The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia in Rome.
The Indonesian rupiah was introduced.
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Showing posts with label Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. Show all posts
Saturday, October 31, 2026
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Tuesday, July 23, 1946. Last of the POWs sent home.
The United States released the last of 375,000 German POWs it had held in the United States, embarking 1,385 of them on the General Yates after transporting them from Camp Shanks, New York.
About ten POWs who had escaped during the war remained at large and were never accounted for.
The Zaibatsu, the Japanese corporations that had financed Japan's war effort, were abolished.
Many of them would be reconstituted starting in 1953, including Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo.
Frances Ramsden and her standard poodles were on the cover of Look.
Ramsden was a model who had a very brief acting career, appearing in only three films. She later married Egyptian millionaire Adel Sabit, a cousin of King Farouk, but had to abandon Cairo due to that association. She divorced in 1975 and returned to California, where she spent the remainder of her life, passing away in 2000 at the age of 80.
The prior day's bombing of the King David Hotel made the front page of American newspapers.
It's interesting that the press referred to the Irgun as "terrorists". The label is appropriate in varying degrees, but the attack on the King David Hotel might have been a legitimate attack, in the context of a legitimate war, if this war is regarded as that. Terrorism itself is never justified.
The original goal of the mission was to destroy materials that identified those who had participated in the destruction of bridges a bit earlier in the uprising.
Of course, the ultimate question is whether the uprising itself was justified. I don't feel that it was. It's certainly the case that the failure to accommodate both the Arab and Jewish populations has resulted in 80 years of strife, although such an accommodation may not have been possible.
United Airlines addressed its customers.
United is in the news again today, looking for a solution for its customers who do not wish to fly into Insurrectionist Seditionist Narcissist International Airport in Palm Beach.
An interesting surplus item.
Monday, July 22, 1946. The bombing of the King David Hotel.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Monday, July 22, 1946. The bombing of the King David Hotel.
Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem killing 91 people. The hotel was the location of the central offices of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine, although it was also still used as a hotel.
When originally planned, Irgun had Haganah's approval, but this had been withdrawn, unbeknownst to the Irgun,
The 91 dead were 28 British nationals, 41 Palestinian Arabs, 17 Jewish residents, and five hotel guests from other nations.
Actor Danny Glover was born in San Francisco, where he currently resides. A great actor, he is currently afflicted with Alzheimers.
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Sunday, July 21, 1946. Rationing bread.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, 1948, 1950s, 1954, Aircraft, boats and ships, Bolivia, Food, It was because of World War Two, Rationing, U.S. Navy, United Kingdom
Monday, June 29, 2026
Saturday, June 29, 1946. Operation Agatha.
The British Army launched Operation Agatha, the arrest of suspected Jewish terrorist in Palestine. The Haganah escalated terrorist attacks in response.
It was a Saturday.
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Friday, June 28, 1946. First Hāfu (ハーフ).
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Sunday, June 16, 1946. Night of the Bridges.
The Hagenah took out eleven highway and railway bridges, while causing no causalities, disrupting mandatory Palestine's communications with neighboring states.
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Friday, June 14, 1946. No nukes.
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