I'm not entirely sure I understand your statement:
"Israel really is the last time that Britain got away with what they wanted."
I don't know the history of the region in great detail, but as I recall, Jewish organizations waged a fairly bloody campaign against the Mandatory government in the years following WW2 (prime minister Menahim Begin was involved in a hotel bombing that claimed over 90 lives). The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
I suppose it's hard to attribute what the British Empire wanted so I shouldn't have said that. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
The British government used troops who had spent most of their war in the far east ( my grandfather spent a good deal of the second world war avoiding capture ). This was so they would not be too "soft" on the Jews emmigrating from Europe.
At the time the Arab League were using availability of oil to make threats to the British.
At the same time Jews, in Poland who were returning to their homes form the camps were the victims of pogroms by their old neighbours. Money is a sign of Poverty - Culture Saying
it's dangerous because of its historical grounding
Santayana's dictum that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it is often quoted. For my part, I think history is too often just a list of grievances, and that remembering history all too often just leads to re-enacting it with the roles of victim and executioner reversed, adding an item to the list and waiting for the next repetition. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
