From SAIGON>>>
England's 30 years on handling the mandate were hardly an "iron fist", either, given they vascillated between one policy favouring the Jews and another ensuring Palestinians were not disenfranchised.
You have an interesting perception of england's handling of whatever
it handled of the dismangled OTTOMAN EMPIRE,,, SAIGON.
I am familiar with yours and ALSO with the perception of jews
who lived in the former OTTOMAN empire and had the honor
of being in the hands of the brits thereafter. To make a
somewhat long and complex story short------THEIR VIEW
POINT is something like a POLAR OPPOSITE OF YOURS .
As far as they are concerned----the entire BRITISH policy focused
on "SATISFYING AND CAJOLING THE ARABS" even to the point
that the brits regularly allowed a STEAM LETTING-----by politely
turning aside when arabs felt a need to engage in pogroms---
and closed the borders of palestine to people as they DIED in
their efforts to make it in. An interesting factoid---both I
(born in the US---but with a maternal grandfather from austria)
and my husband---born in a shariah cesspit
lost relatives to that "MAKE THE ARABS HAPPY AND KEEP
JEWS LOCKED OUT policy of the brits ---during the 1940s---
and then there was the ADEN POGROM 1947 during which
time a claim is made that british soldiers hummed
HAIL BRITANNIA well-----of course perspectives do vary
England's 30 years on handling the mandate were hardly an "iron fist", either, given they vascillated between one policy favouring the Jews and another ensuring Palestinians were not disenfranchised.
You have an interesting perception of england's handling of whatever
it handled of the dismangled OTTOMAN EMPIRE,,, SAIGON.
I am familiar with yours and ALSO with the perception of jews
who lived in the former OTTOMAN empire and had the honor
of being in the hands of the brits thereafter. To make a
somewhat long and complex story short------THEIR VIEW
POINT is something like a POLAR OPPOSITE OF YOURS .
As far as they are concerned----the entire BRITISH policy focused
on "SATISFYING AND CAJOLING THE ARABS" even to the point
that the brits regularly allowed a STEAM LETTING-----by politely
turning aside when arabs felt a need to engage in pogroms---
and closed the borders of palestine to people as they DIED in
their efforts to make it in. An interesting factoid---both I
(born in the US---but with a maternal grandfather from austria)
and my husband---born in a shariah cesspit
lost relatives to that "MAKE THE ARABS HAPPY AND KEEP
JEWS LOCKED OUT policy of the brits ---during the 1940s---
and then there was the ADEN POGROM 1947 during which
time a claim is made that british soldiers hummed
HAIL BRITANNIA well-----of course perspectives do vary