Posted on 11/09/2014 5:27:53 AM PST by Fenhalls555
Op-ed: Britain's ambassador to Israel pays his respects to men and women who served in British Armed Forces' Jewish Brigade during World War II.
Asher Dishon remembers keenly his service in the British Armed Forces during World War II. He was born in Vienna and made aliyah in 1938. He and his friends had to decide whether to join the Palmach or the British Army. Asher chose to volunteer for the British Army.
With family still in Europe, serving in the British Army was his way of fighting the Nazis. In 1944, Asher moved to the Jewish Brigade and fought under the blue and white flag on the Italian Front, before returning to Palestine after the war. Many of his friends did not return home with him.
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thank you for posting this rememberance
All I can think of is the extra risk the members of the Jewish brigade took. If the Germans ever took them alive...
Would be interesting to compare with how many Arabs from the area joined British forces.
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You are most welcome, sir.
You got that right.
Ex-Mufti, Criminal Ally (1948)
http://www.varchive.org/obs/480223.htm
The ex·Mufti escaped from Jerusalem and Palestine in the garb of a woman. In Syria he was on Mussolini’s payroll. When, with the beginning of the war, his position in Syria, a French mandate, became ‘insecure,’ he escaped to Iraq. There he worked hard and succeeded in bringing Iraq into the war against the Allies, the declaration of war having been made on May 2, 1941. At that time the Nazis’ entered Greece and Egypt.
When the revolt was crushed (mainly by the Jewish volunteers from Palestine), the ex-Mufti escaped to Iran and hid himself in the Japanese Embassy there. From Teheran he escaped to Italy, where his arrival was announced by the Fascist radio as a “great and happy event;” in November, 1941, he arrived in Berlin and was received by Hitler. In 1942 the ex-Mufti organized the Arab Legion that fought the American invasion in Africa (on Apr. 10, 1946, Representative Celler referred to 3,000 members of the Arab Legion that were held prisoners of war at Camp Opelika in Alabama).
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American Jewish men in far greater proportion than any other group of our American population also joined and fought in the world wars.
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