CEPR Prince William to visit Israel and Pal. Terr.

[hopecounts]

First official royal visit to the area.

[lilibet]

I'm very curious how this will go over. I admittedly don't know the British view on this topic though.

[hopecounts]

They aren’t sending Charles who is slightly problematic (supports 2 Jewish charities/groups and no Muslim organizations) so their intentions are clearly to be as unbiased as possible now whether that is how it plays out who knows.

[mbcdefg]

It'll be interesting to see how this is handled.

[mrsukyankee]

Mar 1, 2018 10:17:21 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

It'll be interesting to see how this is handled.

Me too.

[amberlyrose]

Interesting. Will probably be less "show-y" than most overseas visits.

[rjamz]

Hmmm. I’m definitely interested to see how this goes

[hopecounts]

Given the timing this seems to be in response to Trump’s moving the US Embassy.

I expect a lot of good will/humanitarian/meet the people type of thing more than anything overtly political.
1) that tends to be where William does best and they chose him for a reason

2) Tying the future Monarch to any position on Israel-Palestine directly or indirectly would be a massive headache that I don’t think QEII or PM May would agree to.

Of course that doesn’t mean they can’t totally screw it up through idiocy (KP PR is horrible) but I suspect it will be a fairly straight forward visit.

We’ll know more once the official tour schedule is released though.

[dorothyinAus]

I wonder if one of the stops will be his great grandmother's grave?

[msmerymac]

Mar 1, 2018 10:03:22 GMT -5 lilibet said:

I'm very curious how this will go over. I admittedly don't know the British view on this topic though.

Not as fiercely pro-Israel as the US can be, but the US has a lot of religious reasons for that which don’t really exist in the UK.

[msmerymac]

Mar 1, 2018 15:44:02 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

I wonder if one of the stops will be his great grandmother's grave?

Intriguing thought. Since he never met her, I don’t think it would be publicized. Hell, I don’t even know if Philip would care if he went. But from a humanitarian standpoint I wouldn’t be surprised if he visited Yad Vashem.