Prince Charles was in Israel to take part in the observance of the 75th anniversary since the liberation of Auschwitz. He went to the President’s House, to be greeted by President Reuven Rivlin. He visited the Israel Museum, where he saw the Dead Sea Scrolls and other visible evidence of the Jews’ connection, over more than 2000 years, to the Land of Israel.
During his visit to Bethlehem, the prince visited the Church of the Nativity, where he attended an unprecedented Ecumenical Service marking what his official residence, Clarence House, tweeted was the “first time that the three Christian churches have collectively held a service to celebrate the contribution of Christian communities across the Holy Land and wider Middle East.”
Has Prince Charles forgotten how Palestinian terrorists, from Hamas, Fatah, and Islamic Jihad, took over the Church of the Nativity in 2002, bringing guns and explosives with them, and firing on the Israelis from inside the church, knowing that the Israelis, unlike themselves, would demonstrate their respect for the sanctity of the place and not enter?
As for “celebrating the contribution of Christian communities” in the Holy Land and “the wider Middle East,” Prince Charles could help the dwindling Christian communities by raising his voice in protest at their mistreatment, from the killings of Assyrians and Chaldeans in Iraq to the bombing of Coptic Churches in Egypt. He might also try to discover, even perhaps ask aloud of his “Palestinian” hosts, why it is that the percentage of Christians in Bethlehem has steadily declined, from 86% in 1950 to less than 10% today, and further, why did the percentage not decrease during the years when Israel controlled Bethlehem. He could also ask why there were 5,000 Christians in Gaza when the Israelis pulled out in 2005, and fewer than 1,000 in the Strip today.
He also met with local storekeepers and iconographers, visited the Mosque of Omar, held a reception at which he met with “guests including people who work with Palestinian refugees and Palestinian Christians,” Clarence House said.
This is the first time that the three Christian churches have collectively held a service to celebrate the contribution of Christian communities across the Holy Land and wider Middle East.
According to WAFA, Abbas, hosting the prince later in the day, thanked the UK “for its assistance to the Palestinian people in building state institutions, as well as its assistance to the UNRWA, and for accepting the two-state solution and rejecting the US-led “deal of the century.”
The U.K. has in the past accepted the “two-state solution,” but that was before Boris Johnson became Prime Minister. Johnson has been described as the most pro-Israel prime minister in British history, and his cabinet the most pro-Israel as well, with Sajid Javid (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Dominic Raab (Foreign Secretary), and Priti Patel (Home Secretary). It is possible that, following the American “deal of the century,” the U.K. may rethink its support for a “two-state solution,” a meretricious phrase that assumes what must be proven – that “two states” are indeed a “solution.” Those who recognize that the Jihad against Israel has no end until the Jewish state disappears understand that any “solution” that weakens Israeli deterrence will whet, not sate, Arab Muslim appetites for more.
As for Abbas’ thanking the U.K. for “rejecting the US-led ‘deal of the century,’” the U.K. had not done so, and could not have done so, since that “deal” had not yet been made public at the time Abbas spoke.
When Mahmoud Abbas refers to the U.K.’s help in building “state institutions” for the Palestinians, what can he have had in mind? It couldn’t have been “democratic” institutions, for the PA is run by a despot who is serving the fifteenth year of a four-year presidential term, and who has, with his sons, amassed a $400 million fortune. The U.K. did not help build an independent judiciary, for there is none in the Palestinian Authority. The U.K. could not have helped build a strong parliamentary democracy, because the Palestine Legislative Council (the Parliament) has been defunct for over 12 years. Finally, the U.K. can’t have helped put in place strong human-rights guarantees, because there are none in the PA – no guaranteed freedom of speech, no right of assembly, no free exercise of religion, no equality between the sexes – in the police state run for the benefit of Mahmoud Abbas, his family, and his collaborators.
“Our hope in the near future,” WAFA further quoted Abbas saying, “is that Britain recognizes the State of Palestine, because we’ve heard that the British Parliament recommended this to the government. So we hope that this will happen.”
Hope away, Mahmoud Abbas. There will be no British recognition of the State of Palestine, one suspects, as long as Boris Johnson is P.M., and his cabinet continues to include Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, and Priti Patel.
WAFA said Prince Charles praised “the historical Palestinian-British relations and said he looks forward to achieving a just peace in the region.”
Prince Charles should be reminded that there is little to praise, and much to criticize, about those “historical Palestinian-British relations,” and what they meant for the Jews of Mandatory Palestine and in Europe, too. When Arabs were murdering defenseless Jews in Jerusalem in 1920, and the Jewish leader Vladimir Jabotinsky tried to organize a defense force for the Jews, the British did not punish the Arab killers, but sentenced Jabotinsky to 15 years in jail (an international outcry followed, leading to Jabotinsky’s release).
In another infamous chapter of “Palestinian (Arab)-British relations,” the British closed off to Jewish immigration 77% of the territory originally to have been assigned, according to the Mandate for Palestine, to the future Jewish state, and handed all of Palestine east of the Jordan River over to the Hashemite Emir Abdullah, to form his newly-created Emirate of Transjordan.
In 1929, when the Arabs conducted a pogrom against the Jews in Hebron, the second holiest city in Judaism, the British had received advance notice of the Arab plans, but sent no additional police or troops to protect the Jews. There was exactly one British policeman, Raymond Cafferata, who commanded a force of 18 mounted police and 15 on foot in Hebron. All but one were Arabs, and later, during the pogrom, some of those Arab policemen joined in the killing. It was a horrible business; babies were decapitated; women raped and disemboweled; in the end, no Jews were left in Hebron. Had the British cared, they could easily have sent reinforcements and prevented the whole thing.
During the Arab Revolt, that lasted from 1936 to 1939, the British took little interest in helping the Jews defend themselves against Arab attacks. There was one British officer, Captain Orde Wingate, a Christian Zionist and deeply sympathetic to the Jews. He helped organize and train Jews to take the fight to the enemy. He founded the Special Night Squads of Jewish fighters who went on the offensive against marauding Arabs. However, his deepening political involvement with the Zionist cause and an incident where he spoke publicly in favor of the formation of a Jewish state while he was on leave in Britain caused his superiors in Palestine to remove him from command. He was so deeply associated with political causes in Palestine — i.e., his support for Zionism — that they considered him compromised as an intelligence officer in the country. He was too much on the side of the Jews for their taste, and in May 1939, he was transferred to Britain. He later helped the Ethiopians resist Mussolini’s forces, and then, during the Second World War, Wingate was sent to Burma, where he organized the Chindits, a guerrilla force that harried the Japanese. Wingate died in a plane crash in Burma, and is buried, along with the American servicemen, who died with him at Arlington National Cemetery. He is considered the father of the IDF. Among the British military and civilian authorities in Mandatory Palestine, Wingate stood out as the lone pro-Jewish exception.
In 1939, the British government adopted a White Paper that limited Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine to 15,000 a year, for five years, after which any Jewish immigration would be subject to an Arab veto, which in practice meant an end to such immigration. At a time of maximum peril for Europe’s Jews, the British government, to placate the Arabs, limited Jewish immigration to 15,000 a year through the entire war, and blocked Jews from entering Palestine. Perhaps as many as a million Jews, it has been suggested, might have been saved – the warm-water ports of Romania stayed open all through the war – had the British fulfilled their own solemn responsibilities under the Mandate for Palestine, to “facilitate Jewish immigration” and to encourage “close Jewish settlement on the land.”
After World War II, when surviving Jews in D.P. camps in Europe were trying to reach Palestine, British ships turned back these desperate people. The most famous example of this was the Exodus, a ship carrying 4,500 Jewish refugees from D.P. camps in Europe to Palestine in 1947. The British kept the ship from unloading passengers in Palestine, and instead the ship, with its desperate human cargo, was forced to return to Europe, and the Jews on board were sent back to D.P. camps in Germany.
One final example of British “even-handedness.” While the British, and the Americans placed an embargo on arms to both Arabs and Jews inside Palestine itself during the 1947-1949 hostilities, the British had previously armed Egyptian and Iraqi forces, and the British both armed and trained the Arab Legion of Jordan which, under the command of Sir John Glubb (“Glubb Pasha”), proved to be the best fighting force on the Arab side during the 1948-49 war, responsible for seizing, and holding, the West Bank.
Prince Charles should, in his library at Clarence House, study the history of how the British discharged their responsibilities when they held the Mandate for Palestine. He could start by reading the Mandate’s provisions, and studying its maps. He could look into how the Emirate of Transjordan was created by the British, who closed off all of Eastern Palestine to Jewish immigration, and instead handed over that territory to the Hashemite Abdullah, in order to create a state for him to rule. He could investigate how the British during the Mandate period treated the Jews, both those living in Palestine, and those who were prevented from finding refuge in Palestine from the Nazis. It might have a salutary effect, making Prince Charles more aware of what the Jews of Palestine endured because of British perfidy, and possibly, make him less quick to embrace the “Palestinians” whose supposed “suffering” so concerns him. If he engages in such study, he will discover that the suffering and betrayals endured by the Jews of Mandatory Palestine at the hands of the British were of a different order altogether.
Spiro says
Does it break his heart to see the suffering of middle Easter Christians
Will he speak up for their plight most likely not
Once again talk talk talk by people
Who could help but don’t
mortimer says
He did. Prince Charles organized a conference to discuss the problem of the genocide against Christians in the Middle East. The Leftards made sure it got little coverage.
gravenimage says
This hasn’t stopped the Prince’s love affair with Islam, though–or the Muslims who are slaughtering Christians.
Jeff Gonez says
Correct, he has always been a retard.
Rufolino says
The comment that Prince Charles is retarded is an insult uncalled for.
As everyone here is aware, to tread on the ground of Israel and the Near East is to walk on a million eggshells.
Prince Charles hasn’t got his emphases right, but who could ? At least he is trying, within almost impossible constraints. What he has contributed to the cauldron is some goodwill.
gravenimage says
Rufolino–with all respect–Prince Charles has always been disturbingly Islamophilic.
Michael Copeland says
“Prince Charles Will Raise Plight of Christians During Saudi Arabia Visit”
https://time.com/3700684/prince-charles-saudi-arabia/. Feb. 2015
“The plight of persecuted Christians has been a topic high on his agenda. In a Christmas address last year he said “it is heart-breaking beyond words to see just how much pain and suffering is being endured by Christians, in this day and age, simply because of their faith”. He also used this year’s Easter message to call for an end to religious persecution.”
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2018/12/%C2%AD%C2%AD%C2%ADprince-charles-praises-extraordinary-grace-and-forgiveness-of-christians-in-middle-east/ Dec 2018
gravenimage says
Yes–Christians are very forgiving–too bad this just makes Muslims consider them weak. They must have been laughing at this ponce. But he still loves Islam.
Peter35 says
Isn’t Charlie one of the Bilderberg, Coudenhove-Kalergi gang? He is, don’t answer that.
william carr says
I wish his parents had called him Richard so that we could call him dick, which is what he is. i am sure the Queen is hanging on as long as she can so as to prevent him becoming king. Which does not say much for him as she knows him better than anyone
Emilie Green says
“‘t breaks my heart’ to see Palestinian suffering”
All self-inflicted in service to their Islam and their Allah.
mortimer says
‘Self-inflicted’ by the leaders of the Pallies who have all amassed great fortunes out of virtually unlimited aid monies that they syphon off at the top.
mortimer says
Here’s an exaggeration: “the historical Palestinian-British relations”. British diplomats made a series of horrible mistakes in managing the Mandate of Palestine. Firstly, they gave unequal treatment to Arabs over the Jews. The British actively promoted independent Jordan, but not independent Israel. Many times, British diplomats adopted measures to sabotage the eventual Jewish national home that the British had promised and then reneged on. The British never once tried to sabotage Jordan and never told Jordan not to invade Israel in order to steal land from it. The British never promoted an independent West Bank, but allowed Jordan to annex it and make a continuous part of Jordan.
It’s time for the PSYCHODRAMA created by the KGB to end. The West Bank is part of the original National Home that the UK designated for Jewish settlement.
ana says
Yes. The UK did a lousy job when they colonized the region and a worse job when they left.
mortimer says
Very good observation by Fitzgerald: a “two-state solution,” a meretricious phrase that assumes what must be proven – that “two states” are indeed a “solution.”
The British (actually Winston Churchill) implemented the two-state solution already in 1921 in Cairo.
The Emirate of Transjordan failed to satisfy the Arabs who wanted and still want a one-state solution which will be Jordan alone with no Israel anywhere to be found.
The one-state solution (Jordan only) is the only solution most Muslims will accept.
gary fouse says
It breaks my heart that thye let this boob out of Britain.
mortimer says
He’s on a meet-and-greet diplomatic mission for the British government of Boris Johnson which is stage-managing everything he does and says.
Westman says
He seems to fancy himself as another, “Lawrence of Arabia”.
gravenimage says
All too true, Westman.
OREN WYSOCKI says
To bad prince charles didn’t visit one of the thousands of Jewish victims of muslim supremacy, or the millions of Jews who live in fear of leaving their homes, or going into certain neighborhoods, or crossing certain cities, under the foolish delusion that you are safe from A people A few streets down from you. In G-d I trust.
PBH says
The two individuals in the foreground of the picture with Prince Charles are Muslim Brotherhood sheiks = Hamas
James Lincoln says
For starters, maybe Prince Charles should ask Mahmoud Abbas what he is doing with all of his money….
andrew mckendrick says
Prince Charles should maybe focus on his own country ,does his heart not break for all the little girls being raped by muslim rape gangs in Britain?
gravenimage says
Damn good question, Andrew.
ntesdorf says
Two articles about the Moronic Prince Charles in two days is over the top. It uses web-space for important Jihad News.
gravenimage says
Prince Charles is the heir apparent to the throne of England. For good or ill, the royal family still has a great deal of influence, and not just in Britain and the Commonwealth, but around the world. This is indeed an issue.
gravenimage says
Prince Charles in Bethlehem: “It breaks my heart” to see Palestinian suffering (Part 2)
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He may say he is “celebrating the contribution of Christian communities across the Holy Land and wider Middle East”, but he is ignoring the fact that due to Muslim savagery that that community has almost ceased to exist in the its very birthplace. What a tool.
Mike says
Many thanks for a well grounded history lesson for an idiot who has been lucky to be born as a prince.
warmac9999 says
Appeasing evil never ends well. Charles is no Churchill.
Peter WF says
Has he settled a few thousand muslims on one of his estates?
Sam says
A true descendant of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
jca reid says
It breaks my heart to see & hear this a**hole spouting off patronising platitudes about people who follow a Fascistic, Murderous, Vile, Desert Nazi Ideology. He does not speak for the MILLIONS of Britons who know the Truth about Islam & its followers!
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, jca!
Carol the 1st says
And Charles seems to relish conveying that he’s coming from some mystical level of sainthood as demonstrated by the example and forbearance of the BEST of brutalized Christians. It almost makes mere mortals feel a little “shoddy” should they contemplate any more worldly response to the never-ending evil of a jackass control system that parades itself as a “religion” while killing off non-contributors to their steamingly stinky ponzi scheme. Who do they think they’re fooling?
Annette Ryder says
Prince Charles, you big nothing burger fool! Palestinians do it to themselves then blame Jews and everyone else. You and your elitists are disgusting to me.
John Lloyd Scharf says
The Royal Family is quickly proving they HAVE NO PRINCES!
TomSJr says
PRINCE CHARLES:
Oh, thou fool!