Reply #23: Netanyahu attended 2006 celebration of the bombing of Jerusalem Hotel [View All]

[Douglas Carpenter]

From The TimesJuly 20, 2006

British anger at terror celebration
The commemoration of Israeli bombings that killing 92 people has caused offence

link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article690085.ece

"The rightwingers, including Binyamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister, are commemorating the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters of British rule, that killed 92 people and helped to drive the British from Palestine.

They have erected a plaque outside the restored building, and are holding a two-day seminar with speeches and a tour of the hotel by one of the Jewish resistance fighters involved in the attack.

Simon McDonald, the British Ambassador in Tel Aviv, and John Jenkins, the Consul-General in Jerusalem, have written to the municipality, stating: “We do not think that it is right for an act of terrorism, which led to the loss of many lives, to be commemorated.” "

link:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article690085.ece

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