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Churchill: "I am, of course, a Zionist, and have been ever since the Balfour Declaration."

submitted by mememeyou to History 3.8 yearsAug 5, 2021 18:29:51 ago (+22/-0)     (archive.vn)

https://archive.vn/zhjiY

NYT: "The reader learns that Churchill was also an advocate of policies usually identified with the Labor Party: a national health service, wider access to education, taxation of excess profits and profit-sharing. In fact, during his first public speech in 1897, three years before he entered Parliament, Churchill said he looked forward to the day when laborers would become shareholders in the businesses where they worked. Rather generously, Mr. Gilbert maintains that Churchill was "a consistent and lifelong liberal in outlook."

One of the values of this single-volume biography is that certain of Churchill's lifelong attitudes emerge more clearly. Mr. Gilbert, who is also the author of major works on Auschwitz, the Holocaust and Arab-Israeli conflicts, is especially strong in tracking Churchill's personal involvement in Middle Eastern affairs, his support for an identifiable Jewish brigade in the British Eighth Army in Italy during World War II and his influence in supporting the creation of a Jewish state after the war. For these views he sometimes found himself at odds with his own Conservative Party, but as usual, he stuck to his guns. Again and again, the author illustrates Churchill's fortitude and long-range sense of history.

During the crisis between Egypt and Israel in 1956, for example, Churchill informed a wavering President Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I am, of course, a Zionist, and have been ever since the Balfour Declaration. I think it is a wonderful thing that this tiny colony of Jews should have become a refuge to their compatriots in all the lands where they were persecuted so cruelly, and at the same time established themselves as the most effective fighting force in the area. I am sure America would not stand by and see them overwhelmed by Russian weapons, especially if we had persuaded them to hold their hand while their chance remained."


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[ - ] AndrewBlazeIt 7 points 3.8 yearsAug 5, 2021 18:55:38 ago (+7/-0)

No shit - fat drunk who fucked kids

[ - ] mememeyou [op] 5 points 3.8 yearsAug 5, 2021 19:14:25 ago (+5/-0)

haha alright. Guy Burgess - 'Winston Churchill's original Sandhurst file, for example, described him as an idle layabout and a confirmed sodomite who was a menace to the younger boys.' https://steemit.com/news/@rosalinde/winston-churchill-was-serial-pedophile-who-liked-buggering-young-boys

[ - ] yesiknow 5 points 3.8 yearsAug 5, 2021 20:46:53 ago (+5/-0)

Another one that should have been strangled in his crib.

After he created the slaughter at Gallipoli in WW1, he was considered washed up and an embarrassment to Brits. The jews dug him up and pushed him forward for the next war. Prick.

[ - ] lord_nougat 2 points 3.8 yearsAug 5, 2021 21:08:32 ago (+2/-0)

Well, aside from being a mass murdering fat drunkard, in context he COULD have been saying that he felt that jews needed their own homeland so they'd get the fuck out of his. But that might just be my biased interpretation of that quote.

[ - ] beece 0 points 3.8 yearsAug 6, 2021 08:32:41 ago (+0/-0)

Still rewriting history, Churchill started bombing German cities, the Germans retaliated with the "London Blitz". They seemed to have forgotten that important part of the story in your link. (thanks for posting an archive version)

" he had witnessed the destruction caused by the Luftwaffe in London during the blitz, followed by British bombers retaliating against Dresden and other German targets and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American planes."