Thread by @modernhomesla

Anyone watching
"Penny Dreadful
City of Angels"?

Paulie got piqued over

"By Blood + Fire,
Judea will Rise"

How many actors does Israel shield?

Y do Jews kill other Jews?

Y do Jews hate U.K.?

Y do Jews stay Jewish
knowing the State|Religion
is highly corrupt?

Brainwashing?

And save any anti-semite crap 4
a White Nationalist.

Paulie is half Jew.

"In Blood and Fire Shall Judea Rise"

Is Israel just a terrorist org?

Let's explore some info u may not be aware of.

Does terrorism work?
jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Provocative ?
w which Bruce Hoffman begins his book.
Although politicians such as
Ian Smith
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
+
scholars Thomas Schelling
Caleb Carr
Max Abrahms
tend 2 answer in neg,
such widespread belief in its ineffectiveness
is not shared by terrorists.

Few success stories of terrorist groups:
Ireland (1922)
Israel (1948)
Cyprus (1960)
Algeria (1962)
No one doubts the ability of terrorism
2 spark off greater conflagrations;
assass of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
attack on WTC 9-11-2001

"Some terrorist groups such as the Provisional Irish Republican Army and Hezbollah have achieved a modicum of success through their violent antecedents.

Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle 4 Israel,
1917-1947

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

David Ben Gurion + Jewish Agency

OR

Irgun Tzvai Leumi, aka Etzel | Irgun
or
Lohamei Herut Yisrael, aka Lehi.
☝️
"These 2 groups relentlessly targeted British assets
+ personnel in Judea + made British Mandate of Palestine simply untenable."
😱
Turning on U.K. u say?

"roots of unrest in the Fertile Crescent have to do with Jewish immigration into the region. For the longest time, despite the rhetoric of yearning for Zion and the pogroms in Europe, Jews had little interest in migrating to Palestine."

"Thought of these European interlopers
getting their own state on Arab land
was unacceptable.
As result, Jewish settlements
began 2 come under frequent attack
from marauding Arabs.
In this phase,
Jewish pop was largely dependent on
the British + sought their protection."

The Haganah was founded in 1920.

"Against large disturbances,
however, such as the Arab Riots
of 1920-1,
Britain was sole guarantor of security."

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"'Anonymous Soldiers'
explains how London tried 2 balance
2 antithetical commitments 2
Arabs + Jews, but failed in pleasing either.
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini,
appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
by the British in 1921,
invoked Islam N2 Arab nationalism"
jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Waves of Arab revolts:
1924, 1929, 1933, + 1936-9,
+ what Yishuv, Jewish settlements,
saw as soft imperial policy against them
convinced some Jewish elements
2 give up on havlagah, or restraint."

Ya think?

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Until then,
the Jewish community
had worked w British in maintaining peace
despite disagreements over Jewish immigration."

Is Israel + Judaeism
same as
Vatican + Catholicism:
MOB?

How much are those High Holy Day
tickets?????

Sher Jan.

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Haganah received rudimentary training
from British 2 help defend Jewish areas.
Even Ze’ev Jabotinsky,
father of Revisionist Zionism,
believed Britain 2B friendly power
+ the Jews’ natural ally in the Middle East."

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Hanging of Shlomo Ben Yosef
in 1938 4 attempting 2 blow up
commuter bus containing Arabs
was turning point.
Jabotinsky began 2 see British as
unduly harsh on the Jews
in comparison to the Arabs."

So Israel's disdain 4 U.K.
began in 1938.

Cue Etzel
jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Etzel, founded in 1931
2 provide muscular response
2 Arabs as opposed 2
havlagah from the Haganah,
turned on British.
Until then,
they had only targeted Arabs
but Ben Yosef incident disillusioned Jabotinsky
about London’s motives in Palestine."

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"plenty of anti-Semites in London
but reason Whitehall had been soft
on Arabs was they feared repercussions
of an absolute crackdown across Muslim world.
Already, British policy in Palestine
was causing unrest in Iraq
+ among Muslims in India.
jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Outbreak of World War II complicated matters.
No doubt, Germany was an enemy of the Jewish people
but Britain, opposed to the Nazis in Europe,
were the local enemy👈
in their curtailment of immigration
+ restricting Jewish land acquisition."

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Decision 2 cease hostilities against British
did not sit well w all of Jewish commanders.

Avraham Stern
strongly disagreed w his Etzel comrades
+ led split in group 2 form Lehi in 1940.

Lehi sought alliances w
Mussolini’s Italy + Nazi Germany
2 fight against British."

Voopsies

"Alliance failed 2 take shape
+ Stern himself was captured in Tel Aviv
+ killed by British in 1942.

Etzel + Lehi
were sloppy
+ had several failures
in early yrs."

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"It was only after Yitzhak Yezernitsky revived Lehi in 1944 and Menachem Begin took command of Etzel in 1943 that both groups began to have more of an impact on Mandatory politics."

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

Jabotinsky:

"Beyond his role in establishing orgs
like Etzel in Palestine
+ Betar in Riga, Latvia,
the Russian Zionist
was intellectual force
behind a strand of Zionism
that influenced many,
including future prime minister
Menachem Begin."

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"By 1943 both groups
began 2 have more of an impact
on Mandatory politics.

Begin had taken over command of Etzel in 1943

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Haganah was involved in smuggling in Jews beyond the quota allocated by the British and developing stockpiles of arms. These activities may not get the attention of, say, an assassination, but were nonetheless illegal and important to the Yishuv."

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Post World War II,
Palmach units did carry out
series of anti-British ops
that incl freeing Jewish detainees,
bombing British radar installations,
sabotaging ships used 2 intercept
or deport illegal Jewish immig,
destruction of vital bridges,
disrupting rail services,
+ assass."

"Finally, it is important to ponder on the meaning of terrorism: can the Etzel and Lehi truly be considered terrorists in an era when indiscriminate bombardment of civilians such as at Dresden was considered kosher?"

jaideepprabhu.org/2017/03/11/fro…

"Rise and Kill First:
The Secret History of
Israel's Targeted Assassinations"
By Ronen Bergman

Book ends in 1947,
but truly fascinating
info I never knew.

books.google.com/books/about/Ri…

Oh looky.

Bernard Baruch
was born 2 a Jewish Family.

Uh...
Baruch married Annie Griffin, an Episcopalian

-endowed United Daughters of the Confederacy
-United States representative 2 UNs Atomic Energy Commission (1946)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_B…

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