British Palestine

 Several Brits figured all the British Jews should go to Palestine, of whom Rev. Keith was the most famous (but there were many others). After WWI (actually, starting during WWI), the UK and France took all the Ottoman colonies outside Europe and made them UK and French colonies, and the British promised a big chunk of their colonies for UK Jews to get them out of the UK.

Not just that, but, the UK offered Central Power Jews during WWI and Axis Jews during WWII free land in Palestine if they would betray the Central Powers or the Axis. No Jews took the UK up on the offer, but the Nazis used the offer as proof that every Jew had betrayed Germany.

I've read about Jewish terrorists and Arab terrorists trying to get the UK out of Palestine during the '20s and '30s.

But the total number of Jews who went to Palestine remained small until 1948 when the US sent all the Jews in Western Europe to what had been British Palestine (but that ended in 1948 when the UN voted to divide Palestine between the Arabs and the Jews and end UK colonial status).

The US, after 1944, had open admission for Jews, so some of the European Jews shipped to Palestine managed to get US passports and moved to the US (with dual citizenship).

But after the US sent the European Jews to Palestine, many Muslim countries evicted all their Jews for stealing Palestine, and they had nowhere to go except Palestine.

1945 - 1948

 The Red Army was the first to find a German Death Camp in 1945. But the USSR made ethnic groups illegal, hence there were, under USSR law, no Jews, no Aryans, no Slavs. So the USSR recorded more than 26 million Soviets dead, some in combat, some starved to death, some killed in death camps. No record of Jews, since, under USSR law, there was no such thing.

The Allies came across German Death Camps not long after the Soviets. The Allies recognised ethnic groups, and counted 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis out of a total of 11 million Jews in Europe.

After 1944, a bit on the late side, the US guaranteed entry for any European Jew who could make it to the US. An American friend thought the US had done all it could to protect the European Jews. Not quite.

But what to do? The Europeans didn't want the Jews. Their homes had been confiscated by the Nazis and sold, and the new owners didn't see why they should be evicted for the sins of the defeated Nazis.

So the Americans decided to ship all the Western European Jews to Palestine in 1948. The Rev Keith of the UK had suggested back in the 19th century that British Jews should all go to Palestine where, with advanced agricultural methods, they could bring in very good harvests in the Fertile Crescent, providing the UK with grain and tropical fruits. 

After WWI, the UK and France took most of what had been the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans being among the losers, so they lost their Empire, as did the Austrians and Germans and Russians. The lost Ottoman Empire colonies became French and British colonies.

The British said that the traditional Jewish homeland would be given to British Jews. My Bible has a map, and there were Jewish colonies in Palestine and the Transjordan, and up into what is now southern Lebanon.

Then the Brits decided the Transjordan would be for Arabs, the Transjordan Jewish tribal members in the UK could live in part of Palestine, and not only would the Jews not get Lebanon (which went to France, not the UK) nor the Transjordan, they had to share the British colony of Palestine with the Palestinians. Both Jews and Palestinians wanted rid of the Brits, but the Brits were much too strong between WWI and WWII.

And then, in 1948, the US sent the Western European Jews to Palestine. There was a war between the European Jews and the Palestinians who wanted to keep their land, even though the US and UK said European Jews now had the right to live there. As it turned out, the Arabs managed to hold on to the West Bank and Gaza, with the European Jews getting the rest of Palestine. The Palestinians call this the Nakba.

The years 1933 - 1940

 In 1933, Germany elected a Chancellor who wanted a Judenfrei Europe, a Europe with no Jews. He had laws that made it difficult for Jews to find a place to live or a place to work, so many Jews tried to leave Europe. Only no country outside Europe would take them. The Chancellor wanted to deport Jews, only Britain said the Royal Navy would prevent any such deportations.

So the Jews who wanted to leave Europe could not, and Germany were not allowed to deport them, so there they all were when the war started. The war was declared in 1939, but did not actually turn into a real war until 1940.

And then, with limited resources, the German leadership decided to implement the Final Solution to the Jewish problem.

The Chancellor also wanted a Europe that was Slav-free, and tried to kill off all the Slavs for Lebensraum, so Canada recently honoured a German who worked hard at getting rid of all the Slavs in Europe during WWII: didn't Canada and Germany fight together against the USSR in WWII? The Canadian Prime Minister seems to think so.

My friend on the problems in Palestine

"What do you think?" I asked him.

"Half of them call me a kaffir, and the other half call me a goy, so what do I care?"

"What do you think of the IOF?" I asked him.

"What is the IOF? I've heard of the IDF, but never the IOF."

I told him,"The IOF is the Israeli Occupation Force. That's the term used by those who say Israel does not have a Defence Force, they have an Occupation Force."

Sometimes, the New York Times is partly right

 The New York Times had an article, "An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa". It seems there is a new mosquito that thrives in arid climates and it is invading some African cities. The countryside is wet enough that there are lots of mosquitoes, and the healthcare professionals recognise malaria. But in some of the desert cities, there were no mosquitoes, hence no malaria, and healthcare professionals have no idea what they're seeing or how to treat it.

Where I am, in the Arabian desert (sometimes called "The Empty Quarter" since there wasn't much here when the Brits came), there were no mosquitoes. Until about one or two years ago. Now my apartment building is full of them. I read about flypaper when I was a boy, some 60 years ago, but I never saw any. But then I saw some in the supermarket, bought some, put it up, and it was soon covered with mosquitoes.

So the problem is not just in African cities, as the New York Times warned. This new and improved mosquito thrives in lots of arid places where mosquitoes formerly could not manage.

Before the New York Times article, I put the problem down to development: the town where I live and the African cities where the New York Times reported the problem have a lot more people than 20 years ago, so lots more trash that people put out with liquid in it. The New York Times said a big problem is bottle caps that have a tiny bit of liquid, enough for the new mosquito to breed.

But I'm guessing the New York Times are correct that there is, in fact, a new kind of mosquito that is very resistant to lack of water and these new mosquitoes are establishing themselves in places where mosquitoes formerly could not manage. They've certainly established themselves here.

Beaucoup Haram

 I heard a news story condemning Beaucoup Haram today. They misspelled it and mispronounced it, the usual Western media demonising those who do not conform to the official Western media definition of conforming properly to the Rules-based Order.

Beaucoup Haram is a name from Francophone Islam, Beaucoup being a French word and Haram an Islamic word (Haram is an Arabic word written in the Latin alphabet). Haram means 'sinful,' and Beaucoup (having too much) is one of Christianity's Seven Deadly Sins, so the concept is fully in line with Christianity. But the Western media are never going to admit any of that.

Instead, the Western media say the name is 'Boko Haram', meaning education is prohibited by Islam and must be eradicated, so male students and staff are all murdered and female student kidnapped for sex slaves. And so they report in all their stories about 'Boko Haram'.

In fact, in countries where many are starving, the obscenely wealthy spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring in Western educators to teach British, American, French, and International education to their own children. Beaucoup Haram consider this wrong, for some inexplicable reason, and want to shut down all the International schools, send the foreign teachers and administrators home, and have local teachers teach basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and Islam in the local language using materials available very cheaply, so the money being spent by the very rich on International education for a very tiny minority of children can be better used feeding the poor and educating all the children.

It is easy to see why the Western media must demonise Beaucoup Haram. For one thing, if the demands of Beaucoup Haram were accepted, they'd lose all their paying readers in the Francophone Islamic countries in Africa, as well as their advertising revenue from International educational institutions.

Seymour Hersh In the News???

 Seymour Hersh recently wrote that he heard from a US intelligence official that the Ukraine Spring Offensive was a complete failure and defeat of the Ukraine by Russia is imminent.

I tried to Google the paper, but nothing by Seymour Hersh after about 2008 is in any of the Western media, which all uniformly reiterate that the Ukraine Spring Offensive have broken through the Russian defensive lines and are now, finally, making rapid progress at retaking the Donbass and the Crimea: using the newest NATO weaponry they have just been given, the Ukraine military have destroyed more than 90% of all Russian armour and artillery. More than 600,000 Russians have been killed, so Russia are sending young boys and elderly men with "outmoded and inept" Soviet and Czarist weapons against the most advanced NATO weapons, and Russia have no ammunition so they are begging the DPRK and Iran for anything they can supply.

Fortunately, I found the Seymour Hersh article referenced in The New Indian Express. (I am too kanjus makkhi cus to pay to read Seymour on his paid substack outlet.)

[In another strange twist, the US now have two Indians running for president, one of whom strongly supports the Ukraine War and says the US must give the Ukraine whatever they need to win the war with total defeat of Russia, while the other Indian says the US must pull out of the Ukraine ASAP. So I guess the former only reads the Western media and the latter still reads the Indian media?]

As a Jordanian friend explained, one can easily get the truth out of the Western media: just replace every use of the words 'Ukrainian' and 'Ukraine' with 'Russian' and 'Russia', and replace every use of the words 'Russian' and 'Russia' with 'Ukrainian' and 'Ukraine'. And I guess you also need to change 'DPRK and Iran' to 'more NATO nations'.

Basically, NATO managed to cleanse their storage facilities of all their 'obsolete and inept' weapons and dumped them all on the Ukraine, so all those warehouses are now empty and the big defence contractors have new, $trillion contracts to refill those warehouses. While $billions have been spent on the Ukraine, only $millions went into the pockets of Ukrainians, almost all went to the Western (mostly US) Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think_Tank Complex, which was the plan all along. So Mission Accomplished!!!

There are also written and audio records of Joe demanding his cut of the baksheesh paid to Hunter, so all those Republican claims of bribery and corruption are totally unsupported.