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grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 06:37 AM Nov 2017

Prince Charles' Letter From 1986 Blamed "influx of foreign Jews" for Unrest in Middle East

A letter penned by Prince Charles in 1986 blamed the "influx of foreign Jews" for tension in the Middle East, and asked the U.S. president to stand up to the "Jewish lobby," reported the Daily Mail.

Prince Charles has come under fire for the letter, with some calling the usage of the phrase "Jewish lobby" anti-Semitic. Stephen Pollard, editor of the British Jewish Chronicle, wrote that the term has been used by anti-Semites for centuries and called the letter "jaw-droppingly shocking."

The letter's text reads, "I now appreciate that Arabs and Jews were all a Semitic people originally and it is the influx of foreign, European Jews (especially from Poland, they say) which has helped to cause great problems. I know there are so many complex issues, but how can there ever be an end to terrorism unless the causes are eliminated? Surely some U.S. president has to have the courage to stand up and take on the Jewish lobby in U.S.? I must be naive, I suppose!"

The letter, which surfaced in a public archive on Sunday, was written to Afrikaner explorer Laurens van der Post and discussed Prince Charles' understanding of the Middle East

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/1.822251



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Prince Charles' Letter From 1986 Blamed "influx of foreign Jews" for Unrest in Middle East (Original Post) grossproffit Nov 2017 OP
Wow!!!!!!! secondwind Nov 2017 #1
Sometimes he has all the subtleties Freddie Nov 2017 #2
This is very interesting but folks are gonna get lost in the narrative and not pay attention underthematrix Nov 2017 #3
Jews in Arab countries are and were considered dhimmis for more than 14 centuries. Mosby Nov 2017 #4
Is anyone surprised? I'm not. Mosby Nov 2017 #5
Charles is an upper-class twit MosheFeingold Nov 2017 #6

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
3. This is very interesting but folks are gonna get lost in the narrative and not pay attention
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 08:43 AM
Nov 2017

to the significance of the details.

I think it had to be over 30 years ago when 60 minutes dedicated almost the entire hour to the very recent history of conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East. The conflict was new, not old.

This is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_people_in_Israel

Mosby

(16,319 posts)
4. Jews in Arab countries are and were considered dhimmis for more than 14 centuries.
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 01:37 PM
Nov 2017

Nothing new about that bigotry.

The Jewish people have faced thousands of years of persecution in the middle east in part because their neighbors refuse to accept their indigenous status and concomitant right to live in peace in their ancestral homeland.


Mosby

(16,319 posts)
5. Is anyone surprised? I'm not.
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 02:37 PM
Nov 2017

Just look at the last two paras:

No member of the British royal family has ever come to Israel in an official capacity. Prince Charles visited last October to attend former President Shimon Peres' funeral, and took the opportunity to go to the Mount of Olives. There, in the Church of Mary Magdalene, he paid a secret visit to the grave of his paternal grandmother.

The burial site is in East Jerusalem, which Israel captured during the Six-Day War and later annexed, but Britain does not recognize it as part of the country. Charles' visit to the grave went unreported in the Israeli media, and neither his Facebook page nor his press team released a statement about it.


The british have never come to terms with their imperialism, in fact they continue to project their guilt onto others imo.



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