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    Flashback: Israel President: 'England Is Anti-Semitic'

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor...01008115674455

    Israel's President has provoked an angry British backlash after accusing the English of being anti-semitic.

    Israeli President Shimon Peres

    Shimon Peres said England was 'deeply pro-Arab' and 'anti-Israeli'

    In an interview with the Jewish website Tablet, Shimon Peres said the country has become pro-Arab and anti-Israeli.

    "In England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment," the 87-year-old said.

    "They abstained in the [pro-Zionist] 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They had a defence treaty with Jordan, they always worked against us."

    "They think the Palestinians are the underdog... Even though this is irrational."

    He added: "There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary."

    Mr Peres, who was awarded an honorary knighthood by the Queen in 2008, said the UK had stood by as Israel had faced violence from Hamas.

    "For eight years they fired and we refrained from retaliating. When they fired at us, the British didn't say a word."

    There are several million Muslim voters, and for many members of parliament, that’s the difference between getting elected and not getting elected.

    Shimon Peres in his interview with Tablet

    He also accused British MPs of pandering to Muslim voters in order to retain their seats in Parliament.

    "There are several million Muslim voters, and for many members of parliament, that’s the difference between getting elected and not getting elected," he said.

    His comments have angered both Jews and non-Jews in Britain.

    James Clappison, the Conservative MP for Hertsmere and vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, said Mr Peres had got it "wrong".

    In an interview with the Telegraph, he said: "There are pro- and anti-Israel views in all European countries. Things are certainly no worse, as far as Israel is concerned, in this country than other European countries."

    David Cameron and Recep Tayyip Erdogan

    David Cameron last week accused Israel of turning Gaza into a 'prison camp'

    Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, minister of Maidenhead synagogue, also told the newspaper: "It is a sweeping statement that is far too one-sided... The tolerance and pluralism here make Britain one of the best countries in the world in which to live."

    The controversy follows remarks made by Prime Minister David Cameron who accused Israel of turning Gaza into a prison camp.

    During a trip to Turkey last week, Mr Cameron said: "The situation in Gaza has to change. Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp."


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    shimon peres, shame on you, where were you when the irgun gang hung two british soldiers for a supposedly illegal entry into the hebrew homeland in 1947, a league of nations protectoret until your illegal seizure of the land called palistine in 1948,where were you when bagins terrerist blow-up the king david hotel killing 90 odd people and injuring many more befor 1948,shame on you,you and kind belong to an evil section of mankind, who don,t respect any others peoples borders, your terrerist gangs taught the i.r.a. how to bomb and kill by example, shame on you peres, lest we brits forget,marvyn paice and chifford martin, whose bodies were left booby trapped hanging in an biblical olive grove and the rest who died by your gangs blood staind hands,
    do seriously wonder why my genaration aren,t for your land seizures
    at the expence of the indigenous peoples. shame on you shimon peres. saxon.???.
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    As an English citizen, I am a libertarian towards both states. I don't care about either country, it does not concern England's national security, well not phyisically it doesn't. But we do need crude oil from the Middle eastern region in general and anywhere else that we can buy it from.

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    So it's ok to hate Muslims, but not Jews? That $#@! is laced with such hypocritical nonsense.

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    The israeli president doesn't have much of a mandate to say anything. But either way, he can say what he wants. Before he says England is anti semetic, he seems to recognise it as a country by saying so. When it isn't much of one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
    So it's ok to hate Muslims, but not Jews? That $#@! is laced with such hypocritical nonsense.
    Why is there a need to hate anybody?

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    He is refering to the president's remarks on how the British don't seem to care about Israel.

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    I hope they keep saying this at the same time stepping up the frequency of it's use. Soon it will have lost all meaning because they will have deemed everybody as anti-semitic.
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