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Aardvark · 14-06-2006, 03:22 PM

The bombing of German cities is completely different to what took place in Palestine under the Mandate. Germany was at war with the UK and Commonwealth. Germany's army was illegally occupying several countries. They had to be defeated. The alternative to attacking Germany and destroying its industrial capacity was to be subject to German occupation ourselves. If the RAF had not maintained the war on Germany when the rest of Europe had given up there wouldn't be any Jews alive today to have an Israel!!!!

The Mandate was created under the auspices of the League of Nations after WWI. Palestine had been part of Ottoman Turkey and was ceded by the Turkish Government. The British Mandate had international agreement. The Jewish terrorists were not soldiers, they were not part of any national army. There was no Jewish state; they were subject to British rule under international agreement. The attack was purely intended to destabilise the British presence and to weaken the resolve of the UK to continue with the Mandate. It had no legitimacy since the British Mandate was being wound up in any event and the Jews were not being oppressed by a power that occupied their land (read the sodding Balfour Declaration!)

BTW I don't accept that the Jews alive today are pure bred descendants of the wandering tribe that was allegedly given the holy land by a god who may or may not even exist - it's quite possible that the Books of Moses are a complete work of fiction and they certainly aren't the basis for drawing borders to be occupied by Poles, Russians and Belarussians 3000 years later.

I get the impression, Adrian, that you are seeking to justify wholesale murder by Jewish terrorists because it doesn't fit with your world view.

The Royal Air Force aircrew could never be considered terrorists. Unlike the terrorists that blew up the King David Hotel the RAF aircrew wore uniform, obeyed a set of rules and regulations laid down by a democratically elected government and fought a war in a style that the enemy had invented and presumably accepted (Guernica).

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Aardvark Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oxonia Posts: 4,256	The bombing of German cities is completely different to what took place in Palestine under the Mandate. Germany was at war with the UK and Commonwealth. Germany's army was illegally occupying several countries. They had to be defeated. The alternative to attacking Germany and destroying its industrial capacity was to be subject to German occupation ourselves. If the RAF had not maintained the war on Germany when the rest of Europe had given up there wouldn't be any Jews alive today to have an Israel!!!! The Mandate was created under the auspices of the League of Nations after WWI. Palestine had been part of Ottoman Turkey and was ceded by the Turkish Government. The British Mandate had international agreement. The Jewish terrorists were not soldiers, they were not part of any national army. There was no Jewish state; they were subject to British rule under international agreement. The attack was purely intended to destabilise the British presence and to weaken the resolve of the UK to continue with the Mandate. It had no legitimacy since the British Mandate was being wound up in any event and the Jews were not being oppressed by a power that occupied their land (read the sodding Balfour Declaration!) BTW I don't accept that the Jews alive today are pure bred descendants of the wandering tribe that was allegedly given the holy land by a god who may or may not even exist - it's quite possible that the Books of Moses are a complete work of fiction and they certainly aren't the basis for drawing borders to be occupied by Poles, Russians and Belarussians 3000 years later. I get the impression, Adrian, that you are seeking to justify wholesale murder by Jewish terrorists because it doesn't fit with your world view. The Royal Air Force aircrew could never be considered terrorists. Unlike the terrorists that blew up the King David Hotel the RAF aircrew wore uniform, obeyed a set of rules and regulations laid down by a democratically elected government and fought a war in a style that the enemy had invented and presumably accepted (Guernica).