To: churchillbuff; dennisw; SJackson; Tailgunner Joe; IsraelBeach; sergey1973; American in Israel; ...
==60th anniversary of the terror attack on the King David Hotel by Menachem Begin's Irgun, an attack that killed 92 people, among them British nurses.
The attack on the King David Hotel was not a terror attack. Read Menachem Begin's "The Revolt." King David Hotel was the administrative headquarters for the British Military. The British, please recall, were turning ships full of Jews fleeing Hitlers gas chambers and sending them back to be murdered by the Nazis (among other things). The Irgun fought against the British with a tiny band of fighters against overwhelming odds. When the Irgun blew the British military headquarters at King David, they called ahead and warned them that the building was about to blow. They even called neighboring buildings and warned them to stay away from glass windows. A British colonel basically declared that he was not going to take any orders from a Jews and barred the doors and held the occupants inside against their will at gunpoint. The bomb finally went off and the people inside payed the consequences of that stupid officers decision.
This was one of the most shameful chapters in British history, and Pat Buchanan is an idiot (at best!) for bringing it up in this context--GGG
To: GodGunsGuts; SJackson; Tailgunner Joe
BTW, notice that Pat's piece is published by WorldNetDaily. The owner/editor, Joseph Farah, is a Catholic from a Lebanese family.
89 posted on
08/01/2006 3:51:17 AM PDT by
familyop
("Either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists." --President Bush)
To: GodGunsGuts
Thanks for the ping, BTW. Pat's WorldNetDaily piece made a good addition to my FR page (below). My intention is not to accuse all people of a religion of behaving like Pat and his editor but rather to encourage the better majority to bluntly, honestly and publicly denounce them as being what they are. ...the only way to solve problems like that, IMO.
And here's one from a couple of religious identity partners of Hezbollah (Pat Buchanan and his editor).
Our moral culpability for Qana
90 posted on
08/01/2006 4:10:12 AM PDT by
familyop
("Either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists." --President Bush)
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