Have you read the new history book, Winston?
At times I think I know where Orwell got some of his inspiration.
The back-dealings of the British with Arab leaders in what was deemed 'oil diplomacy' wasn't friendly either. Neither was the handover of British arms and strongholds to the Arabs within the Palestine mandate as the British high-tailed it out of another failed expedition in the ME, friendly either. Neither was pretty much every effort by the British government outside that of the Balfour declaration in their attempts to prevent the formation of Israel.
Lets see. It was wrong to hand over facilities to the majority of the country.
To do the right thing they should have turned the materiel over to the terrorists who bombed the King David Hotel, the Irgun, Stern Gang and other terrorist organizations who had been murdering Palestinians and British since the 1920s.
But lets ignore all of that. The mandate under which Britain operated was to prepare the Palestinians not European immigrants for self rule. According to zionist history they were supposed to subvert the Palestinians in favor of the Europeans.
But if one rewrites history and leaves out the pertinent details one can make the facts sound like they support the rewriters.
I do find it comical though that there is so much emphasis put on Israel, judgin by the size, and the actual connection to the land in question, by the people in question. This cannot be said by other countries by those lovely post-colonialist powers. But hey, no real rules of law back then eh? Oh wait...
Europeans have no connection with the land but if one pretends the fictional Old Testament is a land deed and plays upon Sunday School nonsense one can pretend a tailor from a shtetl in Poland has always longed to farm the land in Palestine. With the right mood music it might be possible to suppress the giggles.
As an American the idea of colonies has always been anathema and by that I assume anyone reading this knows exactly what colonialism means.
The issue always come back to the simple fact that Israel's absentee owner laws prove beyond a reasonable doubt, pure black letter law, that Jews stole the land. That is the origin of the problem. Remedying that is the only solution to the problem. Thieves will never be allowed quiet possession of stolen property.
Retrospective reasoning is usually infallible. That is, if you bothered to investigate about the number of post-war pogroms that occurred after the war supposedly ended, ie Poland and several x-Soviet satellite countries.
The premise of the reason Israel was formed in the first place has been proven to be true time and time again.
The premise was succinctly stated by Herzl, the Austrian reporter who founded Zionism. Jews can never assimilate into Christian Europe. This is his fundamental premise which is used as the basis for his lectures promoting Zionism. It was adopted at the first Zionist convention in Zurich. Note carefully it is religious only. The jewish "people" had not been invented yet.
Forty years later this same premise was adopted by the NSDAP aka Nazis. One does not need a degree in rocket surgery to understand this is the connection that lead to the close cooperation between the Zionists and the Nazis.
And it was that cooperation that leads everyone who is familiar with the real history of zionism, not the fanciful revision Jews declare is the only truth, to a great frustration in being unable to properly express the hypocrisy of the sham use of Nazis as a bugaboo.
So lets get back to the first part of my response to this post. The Brits were not going to leave weapons and facilities in the hands of terrorists and Nazi collaborators. Sure they had a falling out in 1941 but they still worked together to some extent during the war as in the Kastner case offering war materiel for Jews. Fine for Jews but it gets Brits killed. And Brits were bad people for not helping Jews over Palestinians?
Yes, Winston, it is important to read the new history book.
