BBC tv "Empire Warriors" -July 22nd 1946,Jerusalem....

[Englander]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20041126/20041126_2100_4224_55974_60

Fri 26 Nov, 21:00 - 22:00 60 mins

The Jewish War

On July 22nd 1946, in British-administered Palestine, Jewish guerillas
carried out one of the most spectacular and controversial guerilla attacks of the 20th century.
The bombing of the King David hotel, which housed the British administration in a section of the hotel, killed 91 people.

Former Jewish guerillas who planned and carried out the attack
tell the inside story of their violent campaign to oust the British and establish a State of Israel.

Members of the British security forces in Palestine during that time
describe their encounters with what could be described as the birth of modern, urban guerilla warfare.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel

[UL_Approved]

1. The great flaw of modern Israel

This is a state built on violence and terrorism. Yet they make claim that the Palestinians are the enemy. Just more extremist bullshit.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. One man's patriot is another man's terrorist. Palestine: case in point.

U.S.A. has honorable mention (Native Americans were the original Palestinians.)

[WyLoochka]

3. The descendants of these

Jewish guerillas - the guys now in control of Israel need to experience the public dissing of a "Sister Sooljah" event. Bush* certainly won't do that. It's up to the Democrats to do it and get the US out of this abusive, extraordinarily expensive relationship that Israel has entangled us in for far too long.

For more on this read Charley Reese's (paleo conservative) piece, Not What You Think from 11/20/04:

http://www.antiwar.com/reese/

"The majority of American diplomatic efforts in the Middle East are directed at trying to persuade Arab countries to accept Israel. Their relationship to Israel is really none of our business.

I realize that members of a Christian cult that originated in the 19th century believe they have a biblical obligation to love Israel. Well, people are entitled to their religious beliefs, but none of them has any business being used as a basis for American foreign policy. We have one, and only one, interest in the Middle East. That is access, at a fair market price, to oil. Whether the countries from which we buy oil like or don't like Israel, are democracies or monarchies or dictatorships, is immaterial and irrelevant.

I harbor no ill feelings toward Israel. In many ways, it is an admirable country, but it is a foreign country, and the United States should treat Israel the same as it treats every other foreign nation. We should make it clear, for example, that Israel's enemies are not our enemies. If the Israelis and the Syrians don't get along, that's their business. Our relations with Syria should be based strictly on how Syria treats Americans and America's interests."

snip

"We should not be involved in the Middle East at all except as purchasers of oil, but we will go on spending treasure and blood in that area until the American people elect some politicians brave enough to face down the Israeli lobby.

Establishing a modern state of Israel in the middle of the Arab world was a British colonial idea. Americans should not pay with their lives and tax dollars for a British blunder."