Will Fair Britannia Be Rescued From Wicked Baron’s Tower?

The pantomime season will soon be upon us and the British government can always be relied on for amusement. This year a Foolish Fairy in the Foreign Office plans to move the British embassy in Tel Aviv from a decent spot on the seafront to a brooding tower block owned by Africa-Israel Investments and occupied mostly by Israeli government departments.

The British Foreign Office is evidently so in love with the Israeli regime that it wants to 'shack up’, and never mind the gossip.

Here in London the same Fairy is making the Foreign Office’s magnificent Locarno Suite available to the Zionist Federation for "a Champagne Reception and Commemorative Lecture at the Foreign Office in honour of the 91st anniversary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917"

.What sane person would dream of commemorating an individual who wrote, in all seriousness, "In Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country. The four powers are committed to Zionism and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now occupy that land"?

The sheer arrogance of Balfour’s Declaration created a bitter rift between East and West which, 91 years later, is getting worse not better. Why is the Foreign Office, of all people, involved in perpetuating this stupidity?

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