Israel lost the British elite after Gaza onslaught, UK ambassador says

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/british-onslaught-ambassador

Earlier this week we picked up Frank Luntz’s polling data that Zionism has become a negative word for American elites. Well the process is further advanced in Britain. The JC.com, a British Jewish publication, reports the following statements from an appearance by Matthew Gould, Britain’s ambassador to Israel:

N]o ambassador could have softened the impact of pictures of dead Palestinian children in Gaza which appeared daily on the news during the summer, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the conflict, [Gould] argued.

“There is no amount of hasbarah or public diplomacy that is going to convince the vast majority of the British public that settlement announcements are a good thing,” [Gould] declared.

“There is no amount of hasbarah… which is going to convince the British public that Israel is the underdog in this conflict.”

No amount of hasbara can wash the blood off of Israel's hands, and the racists that use hasbara to vilify the Palestinian people discredit themselves with every post.

[King_David]

1. Strange commentary at the bottom of the post

Because "racism" is usually what attracts people to become militantly involved in this conflict on either side of this issue .

Especially true for those people not involved ie: people who are either neither Jewish , Muslim , Israeli or Palestinian.

Witness the extremist right wingers such as David Duke who are very obsessed and others especially from Europe and Ireland who have a very long history of antiSemitism and recently to a lesser extent Islamaphobia.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. Ah yes, when some want to attempt to discredit an article they

bring up David Duke.

Poor them.

[King_David]

3. David Duke

Greta Berlin , Gilan Atzmon, Alex Kane ,ISM

They all integral part of the western armchair anti Israel strategy and architects.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. Have fun with your phantoms...

[King_David]

12. Okay

Whatever that means...

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. Okay.

You know what it means.




And as always, thanks for the kick.

[oberliner]

4. Oh no - not the British elite!

Where would the world be without them?

[King_David]

5. Because they soooo progressive ?

I seen that movie "My Fair Lady"

[oberliner]

6. The British Elite and their double-dealing during the Mandate period was shameful

Though not as bad as their shenanigans in other parts of the world such as India.

[shaayecanaan]

9. You have a strange sense of perspective

the mandatory period is regarded with nostalgia by most Arabs and not a few Jews:-

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/palestine-how-bad-and-good-was-british-rule/

[oberliner]

11. All hail the British for their benevolent colonial empire!

Enjoy the nostalgia.

[shaayecanaan]

15. More benevolent than some (nt)

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. Probably without a Balfour letter and plenty of excuses.

[shaayecanaan]

10. Where would Israel have been without them...

or more to the point, would there have been an Israel without them?

[King_David]

14. American Rich Kids Bought Their Way Into the British Elite

The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to titled, but cash-strapped, British nobles


Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-american-rich-kids-bought-their-way-into-the-british-elite-4252/#gq3vrGDitA8kjKKA.99
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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

16. LOL

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487799#post6

[King_David]

17. Checked out your link,

Relevance ?

Okay never mind I'm moving on.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

18. Please, move on.

[4now]

19. It is hard to justify the mass murder of hundreds of innocent Palestinian children.

At the hands of the IDF.

Drip, drip, drip... Soon it will be a flood.



Palestinian Child In Crosshairs of Israeli Sniper.