The Israeli government issued a demarche against the British Embassy after a spokesman for the UK’s government announced that his country finances anti-settlement activities in Israel. Britain finances pro-settlement activities, too—pro-Palestinian settlement that is, including illegal Palestinian construction in East Jerusalem.
This is not news. Everyone knows that Britain and the EU finance Arabs and Jewish ultra-leftists in Israel. But the Israeli government is concerned about its image rather than the facts, and only protested after the aid was publicly announced.
A similar attitude pervades Israel’s negotiations with the Palestinians. Ever since Oslo, Israeli negotiators have secretly offered the Arabs much more than they tell the Jewish public. While publicly refusing to make concessions on Jerusalem, Netanyahu’s government prepared a secret memorandum with James Jones on bringing multinational forces onto the Temple Mount—thus surrendering it to the UN.
