This post is part of a long series I plan to report about Palestine as a country, culture, and humans across multiple communities in hopes that I spread the word about Palestine and what is happening there.

The fact that I am an Arab obviously comes with perceived bias which is a perception that I accept considering that most of the people on this platform are not Arabs. As much as I believe it is something I am able to refute using my own history, I prefer to keep the focus of this series on Palestine itself and let the series speak for itself.

However, considering the aforementioned fact of my identity, I have challenged myself and limited myself to use mostly sources that are outside of the Arab world when it comes to facts. Therefore, all the events mentioned here come from non-Arab sources which you will be able to verify yourself by reading the sources below. In fact, I implore you to check out those sources regardless of the series.

When an alliance is built solely on interests without any humane reasons behind it, it will soon find cracks in its walls. That's what happened between the British and the Zionist movement. At the beginning of the Zionist movement, Britain was Israel's greatest ally as proven by the Balfour Declaration, but at a certain point, Britain wasn't the right ally for the Zionist ambition.

Zionist gangs started performing some of the deadliest terrorist attacks against the British themselves. In 1946, the King David Hotel was blown up by the Irgun gang. That hotel housed the British administration headquarters. Nearly 200 kilograms of explosives were used to bomb the hotel. 91 British people died in that explosion. 1947 saw the Irgun once again bombing the British when they blew up the British Officers' Club in Jerusalem.

Afterwards, a Haganah ship called "Exodus" contained 4500 Holocaust survivors with the intention of entering Palestine. The British refused entry for those Holocaust survivors as they exceeded the number of the 15000 Jewish immigrants allowed annually. They deported the ship to France which ignited riots that led to the execution of three Irgun members. In return, Irgun kidnapped Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice, two British soldiers, and hung them dead near Netanya. That sent a clear message to the British, a message that stated "Leave! You're not needed anymore".

The irony here is the Irgun leader who was listed by the British police as "wanted" was none other than Menachem Begin, that man would later become Israel's Prime Minister, a man who was also a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace. That man was wanted for terrorism by the British army. Just imagine a man who was labelled a terrorist by the British winning the Nobel Prize for Peace.

During the final years of the British mandate, there were over 500 terrorist attacks by Zionists in Palestine. The number of British victims was over 170 British soldiers. Gangs like Irgun were very creative in their terrorist attacks with many innovative styles of thinking, like what? Like Parcel Bombs, which are basically envelopes or packages designed to explode upon opening. It is the Uber Eats of terrorism.

Retaliation

Don't think that these actions went on without a response from the British. The British actually retaliated by attacking 300 Jewish facilities in England. Not only that, the people performing those attacks did so while carrying the Nazi Swastika, the same one that urges the extermination of the Jews. That's what happened in England, less than two years after its war against Nazi Germany, the British raised Nazi slogans and flags.

The ironies aren't over, at the same time those attacks were happening the British Forces in Palestine, which consisted of 75,000 soldiers didn't do anything against the Zionist gangs in Palestine, but actually arrested over 300 Palestinians under the charge of weapon-carrying.

This irony astonished even the Israeli historian Avi Shlaim who pointed it out. He said that the British mandate decided to bear the moral responsibility of opposing a Palestinian state establishment until the very last moment. That was the case until 1947 when the British decided it would no longer lose a soldier in this conflict. It threw that responsibility on the UN.

Eugene Rogan, the English historian said something that I find to be very surreal. He said that the country that said it fought terrorism the most forced the British to leave using terrorism.

Bear in mind, that much of what I say here isn't my words, they are the conclusions of respectable historians whose books are highly rated, many of whom are Israeli. I don't know who else to quote or source to make what I say more credible. Arabic sources, statements from survivors, Arabic books, articles, and descriptions of brutality were actually something I ignored with a heavy heart just to make this series more credible.

With a few parts ahead, mainly two about the "David vs Goliath" myth and the "Only Democracy in the Middle East" myth, it is important to note that this series isn't even about justifying current actions, it doesn't justify Hamas's actions on October 7th, nor does it Al Farhoud in Iraq, or the countless Arab nationalists actions against Jews which turned the Jewish population in Arabic countries from thousands to affectively 0. Those actions will be addressed as they lead to the death of thousands of innocent Jewish people and communities.

However, this series, which I worked very and for a long time to put together, will be mainly focused on everything that predates the establishment of Israel as that era is what contains the highest number of misinformation from odd beliefs that the land was just empty and lacked any signs of civilization or people but was only claimed because Arabs saw Jews taking an empty and unclaimed territory.

In Summary

The British relationship with Zionism is complicated in its details but simple in understanding its principles of because neither really saw a value in the other that extends beyond personal and immediate benefit. Britain outlived its usefulness because the Zionist ambition went beyond the British imagination, it became no longer about just establishing a safe haven for Jews but about establishing borders that were only limited by how far Israeli soldiers could get, those aren't my words either but the words of Israel's first Prime Minister.

Throughout the alliance, Palestinians were simply not respected in any form, proven by Churchill's statement which likened Palestinians, as he did with Black Australians and Native Americans, to "dogs in a manger". They weren't humans, they made the greatest sin of not being of the right colour or from Europe. That's why even as Zionist gangs were attacking British people and as the British were carrying Swastika less than two years after the Second World War, they still saw each other as better allies than Palestinians.

The United States does have a bigger connection with Israel as Israel's story is very similar to that of the United States, it is a story that always overlooks the idea of natives and people with lives and families living in the land before and focusing only on what came after. That's why Israel's withdrawal from the British and into Americans' arms makes sense.

All of those are in fact beautiful stories, they just require you to overlook an unbelievable number of massacres, murders, and a huge amount of innocent bloodshed.

Previous Parts

Follow-up chapters

The Tragic Story of Palestine - Part 11: The "David vs Goliath" Myth (1/2)
The Tragic Story of Palestine - Part 12: The "David vs Goliath" Myth (2/2)
The Tragic Story of Palestine - Final Part: The "Only Democracy in the Middle East" Myth
The Tragic Story of Palestine - Responding to Arguments and Concerns
The Tragic Story of Palestine - "It Was A Hamas Base of Operation"
The Tragic Story of Israel
School Lessons From Gaza

Sources

The Arabs: A History - Eugene Rogan
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappe
Palestine: ...it is something colonial (Decolonizing the mind)
One hundred questions and answers about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Pedro Brieger
Tantura Documentary
Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura - Forensic Architecture
Israel’s 55-year occupation of Palestinian Territory is apartheid – UN human rights expert
"Nakba Law" - Amendment No. 40 to the Budgets Foundations Law
Eye Witnesses Statments
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 2 | Featured Documentary
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 3 | Featured Documentary
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 4 | Featured Documentary
Anatomy of the Israeli mind
Collusion Across The Jordan: King Abdullah, The Zionist Movement, And The Partition Of Palestine - Avi Shlaim

The Tragic Story of Palestine - Part 10: The "Independence" Myth (Final Chapter)

Retaliation

In Summary

Previous Parts

Follow-up chapters

Sources