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To: Marguerite

No, most Israelis dont hate Britain, just bigots like you.

And it was the British who liberated Jews from camps like Belsen. And the Jews we barred from Palestine were mainly held in camps in Italy.

What was our thanks for liberating Jews and defeating Nazism?. Three years of terrorism from the Irgun and the Stern gang, who murdered and maimed hundreds of British soldiers and civilians and many of their own Jewish brethern in their bombing campaign from 1944 to 1948. Even kindapping two British soldiers, torturing them to death, and boobytrapping their bodies. The Stern gang even murdered the Swedish count, Folke Bernadotte, who had saved tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary during the war.

Yet, for the disgusting acts of those two groups, do the majority of the British people hate Israel?. No, only the minority who are extremist Muslim, hardleft pro-palestinians or extreme right wing racist bigots like the BNP or Combat 18.


22 posted on 02/20/2012 1:28:08 AM PST by the scotsman (I)
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To: the scotsman
You don't even know what are you talking about.

The Jews arriving after the war from ruined Europe were intercepted by British naval forces. British authorities held Jewish immigrants in detention camps on Cyprus from 1946 to 1949. This policy was part of an effort to deter Jewish immigration to Palestine, under British control, as was Cyprus. During that time over 53,000 Jews passed through the barbed wire camps, held against their will.

British documents about those camps were kept secret as classified documents for 60 whopping years; secrecy agreements prevented British employees from speaking out. After 60 years many of these documents have been declassified. Documentation is now available. Check them out (Google is your friend).

Jewish refugees in a Cyprus detention camp protest the restrictive British policy on immigration, Cyprus, 1946.

The “Exodus 1947,” a ship filled with Jewish Holocaust survivors who wanted to immigrate to Palestine, after it was seized by the British Navy in a deadly struggle at sea in July, 1947.

British detention camps for Jews in Cyprus, 1945-1949 Don't you ever tell me about your truth" again, ignoramus. One of my aunt with her whole family were held prisoners there.

23 posted on 02/20/2012 2:18:47 AM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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