Posted on 04/13/2010 2:42:15 AM PDT by Traianus
On December 15, 1947, at approximately 1:45 P.M., about 20 fighters of the Haganah - the pre-state underground Jewish militia - seized a British truck south of Acre. The men, armed but wearing civilian clothing, confiscated about half a ton of documents, packed into eight sealed steel containers and 12 sacks of diplomatic mail. The documents had been sent from the British legation in Beirut to Haifa Port, from which they were to be transported to Britain.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Can you summarize this item from Thu., July 03, 2008, and why do you consider it ‘Breaking News’?
It's in the rocker panels.
Relevance?
Lawrence: Arabia is for the Arabs now. That’s what I’ve told them anyway. That’s what they think. That’s why they’re fighting.
Allenby: Oh surely.
Lawrence: They’ve only one suspicion. We let them drive the Turks out and then move in ourselves. I’ve told them that that’s false, that we’ve no ambitions in Arabia. Have we?
Allenby: I’m not a politician, thank god. Have we any ambition in Arabia, Dryden?
Dryden: Difficult question sir.
Lawrence: I want to know sir, if I can tell them, in your name, that we’ve no ambitions in Arabia.
Allenby: Certainly.
Interesting reading. Thanks to the French and to our own beloved country and go Israel!
Assuming that this account is accurate, it becomes clear why Britain went from “Great Power with a Global Empire” to “Small Island Where You Cannot Own a Large Knife or Strenuously Object to a Home Invasion.”
“I will Bless them that bless you, and curse them that curse you.”
DG
Come - ON, Irv!!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Error i guess, but NOT SO MUCH; at last everything which puts legitimacy of ISRAEL to EXIST in a CLEAR LIGHT is NEW.....
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