Orde Wingate

Submitted by yuval Brandstetter MD (Israel), Jan 19, 2010 at 14:06

A contemporary of Lawrence was Orde Wingate who served the British Mandate in the Land of Israel and became unusually attached to the Hebrew self-defense forces. Orde Wingate was the father of counter-insurgency in the Hebrew-Arab conflict in the 1930's fostering the development of the Hebrew fighting forces which withstood the all-out Arab insurgency trying abrogate the establishment of the Hebrew State.

Lawrence was of a romantic mind that the Arabs might accept the Hebrew tribe taking its place in the Arab dominated region where the Land stood empty and begging for settlement by a technologically inclined people. Wingate saw past these romantic notions, seeing the Arabs for what they were, savage tribesmen driven by the Islamic superiority complex, willing to team up with the Nazis. Had Orde Wingate had his way, Europe's Hebrews would have emigrated to the Land of Israel en masse, suffocating the Arab insurgency under the sheer weight of the well-trained Majority, as it does today.

Unfortunetly Britain being what it is, Perfidous Albion, played its perfidy on the Hebrews and Orde Wingate, sending million of Jews to the Nazi gas chambers, and Wingate to his certain death. Britain has paid, is paying and will pay for this perfidy by becomeing a third rate power (technologically and militarily Israel is a greater power than Britain) and a bedraggled servant to its own Muslim invaders. Thats not something lawrence foresaw.

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