Queen Elizabeth attends a ceremony at Windsor Castle, in June 2021.Credit: Reuters
In her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II crisscrossed the globe, but purposely skipped Israel. In 1984, during a visit to Jordan, she found the settlements ‘depressing’ and the Air Force’s planes frightening
Written by Ofer Aderet. Originally published on Haaretz
In 1986, Margaret Thatcher became the first British leader to visit Israel. Journalist David Landau, later Haaretz editor-in-chief, dared to ask her when the queen would visit. “But I’m here,” the Iron Lady replied. In 2014, not long before he passed, Landau was awarded the OBE for his contributions to Israeli-British relations. He did not ask the queen directly why she refrained from visiting here.
“When there is sustainable peace,” was the answer stammered by official British representatives whenever they were asked why the Queen is boycotting the State of Israel. This, of course, didn’t stop the queen from visiting Arab countries. She did not reverse this boycott throughout her 70 years on the throne, despite being the best-traveled world leader, with over 120 countries visited and around a million miles traversed in her tours. “Is there another member state of the UN which the British royal family treats with such consistent and studied contempt?” Landau wondered.
Cognoscenti would explain that it is the British Foreign Service that decides such things, and that it is doing so out of supposed spite. This, among other reasons, as “revenge” for the violent Israeli resistance to the British mandate, and having established a state on its ruins. Others said that the British are afraid to antagonize the Arab world, and that is why the Queen won’t show her face here.
But had she truly wanted to, the Queen could have popped over for a visit. “The sad but inescapable conclusion, therefore, is that she herself is part of this nasty, petty British intrigue to deny Israel that rankling vestige of legitimation that is in their power to bestow or withhold – a royal visit.,” Landau wrote in Haaretz over a decade ago, in an article where he called upon the monarch to “bin these sour-smelling inhibitions and end this boycott.”
Some British royals visited Israel over the years, but Buckingham Palace always went out of its way to make it clear that the visit is neither royal, nor official. Thus it was in 1994, when Prince Phillip came to receive the Righteous Among the Nations award on behalf of his mother, who is buried in Jerusalem. In 1995 Charles, then Prince of Wales, came to attend Rabin’s funeral. A change came only in the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence, in 2018, when Prince William arrived for a visit, that was termed as official, even if it was meaningless. Two years later his father Charles, soon to be crowned king, visited here for the international Holocaust forum, held to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. The Queen, however, maintained her boycott.
Not all Israelis wanted such a visit, either way. “Elizabeth II is the daughter of George VI, the king on whose behalf Jewish freedom fighters were hanged in the Land of Israel; The king whose navy blocked the way of refugees to the Land of Israel, leading to their death. The hangman’s daughter is not welcome in Israel,” a commenter wrote on Haaretz’s website.
Others mentioned the dark episodes in her family’s past, mainly her uncle, Edward VIII, the family’s black sheep, whose list of sins also includes Nazi sympathies. In 2015, British tabloid The Sun published a family film from 1933 showing the seven-year-old Princess Lilybeth saluting in the Nazi fashion alongside her mother, sister, and uncle. The Palace expressed disappointment at the dissemination of the old footage, but declined to explain the background to it.
The Queen’s fans, on the other hand, are quick to point out in her “favor” that a Jewish mohel circumcised her son Charles, in the best tradition of the royal family, deriving from a claim to Davidic descent.
The closest she came to visiting here was in 1984, when she toured Jordan. The visit provided a few quotes seen as hostile to Israel. Among other things, it was reported that Her Highness was disturbed when Israeli jets passed overhead as she looked at the West Bank from across the river. “How frightening,” she muttered then. King Hussein’s wife, Queen Nour, replied: “It’s terrible.” Later on, upon being shown a map of the West Bank with the settlements marked on it, she said: “What a depressing map.”
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Why would she visit a territory stolen from her by Rothschild? Just to gain support from the US Zionists, to succeed in a war that was badically started by Rothschild? To later visit the land handed over to the Zionists by their bribed puppet Churchill? The Masonic fifedom of Israel is cursed, it is no nation state, but in itself, a state of occupation and mass genocide.
The Queen probably saw the Zionists (not jews) as enemies and israel belong to them, the Zionists.
Traitor Thatcher whose cabinet was chocked with kiddy fiddlers & who invited BBC child rapist Jimmy Saville (also honoured by Israel) around for every Christmas at no 10 stayed at The King David Hotel scene of a zionist terrorist atrocity thus insulting the memory of all of the British military & police murdered by zionist terrorists.
lest we forget PALESTINE 1945-1948 – British Deaths – Search Results
ADAMS, Leonard Charles Rank: Warrant Officer 2nd Class (Company Sergeant Major) Service No: 2366526 Regiment: Royal Corps of Signals Date of death: 22 July 1946 Age at death: 29 Died how:
Members of the Irgun, dressed as Arabs, set off a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which had been the base for the British Secretariat, the military command and a branch of the Criminal Investigation Division (police). Ninety-one people were killed, most of them staff of the secretariat and the hotel: 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 other. Around 45 people were injured.
What’s the point of this BS article from Israeli Haaretz, saying how UK Royal family (owned by Jews) is against Israel???
To sow confusion and discord.
4000 UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS DEAD! There were 1000 dead soldiers per day from September 6 to 10, 2022! ZELENSKY will be BEHEADED by the Ukrainian army!
The map tells the different story.
It will change soon, just you wait
No one should be going to Pissrael.
Fuk off, who forcefully gave Palestine to Zionists who lived in the West again? Which country occupied Palestine and forcefully killed/remove them?
Most of these Zionists were poor ugly stealing pigs from around the world and would move to Palestine they were in a shithole in the first place. These Zionists aren’t even Jewish – look how many gays they have now and that is growing. So much for being a satanic state or sorry I meant a “holy Jewish state”.
Word “JEWS” was invented in 18th century, later used for falasification of older books.
So word “JEWS” is used for real Iewes, real Semites (Sephardim) so also for KHAZARS (Fake Semites).
So no one is “Fake Jew”, they are only Fake Semites (Khazars).
Sephardim and Palestinians are Semites and they have the same DNA.
Khazars have Turkic, Kurdish, Mongolian, Slavic DNA
Fake Jews are Talmudic Babylonian Satanist blood drinkers and baby killers parading as Jews. Your argument is baseless hasbara. Christians are also ‘real Jews’ by your definition, 1st and 2nd testament written by Jews, our Messiah is a Jew, but fucktards still have the bloody nerve to call us ‘antisemite white supremacists’ when we ain’t ‘white’, thats a racist Marxist bullshit troupe, and we can’t be antisemites when we worship one as our Messiah. And there is no such thing as ‘Jewish blood’ …it’s human blood, your faith doesn’t magically transform you into a ‘race’, unless you’re completely delusional and full of “trust the science” bullshit.
The problem you have is that its the Israeli Zionists that are going round the UK labelling anybody who criticises Israel as “anti-semetic ” -at this moment any UK schoolchild who wears anything Palestinian or speaks out about the Zionist atrocities in Palestine is reprimanded yet Zionist ideology is allowed .
Boycotting Israel is condemned -dont buy from Tesco for example .
if you feel like having sex with a website ( SF ) you should keep it to yourself.
Unbelievable, impudent story of self-deluded Khazars.
Until whole world understand that Khazars have no right to Palestine land, no right to murder real Semitic people (Palestinians), no right to conduct ethnic cleansing for 74 years, so there will no justice, no peace. Only brutal Khazarian Apartheid II regime.
What fucking freedom fighters this pigshit Jew writes about? Jew ate terrorist…Sunday to Sunday….children of Lucifer
I can’t blame the Queen for not wanting to visit Israel. Who in their right mind would visit a sad country full of child murderers? Oh Trump did. Well that says a lot about his character then or was he blackmailed by MOSSAD?😂
she was never fond of the blackmail her family (sons) received. that sort of explains the resentment for that state.