tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post2333408947812325654..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Churchill wanted to bomb Khartoum in the early 1950sUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-25466931209671538932021-07-25T20:21:07.995+03:002021-07-25T20:21:07.995+03:00I know rather little about the history of Palestin...I know rather little about the history of Palestine - did the British warn the Arab states that they would lose a war? I am not sure they did.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-75395121169839520542021-07-25T19:52:55.302+03:002021-07-25T19:52:55.302+03:00The coup took place because Farouk had lost the wa...The coup took place because Farouk had lost the war with the Jews in Palestine. Had he not attacked, Israel would have been much smaller and he might have kept his throne but it is hard to imagine the Arabs not going to war, a war the British knew the Jews would win.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-42502007198531805122021-07-25T18:25:43.502+03:002021-07-25T18:25:43.502+03:00Perhaps it could not have been - but there was not...Perhaps it could not have been - but there was not even a real effort to stop it. And, as always, the effort to build "modern institutions" was a mistake - it was the modern institutions (such as the military) that turned on the King.Paul Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18376632035812989444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-65879658310705799842021-07-25T15:44:21.089+03:002021-07-25T15:44:21.089+03:00I was in Egypt a while back and should blog about ...I was in Egypt a while back and should blog about it. It wasn't easy to stop the coup that overthrew King Farouk. How do you think it should have been prevented?Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-36763153504420371312021-07-25T15:39:32.926+03:002021-07-25T15:39:32.926+03:00https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Nile/cr...https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Nile/crYsEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Churchill,+++Khartoum,+Munich+is+situated+on+the+Nile%E2%80%99&pg=PA121&printsec=frontcoverPolitical Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-76211065545419866332021-07-25T11:35:53.496+03:002021-07-25T11:35:53.496+03:00First of all President Eisenhower threatened no su...First of all President Eisenhower threatened no such thing. What was "wreaking the British economy" was, in part, the artificial exchange rate to the Dollar - so had the exchange rate been allowed to fall Britain would have been benefitted (the same could be said of the 1920s). What the American Administration might have have said is that they would not take action to prop up the artificial exchange rate - that they would allow other people (not themselves) to sell Pounds and buy Dollars, to which the British government should have said "thank you very much indeed".<br /><br />As for Churchill - he OPPOSED destroying the tomb of the "Mahdi" in the 1890s, and there is no reason to suppose he had a different opinion in the 1950s. Giving air support to British bases that were under attack (not bombing the city in general) is what he meant. <br /><br />Eden was a fool to pull British forces out of the Canal Zone in 1954 (trusting in a piece of paper from a dictator - someone who should never have been allowed to take power in Egypt in the first place). And had British forces not been pulled out of the Canal Zone (and had the Constitutional government in Egypt been supported) then they would never had to have been sent back in 1956.<br /><br />As for "the swine" - that is obvious, Diocletian was a swine. As soon as anyone came into his presence they were made to grovel on their belly - as if he was a Persian despot rather than a Roman Emperor. Paul Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18376632035812989444noreply@blogger.com