Posted on 05/14/2008 1:42:23 PM PDT by forkinsocket
British cut up and divided their empire like it was cake. Not realizing the arbitrary lines they are drawing are full of real issues, real values, real emotions and real people. From Iraq, to India-Pakistan, to Africa, to even some Island disputes between China and Japan, Brits did not think it through when they decided to pack up and leave.
Some say it was done on purpose with the thought being that conflicts would keep people weak and somehow that would help keep the crown strong.
I don’t believe that. They however did manage to leave mess behind.
Seems a fair enough criticism, however, it would be worth pointing out to the author that same ‘chattering classes’ who condemn Israel for ‘Imperialism’ are generally not the type of people who are fond of bellowing lusty renditions of ‘Rule Britannia’ in praise of the glorious British Empire either. There is no hypocrisy from them when they criticise Israel’s alleged ‘imperialism’ for their part as individuals....
Thank God for them.
It's fashionable to blame them for everything under the sun, but they held the line against despots.
Jews started returning ti Israel in the 19th century. It was just a matter of time. There propbably would have been a few million more returning later but the Germans and the Craz had other ideas.
How preposterous.
It wasn't "racism" that drove the British to act against Spain. Their motive was to block the Spanish from taking over the world, including the New World.
Israel history ping
The current breed otherwise known as Marxists.
And, yes, Marxists hate Israel.
Well, such is the party line. Scholars reexamining that era are concluding that Britain was not as hostile to Zionism as the propagandists of the period claimed.
I believe it is a bit misleading to assert that Her Majesty's Government promised Palestine to the Jews.
Lloyd George's government authorized a letter pledging the support of the British government for the establishment in Palestine of a ‘National Home’ for the Jewish people. Neville Chamberlain's government abrogated the declaration in 1939.
Joan Peters’ book, From Time Immemorial, does an outstanding job of detailing the past history of Arab animosity and treachery towards Jews over the past 1500 years.
The Ottaman Turks, frustrated by the lack of tax revenue generated by Palestine, invited European Jewry to emigrate to that region and restore its usefulness. The Jews built farms and orchards, then fellahin (Arab peasants) migrated into Palestine from surrounding areas to seasonally work in the fields and orchards. Ms. Peters fully develops the repercussions of the above, and the age-old hatred Arab Muslims have for Jews.
I was surprised to find that animostiy traces as far back as 3500 years ago, when three ancient Hebrew tribes separated from Moses and traveled south into the Arabian penninsula. They set up trading posts and thrived for 2000 years before being wiped out by the Prophet Muhammed, angered by Jewish leaders unwilling to accept Muhammed as a new Prophet. So Muhammed ordered his new converts to slaughter all Jews, everywhere and forever.
That's a racist statement. What really happened is that as proto-multiculturalists, the Brit's recognized diversity as a strength and wanted all members of the newly independent colonies to continually celebrate their diversity...Right?
The Muslim Turkisk Empire had NO more stalwart ally than Imperial Britain. The Eenglish precipitated the Ottoman entry into WW1 on the side of the Central Europeans by stealing Turkisk warships.
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Ping
What of the strike on British occupational HQ?
I would like for the writer of this piece to meet with the families killed in that terrorist act.
After all, worse terrorist act until the 1980’s yet the British was supposed to love the Jews afterwards?
“I believe it is a bit misleading to assert that Her Majesty’s Government promised”. Ha, You said a mouthful. Once England realized that even in tandem with france and Russia it was going to lose its war, the promises it made to potential benefactors and allies were not even limited by the promisses it had already given. Illyria to the Italians after giving them to the Serbs, the same areas of Turkey to both Italy and Greece, Chinese land to the Japs, even the African Dutch only recently freed from HMG’s concentration camps were to be prize winners for staying on board. And on and on. A few folks, but very few, like the Danes had the good sense to look HMG bountiful gift horse in the mouth. Misleading is just not the word!
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