{"id":61002,"date":"2012-11-27T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=61002"},"modified":"2012-11-28T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:06:54","slug":"britain-supports-palestinian-bid-for-a-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=61002","title":{"rendered":"Britain Supports Palestinian Bid for a State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Nov 27, 2012<\/h1>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/british-israeli-lobby2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61003\" title=\"british israeli lobby2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/british-israeli-lobby2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/british-israeli-lobby2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/british-israeli-lobby2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/nov\/27\/uk-ready-to-back-palestine-statehood\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Guardian reported today<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Britain is prepared to back a key vote recognising Palestinian statehood at the UN but only if Mahmoud Abbas pledges not to pursue Israel for war crimes and to resume peace talks.<\/h5>\n<h5><em>\u201cOn Monday night, the government signalled it would change track and vote yes if the Palestinians modified their application. Whitehall officials said the Palestinians were now being asked to refrain from applying for membership of the International Criminal Court or the International Court of Justice, which could both be used to pursue war crimes charges or other legal claims against Israel.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>I wonder why the British government is so keen to save Israeli war criminals? Could it be because 80% of the Conservative MPs are Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI)? I\u2019d also like to know what is it that led the British Government to change its position on the Palestinian bid for statehood. Is it because our Tory politicians are trying to squeeze more money from their paymasters? After all, if Whitehall\u2019s decision is driven by any ethical and humanist concerns, why then are they trying to save Israeli mass-murderers from being\u00a0<em>schlepped\u00a0<\/em>to the International Court of Justice where they belong.<\/h5>\n<h5>Another possible explanation for the British turnaround is that Israel and its lobby is actually interested in world support of the Palestinian bid for a State. Such a bid, would accomplish the Zionist project by removing once and for all the demographic threat to the Jews-only state posed by millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. A \u2018sovereign Palestine\u2019 would \u2018liberate\u2019 Israel from the burdens of being an occupier.<\/h5>\n<h5>I suppose that, following the last Israeli defeat in Gaza, some brain in Whitehall must have cottoned on to the fact that the Jewish State belongs to the past \u2013 and doesn\u2019t have much of a future. They\u2019ve\u00a0probably realised that Britain had better seek some new allies in the Arab world. Still, putting all their money on Abbas might just one more poorly calculated British political decision.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/britain-supports-un-palestinian-bid-for-a-state.html\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But as Gilad Atzmon explains, this support comes with certain preconditions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61054,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61002\/revisions\/61054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}