British Military Quotes
small Jewish Zionist groups who unlike the majority Jewish organizations in Palestine used terror tactics After the 2nd World War, European Jews who had survived the holocaust were trying to emigrate to Palestine. The Arabs wanted all the Jews who were there to be gone. The English were caught in the middle and tried to limit the Jewish immigration. Most Jewish organizations worked to smuggle European Jews into Palestine but 2 small ones resorted to a type of terrorism. However, as the ambassador observed there was a large moral distinction between the terrorism of those 2 small Jewish Organizations and the current Palestinian terrorists. The important moral distinction is that the Jewish terrorists were fighting to establish their state with no program or desire to prevent Arabs from having their own state, but the Hamas terrorists of Palestine (not the Fatah Government) want not only to establish a Palestinian State but to destroy the Jewish State (Israel) and murder all the Jews that they can as their charter requires.
1776 at the Battle of Bunker Hill This was the first formal battle of the American Revolution. The British officers perceived the American colonials as a rag-tag collection of men with no experience or skill at arms. Looking for glory they led from the front and if nothing else the Colonials were superb marksmen who picked the officers off easily. After that battle, British officers were more prudent and respectful of the revolutionaries.
