Did the "Five Eyes Alliance" fall apart? After Australia, a second country appeared that "upset" Israel.
On November 3, local time, a spokesman for the British Prime Minister's Office publicly stated that London had abandoned its plan to move the British Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
This means that the United Kingdom has become the second "Five Eyes" country after Australia to abandon the idea.
Then, on October 18, the Australian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Australia would reverse the decision of the previous government, the Morrison government, to recognize West Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 2018.
Since West Jerusalem is not recognized as Israel's capital, Australia naturally does not need to move its embassy to Israel. The Australian side believes that the final status of Israel's capital should not be determined until peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian people are completed.
By the same token, Britain apparently does not consider Jerusalem to be the capital of a state of Israel, at least maintaining its former position that Jerusalem should be the common capital of Israel and Palestine.
In fact, long before the current British Prime Minister Sunak came to power, there was already a fierce debate in London.
When former Prime Minister Truss was in office, he ordered the government to evaluate whether Britain should follow the Trump administration's lead and move its embassy from Tel Aviv.
Britain's diplomatic system reacted so strongly that former Foreign Secretary Alan Duncan publicly warned that moving the embassy would be a "reckless and unprincipled" decision.
But before the matter could be discussed, Truss was forced to resign, and the most "short-lived" prime minister in British history left this big problem to the "baton" Sunak.
Sunak was also interesting, doing the same thing as Truss in his campaign for Conservative leadership — openly promising his support for moving the embassy to Jerusalem at an event organized by the Friends of Israel's Conservative Party (CFI).
At the time, Sunak categorically stated that Jerusalem was "the undisputed capital of history."
Nowadays, it seems that everything is just a "lie" of politicians, who made a bunch of empty promises before taking office, and after coming to power, they were forced by practical pressure to ruthlessly break the contract, which is completely in line with the consistent style of Western governments.
However, Israel's new prime minister is about to take office, and Netanyahu has just returned to the prime minister's position, and he has encountered such a thorny problem, I am afraid that he has a lot of criticism for Britain.
