Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.
Last week, during British Prime Minister David Cameron’s first visit to Israel as prime minister, he assured Israelis of his solidarity with the Jewish nation.
“With me, you have a British Prime Minister whose belief in Israel is unbreakable and whose commitment to Israel’s security will always be rock solid.
“I will always stand up for the right of Israel to defend its citizens, a right enshrined in international law, in natural justice and fundamental morality, and in decades of common endeavor between Israel and her allies,” he told the Israeli Knesset (parliament).
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes UK Prime Minister David Cameron to the Israeli Parliament.
Cameron also encouraged Israelis to come to a two-state agreement with the Palestinians.
Presenting the two-state solution as the answer to the country’s problems, he said that he encouraged Israelis to imagine “what this land would be like if a two-state solution was actually achieved.”
“Imagine Israel—like any other democratic nation—finally treated fairly and normally by all,” he said.
Cameron said that peace would bring both security as well as “extraordinary” economic benefits both for Palestinians and Israelis, enabling them to work together and to create international trade and business links.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron visit the Israeli technology exhibition in Har Hotzvim, a high-tech industrial park in northern Jerusalem.
Treading very gently on the issue of peace talks, he mentioned his support for kosher meat production (which has become a political issue in the UK for animal rights activists), his opposition to the boycotting of Israeli goods, and his concerns regarding Iran.
“I share your deep skepticism and great concern about Iran,” he told the Knesset. “I am not starry-eyed about the new regime. A nuclear armed Iran is a threat to the whole world—not just to Israel and with Israel and all our allies, Britain will ensure that it is never allowed to happen.”
Cameron also praised Israel’s scientific, academic and hi-tech contributions, saying that UK trade with Israel has doubled in a decade.
“Israel’s technology is protecting British and NATO troops in Afghanistan,” he said. “It is providing Britain’s National Health Service with one in six of its prescription medicines through Teva. Together British and Israeli technical expertise can achieve so much more.”
