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Prince Philip: We were jealous of Jews
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Published: 06.03.06, 19:42
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31. The English royals..., No. 18
Dany ,   Canada   (03.07.06)
& Alla is not with you for almost 60 years; You Arabs/Palestinians/Falahs live in A 1001 Nights Stories; Keep drfeaming for another 60 years, another 60, etc. You could have been SETTLED within your brothers during ALL this time, but not; Your society was/is/will be backward; Look what we have done during 57 years, NOT by DREAMING, that's for sure !!!
32. BRITS AND PALESTINE
GEORGE SAMI   (03.07.06)
DON`T BLAME AND DON`T CRY , THEY APOLOGIZE BY GIVING YOU PALESTINE, TO ESTABLISH STATE TO THE JUDAISM FOLLOWERS , SUPPOSE YOU HAVE TO THANK THEM VERY MUCH , AND CAN BLAME THEM MORE THAN THAT, BECAUSE THEY GAVE THE ARABS LAND, AND THE ARABS WILL NEVER FORGIVE OR FORGET
33. #1 Linda
Leo ,   Australia   (03.07.06)
Allow me to rephrase - We WONT forgive, we WONT forget. The destruction & annihialtion of European Jewry is unforgivable - especially when those who participated and collaborated in the crimes continue to aid and abette Israel's enemies. Only someone who is either naive or a masochist could 'forgive.' I'm afraid, you speak for yourself.
34. Gabby Goldwasser # 24
Pan Dora ,   Mt. Olympus   (03.07.06)
" King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. " Tell that one to the Jebusites! Oh...when you take your leap off the Alps, bring a history book to read on the way down.
35. Prince Phillip
Shalom ,   Israel   (03.07.06)
As a religious Jew living in Israel, I think it's interesting that almost every respondent took issue with the story, vis-a-vis the Royal family today. Personally, I think that it took a lot of courage for the Prince to speak and in no way reflects his opinions today. He may be no saint, but there's no need to demonise him.
36. So was this all hail to the king, or Heil Hitler?
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (03.07.06)
Britain is coming to grips with all the Jews that it locked up on the Island of Cypress? Now I know why they did it. Now I know why Mookoe hated the British so much for locking him up like a criminal too. Those Jews were so scary---we had to do something about them. Thanks a lot for giving the first push into the ovens. Not that the United States fares any better, turning ships around full of Jews.
37. JEALOUS?
ALAN ,   USA   (03.07.06)
AH, NOW I DONT FEEL SO BADLY ABOUT THE BOMBING OF THE KING DAVID HOTEL. SOMEHOW THEY MAYBE JEALOUS OF THE AMERICANS WHO ALSO FOUGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM AGAINST THE BRITS. AND FOOLISHLY SO, SO MANY AMERICANS ADMIRE THE HIGH FALUTING LIFE OF THE BRIT ROYALTY.
38. To #24: Now you prove you know nothing!
Palestine ,   Palestinian   (03.07.06)
First, Kind David did not build Jerusalem. It was built by the Arab Canaanite long before. In specific the Jebusites! Second. Canaanites are from the Arabian Peninsula. If you do not know that then shut up! http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556449/Arabian_Peninsula.html Third: Jews came as a population from Egypt. They were ordered to enter the Holy Land at some time. And I understand that God did also put them down and forbid this land on them again. But anyway, they came from Egypt only to find the land already inhabited by the Canaanites who came from the Arabian Peninsula and by the Philistines who arrived at the same time with the Israelites from Greece and its Islands. Fourth: Arabian tribes have been living in Palestine before Abraham arrived to it. Abraham himself bought his house from a Canaanite. Fifth: Many Palestinians Lebanese and Syrians will tell you that their origin is Canaanite Phoneician. Sixth: The Arabs who came in the seventh century, are in fact Ishmaelite Arabs, not related to Canaanites. These are the son of Ishmael son of Abraham. Seventh: Arabs after Islam had this city under their soverngity for more than 1400 years. Only lost it to your fellow Crusaders. Eight: We were part and allied with other greater powers that share our interest like the Ottoman state. And we are not interested in being a part or associated with a zioinist entity called Israel.
39. Fake History
Meira ,   Israel   (03.07.06)
Gabrielle of Switzerland has set it out calmly and clearly, but I dont think many people are listening to this non-PC fact list!
40. Royality is a load of rubbish
Micha ,   Jerusalem   (03.07.06)
Royalty should be done away with. These ridiculous people should be made to work for a living just like every one else. However, if the stupid Brits want to hang on to their royal family, then I guess that is their choice. However, as an Australian, I what to dump them. We don’t need them in Australia.
41. to # 38
jason white ,   afula,israel   (03.07.06)
Yeah ,you know your ancient history. Most of you do not know your neighbors in the same village today,but you know that you are descended from cananites or whatever. You also know that the arabs that came here in the seventh century were "ísmaelite arabs". How did you know?Did they leave you a note? We do not want you interested in being part of our ZIONIST ISRAEL! Finally you seem to have something against what is written in the Bible. If G-d told the Israelites to live here and that this was the land he was giving them and their descendants,then you are against Him!You HEATHEN!
42. The trains ran on time...
John ,   Jerusalem   (03.07.06)
...right to the death camps. Thanks Brits.
43. I AM JEALOUS OF THE JEWS
Shwarma the Cat ,   Tel Aviv   (03.07.06)
They know how to read and write (well, most of them, not Ynet reporters); how to open tuna cans, how to turn door handles, and they make the cutest snoring sounds when they sleep!
44. anglican boycott of israel makes sense
Moshe ,   Beit Shemesh   (03.07.06)
english elite anti-semites who sympathize with ANY jew-killing nazis - germancs, islamo-facists, etc etc etc
45. Phil the Greek
ExpatEgghead ,   Haifa, Israel   (03.07.06)
'coronated ' ? Something new on me. 'Crowned ' might be better.
46. Prince Philip Jealous of the Jews
leah amdur ,   Jerusalem Israel   (03.07.06)
No 23 you forgot to say she was also the Queen of South Africa
47. Prince Philip's mother was more enlightened
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (03.07.06)
Prince Philip’s revelations of his families 'inhibitions about Jews' is not surprising as anti-Jewish sentiments in Britain have blighted the realm for decades. Good examples are the Pogroms in York and the expulsion of Jews under the reign of Queen Anne, the refusal to allow Lord Rothschild to take his seat in Parliament because he would not take the oath on the “Christian Bible” and uncover his head at the time when his close friend, Disraeli, was Prime Minister, the British attitude towards Jewish Immigration to Palestine and their internment of Jews in Concentration Camps, its Pro-Arab stance and so on, culminating in Prince Harry’s wearing a Nazi uniform. However, let us not forget that The Prince Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, later known as Princes Andrew of Greece, was a member of that esteemed order “Righteous among the Nations". I quote from the Wikipedia: “On 31 October 1994, Princess Andrew's two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Georg of Hanover, went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem to witness a ceremony honoring her as "Righteous among the Nations" for having hidden the Cohen family in her flat in Athens during the Second World War.” A small deed, however, a very significant one for the Cohen’s of Athens.
48. #18 palestinian
Linda   (03.07.06)
Especially in 1929 there was a welcome committee right? Jews at the time before Islam were already good in business and trading. You were jealous then and still are!
49. Prince Philip Jealous of the Jews
leah amdur ,   Jerusalem Israel   (03.07.06)
The G-d of Israel has made them look ridiculous, He will wipe them out just as He did to the Kennedy clan. Jo Kennedy snr. was the one who blocked the rescue of the Jews from the camps.
50. #33
Linda   (03.07.06)
I agree with you, but as a Jew I was taught that I must forgive, but not forget. I am trying hard ;)
51. Pan Dora: Grow up little girl and learn history
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (03.07.06)
There is no such name as Gabby .. where di you find that one ? You are just a little jealous girl - the kind we get regularly on Radio shows when they call in - real winners indeed. But then again - you think it is being clever - clever isn't being intelligent Nationhood and Jerusalem - Israel became a nation in the 14th century B.C.E. Two thousand years before the rise of Islam. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. Now here are facts: Palestine has never existed . . . as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the landmass. But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today . . . No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough. It has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there. The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". The Philistines were mediterranean people originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman "Palastina"; which is derived from the Peleshet, (root Pelesh) which was a general term meaning "dividers", "penetrators" or "invaders". The use of the term "Palestinian" for an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation which has no basis in fact - and had never had any international or academic credibility before 1967.
52. Duke of Edinburgh’s Mother Honored by Yad Vashem in 1994
Anthony David Marks ,   Israel   (03.07.06)
Duke of Edinburgh’s Mother Honored by Yad Vashem in 1994 During World War II, most of the Greek royal family remained in exile in South Africa. However, the war found Princess Andrew in the tragic situation of having four daughters married to German princes and a son in the Royal Navy. She and her sister-in-law, Princess Nicholas of Greece (1882-1947) (the mother of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent), lived in Athens for the duration of the war. She worked for the Swedish and Swiss Red Cross organizations and helped organize soup kitchens. After the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in September 1943, the German Army occupied Athens, where the majority of Greek Jews had sought refuge. During this period, Princess Andrew hid Rachel Cohen and her five children, who sought to evade the Gestapo and deportation to the death camps. On 31 October 1994, Princess Andrew's two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Georg of Hanover, went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem to witness a ceremony honoring her as "Righteous among the Nations" for having hidden the Cohen family in her flat in Athens during the Second World War. This is what Prince Phillip wrote in the Visitor’s Book when he went to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial in 1994 when his late mother was honored as a “Righteous Among the Nations. Prince Philip United Kingdom 30/10/94 “God brings everything we do to judgment “(Ecc 12) http://www1 .yadvashem.org/about_yad/jubilee/visitors_book_print.html http://www.search.com/reference/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg
53. PanDora: Anti-Semitism in Greece: Embedded in Society
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (03.07.06)
http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-23.htm
54. #18
Jane   (03.07.06)
It is YOU who have fooled people into thinking that Israel (read Jews) is the problem. It's not working any more. Your election of Hamas finally revealed your agenda to everyone who tried to excuse and apologize for you. They finally found out what we have already known. And PLEASE don't give me the crap about the Jews having had it so great in Arab countries. They didn't.
55. #23 The Queen
Philip Golan ,   Natanya   (03.07.06)
Many Australians, including myself, await shoving the royal family off and becoming a Republic.
56. #38
Jane   (03.07.06)
You are living in a time warp and your historical grasp is WAY OFF. I do agree with you on one thing, however, I also dream of the day when we have nothing whatsoever to do with you and your people.
57. RE: 14
Thomas ,   New York USA   (03.07.06)
A survivor of the Holocaust living in London "forgave" Prince Harry and said that the incident might actually be good for young people...why don't you read the newspapers before you make such statements? Who cares whether you or anyone else believes HRH...you're saying he should NOT have apologized?
58. 15: State Visits of Royal Family
Thomas ,   New York USA   (03.07.06)
I have forwarded your interesting e-mail to Buckingham Palace. If you think they are bastards, why would you want them in your country anyway?? The Queen has made (till now, she's not making any further overseas visits) does what the UK Foreign Office tells her. She was quoted as saying that the two countries she had always wanted to visit (but was not allowed to) were Israel and Ireland. She has refused to visit Greece because of how they treated her cousin the King. What "murky background"?? what twaddle.
59. Fake Pali: It is obvious you are brainwashed
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (03.07.06)
keep on being brainwashed, since it is so obvious that you cannot think clear ever
60. Number 57
Eve ,   Israel   (03.07.06)
Sir, I am sorry for 9-11 I see you live in New York. Had I known about 9-11 before it happened and done nothing to stop it would you so easily accept my apology. Had I dined with the murderers and befriended them , married them into my family, would it truly be so easy to say NO PROBLEM thank you for your apology. Thomas we live in a real world where unfair things and dreadful things happen. An apology many years after the fact justs inflames memories. Visit Yad Vashem and see if you could really accept this mans apology
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