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.
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.
They broke up the Muslim Empire.
I appreciated the post and have very mixed feelings though. This on it's content. What is to be re-stated is your (what's up) comments. The Turks were almost unbeatable. They had shattered the expeditionary force to Gallipoli. They had brutally marched 5000 men to their deaths, as prisoners on the British surrender of the garrison of Kut. This I believe in what is now Iraq.
Lord Allenby entered Jerusalem on foot in 1917. The victor over the Turks.
Well enough of my ramble here but..... It was in 1945, the English cinemas showed the pictures of British Troops freeing the concentration camp Jeweish inmates- and of course American troops doing the same. Imagine the confusion about Jews in England, when in 1946-1948, British troops were being murdered. This by the two terrorist gangs. The Irgun and the Stern gang.
I will have to do more on the subject, but in the meantime my tribute to those who...... In a general sense, caught in the middle. The old poem.
Their's not to reason why. Their's but to do or die.
Someone had blundered, not though the soldier knew etc.