A new book uncovers shocking secret attacks launched on ships bearing Holocaust survivors en route to Israel. Andrew Roberts on the violent lengths to which post-war Britain went to appease oil-rich Arab states.Roberts writes that in the course of Operation Embarrass, Great Britain succeeded in blowing up one ship and damaging two others. Keep in mind that these were ships that were just bringing Jewish survivors of the Nazi death camps to safety in the land that would soon become Israel.
As Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, the pitiful remnants of History’s greatest crime, tried to make their way across an often hostile Europe at the end of the Second World War, toward at least a semblance of safety in the Holy Land, they had no shortage of problems with which to contend, including disease and malnutrition, Polish anti-Semitism, Soviet indifference, Allied bureaucracy, and Arab nationalism. Now we discover that they faced yet another peril in the shape of bombs planted on their transport ships by Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6.
A new book to be published next week entitled MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949[The Secret History of MI6], by the distinguished British historian Keith Jeffrey, reveals the existence of Operation Embarrass, a plan to try to prevent Jews getting into Palestine in 1946-'48 using disinformation and propaganda but also explosive devices placed on ships. Nor is this some speculative spy story that can be denied by the authorities: Dr. Jeffrey’s book is actually, in their own words: “Published with the permission of The Secret Intelligence Service and the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.”
According to the review on Amazon.com
:MI6's early days were haphazard but it was quickly forged into an effective organization in the crucible of World War I. During these war years, MI6 also formed ties with the United States-harbingers of a relationship that would become vital to both countries' security as the century progressed. These early years also saw the development of techniques that would become plot devices in a thousand books and films-forgery, invisible ink, disguises, concealing mechanisms, and much more. The interwar years were nominally peaceful, but Britain perceived numerous threats, all of which MI6 was expected to keep tabs on. The outbreak of World War II once again caught MI6 off balance, and high-profile blunders (and the memoirs of MI6 operatives such as Graham Greene) created an impression of ineffectiveness. At the same time, however, the service was pioneering cryptography at Bletchley Park (where the Enigma code would be broken) and devising the very methods and equipment that would inspire Ian Fleming's novels.[emphasis added]Operation Embarrass will only reinforce that impression of ineffectiveness--a moral ineffectiveness that is only highlighted by British haughty criticisms of the measures that Israel takes to defend itself. Roberts himself points out the hypocrisy between what M16 did against real humanitarian flotillas and what Israel does to keep publicity hunting flotillas bringing outdated supplies from possibly bringing assets for Hamas terrorists.
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At a the same time when the British fought against survivors of the Holocaust in order to prevent from them return to their homeland, they allowed Arabs from Arab countries to immigrate into the land of Israel.
ReplyDeleteEven before the Second World War and during the war, the British prevented the Jews to immigrate to their homeland and save themselves from the Holocaust.
Between eighty to ninety percent of those who call themselves Palestinians, they or their parents emigrated to Israel in the modern times. Many of them at the expense of European Jews.
And today, those Arabs claim that they are the Holocaust victims. This is because the Jews came back to Israel and drove out the "Palestinians"
from their "Home Land".
Please read the articles that appear in the links below.
http://www.art-gallery-yona.com/demogra-eng.html
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AWXYV56qlacKZGdwYzRoYzlfMTg1aG1ndmtzZnc&hl=en
End the Unjust Arab Occupation of Jewish Land
ReplyDeleteNO PALESTINIAN STATE – No land concessions R8.
The Palestinian Arabs have proven that land concession is detrimental to Israel, or any concession for that matter.
Imagine that the various people who settled in the United States for the past 300 years decided one day that they one to parcel the United States into an independent State just for them, would the American public go for it. The Answer is absolutely NO.
The situation in Israel today is no different. The Arabs there are not Palestinians, there is no such Arab nation as Palestine or Palestinian people.
Europeans countries today are consisting of numerous people from other countries. Would the Europeans people cede part of their country to set up another State in their midst. The answer is absolutely NO.
Archeological excavations and historical data is the best proof Israel belongs to the Jewish Nation and non-other.
All the Arabs in Israel and surrounding areas are from the various Arab nations, such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and other Arab nations.
Transfer all Arabs from Israel to Jewish Land and Homes confiscated by Arab Countries.
Prominent PLO Arab says there are no 'Palestinians' and no "Palestine"
PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein admitted in a March 31, 1977 interview with a Dutch newspaper Trouw.
"The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism. "
The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people