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| | So no, there is no reason to apologize. And for anyone still wondering, the aggressor which refused any form of a partition plan and plotted to wipe out a nation, has no right to restitution or compensation, and certainly no right of return. | | So no, there is no reason to apologize. And for anyone still wondering, the aggressor which refused any form of a partition plan and plotted to wipe out a nation, has no right to restitution or compensation, and certainly no right of return. |
| | However, the Jews who were displaced from the Arab countries, whose property and possessions were confiscated, should have the right to get it back.</blockquote></ref><i> his books - "Closed Case" and "The Hidden Side of Nazism and the Holocaust" - he claims that about 9,000 Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs did enlist to the British Army during the war (in comparison with about 27,000 Jews). But, from the moment it became evident the Germans may pass through Egypt and reach Palestine in spring 1942, Palestinian Arabs switched sides. | | However, the Jews who were displaced from the Arab countries, whose property and possessions were confiscated, should have the right to get it back.</blockquote></ref><i> his books - "Closed Case" and "The Hidden Side of Nazism and the Holocaust" - he claims that about 9,000 Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs did enlist to the British Army during the war (in comparison with about 27,000 Jews). But, from the moment it became evident the Germans may pass through Egypt and reach Palestine in spring 1942, Palestinian Arabs switched sides. |
| − | About 78% of the Arab volunteers deserted the British army, often times stealing weapons for the purpose of helping the Germans fight the Jews when the time came. Additionally, a survey conducted in 1941 shows that 88% of Palestinian Arabs supported Nazi Germany, while only 9% backed the British mandate.</i> And then there is that Shukairy's testimony<ref name=ek/> in his book about almost no one agreeing in 1940 to help in British war efforts).</small> | + | About 78% of the Arab volunteers deserted the British army, often times stealing weapons for the purpose of helping the Germans fight the Jews when the time came. Additionally, a survey conducted in 1941 shows that 88% of Palestinian Arabs supported Nazi Germany, while only 9% backed the British mandate.</i> And then there is that Shukairy's testimony<ref name=ek/> in his book about almost no one agreeing in 1940 to help in British war efforts. |
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| | + | Excerpt from a Sep. 1944 article by a Canadian Rev. Eric D. Errey:<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=ef9OAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA16">The Canadian Jewish Chronicle - Sep 15, 1944 - Pages 27-28</ref><blockquote> |
| | + | "The Forgotten Ally." |
| | + | ...The world has never been adequatly informed about the many Jews who fought with the British 8th Army from Alamein and on. When the great offensive was planned to begin at El Alamein, General Montgomery felt that it would a useful strategy to deploy a group of commandos behind the enemy lines at Bardia, So 85 commandos were chosen for this arduous task, and every one of them Jew! These 85 Jewish commandos were taken by British warships to the chosen spot, set ashore, and within a short time, and coinciding with the attack of the 8th Army, these 85 Jews captured Bardia with 9,000 prisoners! Holding on long enough to hand over the great booty - the to the victorious 8th Army as it raced through. |
| | + | Time does not permit tell of all the other exploits of Jewish soldiers and guerillas, of the capture, for example, of Fort Courand in French Syria by a handful Jewish civilians armed with rifles and other ...small arms, thus opening the way to Australians in their offensive against Vichy Syria. |
| | + | All the world over the Jewish people have suffered at the hands of Hitler and all other people everywhere who are moved like Hitler by racial intolerance and sometimes very hatred. |
| | + | And all the world over, no people have been more ready to fight against Hitlerism than the Jews. And yet, these people continue to be misunderstood and misused by those who ought to be their friends, which the Jewish people of the world seek. |
| | + | First, they seek a Homeland... It was promised to them after the last war. On the basis of that promise some half a million Jews went into Palestine following the last war. They made Haifa into the third largest harbor in the Mediterranean. They built Tel Aviv into a city of 200,000 where thirty years before nothing but sand dunes lay. They transformed the agriculture of the country and reclaimed the desert. Surely a stirring story of two decades of hard work to turn the desert into a garden. But those were the decades, too, especially towards the end of the period, when appeasement was going strong. |
| | + | And <b>the final act of appeasement was done in May 1939, when the British government issued its White Paper, to appease the Pro-Nazi elements among the Arabs, led by the Mufti of Jerusalem, who even now is, cavorting somewhere in Germany with his other Nazi friends</b>. |
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