Spare me the romantic tosh.
The Irgun and the Stern gangs were terrorists. End of.
They bombed and shot innocent men, women and children, including Jews. They blew up the King David Hotel, killing and maiming many of their fellow Jews. They tortured two unarmed British off duty soldiers (Sgts Martin and Paice), then boobytrapped their bodies. They murdered any Jew they suspected of opposing them and being sympathetic to the British administration.
For ffs, they even murdered Count Bernadotte in 1948, a true hero who has spent WW2 SAVING thousands of Jewish lives!.
Abraham Stern was such a diseased Zionist fanatic, in 1941, he met with Nazi representatives to discuss an alliance where the Stern Gang would keep attacking the British in Palestine, in reply the Nazis would agree to deport all European Jews to Israel and allow the Zionists to set up Israel. All Jews would be out of Europe, which is what the Nazis wanted.
Think I am kidding?. The meeting happened.
The British could have wiped them out, and been brutal in doing so, but after 1945 and the concentration camps, the whole world was watching Palestine and Britain could not and would not incur the wrath of America and the world.
We had to try and fight two terrorist groups with one hand tied behind our back.
The very men who has fought and bled across Europe to liberate Belsen, defeat the Nazis and save what was left of European Jewish civilisation.....what was their thanks?.
To be bombed, shot and murdered by Jewish extremists.
The “Scotsman” clearly has a bad case of butthurt.
You are correct that the Brits could have wiped the Jews out after WW2 but chose not to. The reasons they did not are not the ones you mentioned. Unlike you most Brits were decent people who wanted nothing to do with genocide. They knew that they bore a moral responsibility for allowing millions of Jews to be murdered by not allowing them to emigrate from the European continent to Israel/Palestine during the Holocaust.
“The very men who has fought and bled across Europe to liberate Belsen, defeat the Nazis and save what was left of European Jewish civilisation.....what was their thanks?.”
It is great that the Brits fought the Nazis. But they did not do it to save what was left of European Jews. They did it to save their country after Hitler was a threat to them. Before that they were OK giving him a free hand to do whatever he wanted in Eastern Europe, including with the Jews. You have conveniently omitted Neville Chamberlain's craven capitulation to the Nazis when he gifted Czechoslovakia to them and then declared that he had bought “peace in our time?”
After WW1 Britain was given a MANDATE (that means something they had to do) by the League of Nations to create a Jewish Homeland in “Palestine.” The territory of that Mandate included what is now Israel and Jordan, a pretty big piece of real estate.
Nefariously, Britain chopped off the lion's share of that territory and gave it to a Saudi prince, Abdullah, creating the Judenrein nation of Trans Jordan.
The so called “Jewish extremists” realized that the Jewish people could not rely on the Brits for their survival and did what they had to do for the restoration of of Jewish sovereignty.
You know what they say: “one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.”
“All Jews would be out of Europe, which is what the Nazis wanted.”
The Nazis did not want that. They wanted all Jews in the entire world killed. You know that very well which underlines the duplicity of your post.
Methinks it fitting that you spare us your romantic tosh.