UK’s Liz Truss: ‘I’m a huge Zionist and huge supporter of Israel’
London (QNN)- Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Sunday she is a “huge Zionist and huge supporter of Israel”,” pledging once again she would “take the UK-Israel relationship from strength to strength”.
Speaking at Sunday evening’s Conservative Friends of Israel event in Birmingham, Truss told the audience that she is a “huge Zionist and huge supporter of Israel” and pledged that she would “take the UK-Israel relationship from strength to strength”.
Addressing the reception, Truss echoed her previous comments on barring the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons, along with her support for the controversial Westminster Holocaust Memorial project.
She added, “In this world – where we are facing threats from authoritarian regimes who don’t believe in freedom and democracy – two free democracies, the UK and Israel, need to stand shoulder to shoulder and we will be even closer in the future.”
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The Prime Minister’s remarks come after a few days of her announcement that she is weighing the relocation of Britain’s Israel embassy in Tel Aviv to the occupied city of Jerusalem – a decision that would follow former US President Donald Trump’s provocative move.
Truss told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid of the move during a meeting at the United Nations summit in New York City on September 21.
An unnamed UK government spokeswoman said Truss informed Lapid “about her review of the current location of the British Embassy in Israel,” according to news reports.
Two months ago, during her campaign for the leadership of the British Conservative Party, Truss told the Conservative Friends of Israel that she would review the UK’s decision to remain in Tel Aviv if she became the British leader.
“I understand the importance and sensitivity of the location of the British Embassy in Israel. I’ve had many conversations with my good friend Prime Minister Yair Lapid on this topic,” she said.
Israel’s Ambassador to London, Tzipi Hotovel, also attended the Sunday’s event, where she suggested that a “review” of the British embassy’s location ought to be pursued.
She told the packed event: ”Nothing can be more significant to show the friendship between Israel and the UK than this step.”
”There is just one capital to the UK, and that is London. There is just one capital to Israel, Jerusalem,” she continued.
“For the last two thousand years, it’s been Jerusalem, always our spiritual home. We can’t ignore the historic truth,” Hotovel claimed.
She claimed that the US decision to relocate its embassy to occupied Jerusalem “promoted peace”.
