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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."
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Posted on 05/27/2025 5:47:19 AM PDT by Milagros

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1 posted on 05/27/2025 5:47:19 AM PDT by Milagros
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Tell De Gaulle to speak with Macron and his VICHY government of Arab-Nazi collaborators.


2 posted on 05/27/2025 5:52:03 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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He died over fifty years ago...


3 posted on 05/27/2025 6:02:53 AM PDT by GOPJ (Next liberal scam to steal voter sanity will be based on loneliness, control of the young & lies.)
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To: Milagros
Charles de Gaulle has offended the Muslims! This means all statues of de Gaulle must be immediately taken down.

Au revoir, Charles.

4 posted on 05/27/2025 6:06:44 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Milagros

“Palestine”? Palestine? How can this be? We are routinely assured by zionist FReepers that there’s no such place in the historical record.


5 posted on 05/27/2025 6:07:48 AM PDT by Romulus ( )
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To: Milagros

A world without General Charles de Gaulle is a world without General Charles de Gaulle


6 posted on 05/27/2025 6:07:54 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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I will say, if it wasn’t for de Gaulle, France may very well have gone Communist after WWII.


7 posted on 05/27/2025 6:09:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.’


8 posted on 05/27/2025 6:11:20 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: dfwgator

Of course.


9 posted on 05/27/2025 6:11:54 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: dfwgator

Truth.


10 posted on 05/27/2025 6:19:22 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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“ 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.

L


11 posted on 05/27/2025 6:21:37 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: dfwgator
France could really use a guy like General Charles de Gaulle just now.

In fact, 2025 France may be a unique time in history where one de Gaulle may not be enough.

12 posted on 05/27/2025 6:23:57 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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What he is telling you is that there were Jews and Arabs aka Muslims...and no such thing as Palestinians.


13 posted on 05/27/2025 6:28:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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14 posted on 05/27/2025 6:50:27 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Romulus
We are routinely assured by zionist FReepers that there’s no such place in the historical record.

Defining "Zionist FReepers" as any FR poster who does not favor the killing of Jews? Count me in.

15 posted on 05/27/2025 6:54:35 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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To: Milagros

The pro Nazi sympathies of many Arab leaders during WW-II is well documented.


16 posted on 05/27/2025 7:14:53 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Milagros

btt


17 posted on 05/27/2025 7:17:17 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: dfwgator
I will say, if it wasn’t for de Gaulle, France may very well have gone Communist after WWII.

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.

18 posted on 05/27/2025 8:04:23 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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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.


19 posted on 05/27/2025 8:07:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.


20 posted on 05/27/2025 8:38:01 AM PDT by Wuli
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