Thursday, November 01, 2007

October 31st:: An Important Date For Zionists

Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Beer Sheva.

Check out Treppenwitz:
We tend to think of the British only in the context of the Mandate period and the struggle for Israeli statehood. But it is now clear to me that without the efforts of these mostly forgotten young British and ANZAC (Australian & New Zealand) soldiers, buried in a Beer Sheva cemetery so far from their homes, there very likely would not be a modern state of Israel!
Read the whole thing.

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