Israel’s ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, has warned that Israel cannot rely on the support of European leaders in the battle against the deligitimization and demonization of the Jewish state, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
He made the remark at a meeting organized by the Just Journalism group and the Henry Jackson Society at London's New West End Synagogue.
"When push comes to shove, no-one in Israel really thinks that Europe will come to its aid," he reportedly said.
Prosor lambasted politicians who felt they were taking a sufficiently principled stand by simply stating that Israel had "a right to exist."
If he had found it necessary to state that Britain has a right to exist, "people would wonder what I had been drinking?" he declared.
He said that those who professed Israel's right to defend its people, took every opportunity to criticize it over actions such as the war against missile attacks, or the building of the anti-terror wall.
Israel, he said, is facing a "new kind of warfare" which is aimed at attempting to cast it out of the family of nations. "Our adversaries are crossing the line every day. There is more pressure, more demonization."
He said that the international campaign in favour of a Palestinian right of return "would not result in a two-state solution but in the destruction of the state of Israel."