Why the ghosts of Britain’s past will loom over Prince William’s visit to Israel

The Duke of Cambridge is making the first official moncler outlet royal visit to Israel since it was founded and, cheap moncler coats in the process, entering a diplomatic mine field15:37, 25 JUN 2018Updated09:17, 26 JUN 2018Prince William arrives in Jordan on the first day of his Middle East tour (Image: Daily Mirror) moncler outlet uk Prince Charles has been to Israel for the funerals of the former moncler sale prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and the late president cheap moncler outlet Shimon Peres but until this week the Palace and the Foreign Office had rejected multiple invitations by the Israeli Government for an official trip.Prince William’s moncler sale outlet itinerary has been meticulously planned to avoid, as far as possible, any diplomatic controversy.His five day moncler outlet online tour of the Middle East began in Jordan and will end in Palestine to emphasis the visit is politically neutral.Yet William cannot escape either Britain’s past or Israel’s troubled history since its foundation.Tonight he will stay in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem where in 1946 Zionist insurgents fighting for independence killed dozens of British soldiers charged with maintaining peace in the protectorate.When the UK agreed to hand over control of the region to the United Nations two moncler outlet store years’ later there was resentment that we were more interested in protecting moncler factory outlet our interests in neighbouring Arab countries than helping the founding of Israel.The sensitivities are such that some Israelis have taken offence that the cheap moncler official schedule for the Prince’s itinerary refers to a visit to the Old City of https://www.mymoncleroutlet.com Jerusalem in the “occupied Palestinian Territories.”The Occupied Territories refer to the West Bank, including Moncler Outlet East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip annexed by Israel in 1967.Politics news straight to your inboxIsraeli officials have reportedly remonstrated with their British counterparts about the reference to the bitterly contested piece of land.The Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Ze’ev Elkin said: “It is unfortunate that Britain chose to politicize the state visit.”United Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years and no distortion on the pages of the trip’s itinerary can change that fact.”I expect the prince’s staff, who have stated all along that the trip will be apolitical, to reconsider and fix the distortion.”.

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