The British Foreign Office Uses a Royal Visit to Israel to Stir Ill Will
What “occupied Palestinian territory”?
June 15, 2018
The British Foreign Office Uses a Royal Visit to Israel to Stir Ill Will
What “occupied Palestinian territory”?
On June 25, Prince William will arrive in Israel for the first-ever official visit to the country by a member of the House of Windsor, during which he will pay his respects at the grave of his great-grandmother, who is buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. The official itinerary, released by the UK’s notoriously anti-Israel Foreign Office, locates this particular stop in “Occupied Palestinian territories.” Asked about that phrase by an Israeli journalist, a Foreign Office spokesperson clarified that “east Jerusalem is not Israeli territory.” Elliott Abrams comments:
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