Haviv Rettig Gur
Britain helped corral the Jews of Europe into the gas chambers with its White Paper and placed an arms embargo on us not when we were strong, but when we were at our most desperate and weak. Britain promised the Jews support for statehood - right up until they shut the doors to
Captain Allen
Britain suspending arm sales to Israel as it fights a war of survival reminds me today is the 85th anniversary of Britain firing its first shots (& claiming its first victims) of WWII. It was not Nazis the British killed, but Jewish refugees fleeing certain death for their homeland in Eretz Israel. It was this day (Sept 2) in 1939 that the Tiger Hill ship carrying 1,400 Jewish refugees - fleeing mainly Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia - was intercepted by the British Royal Navy off the coast of Tel Aviv. The Brits opened fire and murdered three of those desperate Jewish refugees. The Tiger Hill first sailed from Romania a month earlier, and the Jews on board were already malnourished. After several weeks, several of the refugees came down with dysentery. When they could finally see salvation - the beach of Tel Aviv - in the only land that wanted them, the British stole that hope from them. With the Tiger Hill in sight, Jews gathered on the beach to welcome and help the refugees (see photo below). About 200 of the passengers managed to make it ashore and blend in with the crowd to avoid capture. The remaining 1,200 refugees were arrested and confined as prisoners to the Sarafand detention camp. The British were “merely” enforcing the 1939 White Paper - which was declared to be in violation of their Mandate by the League of Nations. The White Paper was a British capitulation to Arab terrorism and an appeasement of the demands of the evil Mufti to end Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel. The British enforcement of the illegal White Paper was, of course, not the same as the Nazis who shot, tortured, starved, and gassed six million Jews. However, by closing the gates of Eretz Israel to Jewish immigration when it was needed most, the British helped seal the fates of far too many Jewish victims of Nazi atrocities. #Education #Israel #Palestine
