The long-standing United Nations position on the status of the Palestinian lands is that they are illegally occupied by israel. Decades of negotiations with israel have yielded no results, and the prospects of a sovereign Palestinian state have been looking increasingly dim.
Yair Netanyahu, the eldest son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has called for the expulsion of British diplomats from the country over the status of Palestinian territories.
The British Consulate in Jerusalem last week announced on Twitter that Prince Charles would pay a visit to the “occupied Palestinian territories” in January.
Yair Netanyahu replied to the tweet: “God willing you guys will be kicked out of Israel soon. Until then I'm thinking of visiting the occupied lands of Scotland or Wales, which do you recommend?”
“Northern Ireland is recognized as part of *Britain* by the entire world”, he wrote in a follow-up tweet. “All the British settlers stayed there. Nobody claim[s] they should be relocated. Nobody disputes Britain [sic] sovereignty there and claims it belong[s] to the Republic of Ireland”.
His rebuke has generated a mixed reaction, with some commenters hitting back. “Last time I was in Wales there were no military checkpoints, services weren't cut-off and air strikes were fairly non-existent”, one user wrote, referring to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, where Hamas and Islamic Jihad are…
