult because she believed that every one of us was either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist,” Rivlin said at the gala according to British Jewish News.
“She refused to accept any Israeli official into [Buckingham] Palace, apart from international occasions,” Rivlin added.
However, Rivlin said that King Charles III was always “So friendly” to Israeli officials.
Although Queen Elizabeth had cordial ties with Jewish leaders and Israeli ministers, she never visited Israel in her lifetime.
By contrast, when he was King Charles was Prince of Wales, he made unofficial visits to Israel in 1995 and 2016 to attend the funerals of Yitzchak Rabin and Simon Peres respectively.
He made his first official visit to Israel in 2020 when he represented the United Kingdom in the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem.
In 2009, British historian Andrew Roberts said the Queen’s unofficial policy of boycotting Israel is a result of “Arabists” within the UK’s Foreign Office:
“The true reason, of course, is that the FO [Foreign Office] has a ban on official royal visits to Israel, which is even more powerful for its being unwritten and unacknowledged.”
“As an act of delegitimization of Israel, this effective boycott is quite as serious as other similar acts, such as the academic boycott, and is the direct fault of the FO Arabists,” Roberts added.
In 2018, Prince William, the Queen’s grandson and future heir to the throne, broke with tradition by becoming the first British royal to visit Israel on an official trip. During his tour of Israel and Jordan, he also met with representatives from the Palestinian Authority.
He also paid his respects at the Jerusalem tomb of his grandmother, Princess Alice, who is honored as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for sheltering Jews during the Holocaust.
She was buried at the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Mary Magdalene, located just outside the Old City.
Her uncle was a Nazi-wannabe.
ReplyDeleteHer early governments were full of open Jew haters.
As a child, she watched as Britain lost its colonial possession of Israel to the Jews.
But despite that, I wonder. During her reign she was known to be scrupulously apolitical. No one knew her views on many subjects and that was her purpose. As Queen of the country, she knew that expressing an opinion would lead those who disagreed to think that she wasn't interested in them as subjects and she wanted all her subjects to think she was on their side.
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DeleteShe was not 'scrupulously apolitcal'. Happens to be that ALL the members of the british royal family, that is her, her Prince Philipp, the boys, girls, husbands, wifes & kids, cousins... have an ancestral internal rule to never make any political comment, speech, quote or implication in public EVER.
The UK government, be it left or right, is led by the Prime Minister.
Her husband & her mother in law were big oihevei Yisroel (she risked Nazi occupation death sentence to be matzil neshomos in Greece), as was her mother, the famous Queen Mother. I’m not aware of any anti-Semitic tendencies of her father King George VI, who if anything had rachmonnus on tens of thousands of Yiddishe kinder who he rescued from the Nazis. There is also the case of one of those kids crying to him in public which aroused mercy in him to order the boy’s parents be rescued for reunification with their son. But yes, Queen Elizabeth II was a known & very obvious anti-Semite to Yidden who personally interacted with her
ReplyDeleteFull?Awful lot of Jews in many of her governments
ReplyDelete& "more Estonians[sic] than Etonians"
True to the Amalekite tradition of her ancestors, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella YEMACH SHMAM
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