Cohen, Samy. De Gaulle, les gaullistes et Israël. France: A. Moreau, 1974.
p.30.
Posted on 05/27/2025 5:47:19 AM PDT by Milagros
General Charles de Gaulle: "I remember Palestine in 1941. Those Jewish youngsters were wonderful. They fought on our side, while the Arabs—we must admit—were on the other side."
Cohen, Samy. De Gaulle, les gaullistes et Israël. France: A. Moreau, 1974.
p.30.
A Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber venu s'entretenir avec lui en Juillet 1968, le général de Gaulle dit : « (...) je me rap-pelle la Palestine en 1941, et ces jeunes Juifs étaient merveilleux, ils se battaient à nos côtés alors que les Arabes — il faut bien le dire — étaient de l'autre bord. » — Source : Extrait inédit du compte rendu de l'entretien de Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber avec le général de Gaulle, en date du 5 Juillet 1968.
[To Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber who came to talk with him in July 1968, General de Gaulle said: "(...) I remember Palestine in 1941, and those young Jews were marvelous, they were fighting alongside us while the Arabs - it must be said - were on the other side." - Source: Unpublished extract from the report of the meeting between Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber and General de Gaulle, dated July 5, 1968.]
De cette brève fraternité d’armes, de Gaulle conserve encore en 1968 le souvenir : « Et moi, je ne suis peut-être pas un ami d’Israël ! D’ailleurs je me rappelle la Palestine en 1941, et ces jeunes juifs étaient merveilleux, ils se battaient à nos côtés alors que les Arabes — il faut bien le dire — étaient de l’autre bord. »
De Gaulle still remembered this brief brotherhood in arms in 1968: "And I, perhaps, am not a friend of Israel! Besides, I remember Palestine in 1941, and those young Jews were marvelous, they fought alongside us while the Arabs - it must be said - were on the other side."]
... Gaulle would later confess to French journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, "I remember Palestine in 1941. Those Jewish youngsters were wonderful. They fought on our side, while the Arabs—we must admit—supported the other side."
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Tell De Gaulle to speak with Macron and his VICHY government of Arab-Nazi collaborators.
He died over fifty years ago...
Au revoir, Charles.
“Palestine”? Palestine? How can this be? We are routinely assured by zionist FReepers that there’s no such place in the historical record.
A world without General Charles de Gaulle is a world without General Charles de Gaulle
I will say, if it wasn’t for de Gaulle, France may very well have gone Communist after WWII.
See the barometer..
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Hurewitz, Jacob Coleman. The Struggle for Palestine, New York 1950. Hyamson , Albert M. Palestine Under the Mandate 1920–1948 , Westport 1976, p.119. (Plunkett Lake Press, 2022)
https://books.google.com/books?id=yeh8EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1719
‘As the war dragged on and the Arab political machine remained stalled, the Public Information Office came to relyheavily on the newspapers for recruitment. Thus almost identically worded editorials were published in the three dailies in mid-February 1942, pleading with the Arabs to enlist in the British Army.
The Arabs were reminded that their nationalist claims would carry little weight in the peace settlement unless they could point to substantial contributions to the war effort. The overtones of these editorials relating to the fact that the war was not “a struggle merely between two groups of belligerents over differences of political conceptions, but a conflict between universal social principles and the ideals of liberty and a regime of intimidation” suggested British, not Arab origin.
A barometer of the prevailing Arab attitude toward the war was the number of Arab enlistees in the British armed forces. Arab recruits approximated only one-third of the 27,000 Palestinians who volunteered for British military service by December 1942. In fact, in the anxious days of the preceding July, when it seemed likely that Rommel might actually succeed in driving the British out of Egypt, although total enlistments reached an all-time monthly peak of over 2,000, Arab figures did not exceed 117, or less than 50 per cent of their monthly average for the year. The number of Arab deserters from the British armed forces was known to be considerable in the spring of 1941, and even more numerous in the summer of 1942. Indeed, Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, a tried friend of the Arabs, later claimed that “every Arab force [except the Arab Legion of Transjordan, which he commanded] previously organized by us mutinied and refused to fight for us, or faded away in desertions” at the time of the Iraqi revolt in May 1941.’
Of course.
Truth.
“ I will say, if it wasn’t for de Gaulle, France may very well have gone Communist after WWII.”
So it only took 60 or so years after his death.
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In fact, 2025 France may be a unique time in history where one de Gaulle may not be enough.
What he is telling you is that there were Jews and Arabs aka Muslims...and no such thing as Palestinians.
Defining "Zionist FReepers" as any FR poster who does not favor the killing of Jews? Count me in.
The pro Nazi sympathies of many Arab leaders during WW-II is well documented.
btt
Quite likely. The irony of how Europe was divided after WWII is that countries that had a high level of support for Communism and socialism (France, Italy, Greece) went NATO while countries with almost no grassroots support for Communism (Poland, Hungary, eastern Germany) went Warsaw Pact.
Regardless, De Gaulle is probably the last truly great head of state of any western European nation for the reason that you describe. It's a long way down from De Gaulle's level to Macron's.
Right after the liberation of Paris, the Communists basically took over the city, and were eliminating their opposition by accusing them of being collaborators, and holding mock trials.
De Gaulle put a stop to it, once he entered the city.
DeGaulle - the epitome of a proud Frenchman, who sometimes allowed that pride to rein over decisions that required more humility than he cared to have.
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