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Their history and ours
By Neil Faulkner | No Glory in War | January 5, 2014
Military historian Max Hastings and education minister Michael Gove say we should should blame the Germans for World War I and celebrate the victory for ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’. Archaeologist Neil Faulkner disagrees.
Max Hastings has his new book on 1914 out already (Catastrophe: Europe goes to war, 1914). In it he pulls no punches. Even the dustcover proclaims the forthright revisionist message.
‘He [the author] finds the evidence overwhelming that Austria and Germany must accept the principal blame for the outbreak. While what followed was a vast tragedy, he argues passionately against the ‘poets ‘view’ that the war was not worth winning. It was vital to the freedom of Europe, he says, that the Kaiser’s Germany should be defeated.’
UK secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, writing in the Daily Mail, takes the same view:
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war… The ruthless social Darwinism of the German elites, the pitiless approach they took to occupation, their aggressively expansionist war aims and their scorn for the international order all made resistance more than justified.
So there you have it. Just as the rulers of Britain and France argued at the time, it was all Germany’s fault. Never mind that Britain had the largest empire in the world, ruling over one-fifth of the world’s land mass and one-quarter of its people. Never mind that Britain’s navy was almost the twice the size of Germany’s. Never mind that Britain had formed a military alliance with Russia and France, leaving Germany’s rulers feeling corralled and threatened in an arms race they were losing. … continue
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Be aware, this is all part of the new ‘wait them out’/’kick them out’ plan by Israel. They will negotiate when all the areas they really covet are in their hands and the Palestinians have gone.
Bargaining from a position of strength it is called and its all with the approval and assistance of the US. Have no doubts about that.
Hoe proud they must feel in their treatment of an unarmed country of mainly women and children.
The US will never recover its credibility in the eyes of the world. Such perfidy!
2006, My 18 years old son and I entered Eilat from Aqaba heading to Hebron (my birthplace). It took us 12 hours to get to Hebron. We were told to take bus # 161. It was the last stop, it was dark (after 9:30 PM) and it was very scary. I have never been scared as muck as I was then. We were told this was the last stop. Guess what! it was Tel Rumaideh. Spend 45 minutes trying to get out of that damn place, then we end up climbing over a dirt barrier to a Palestinian family home who received us with open arms. I’ll never forget that moment. I have never in worse state of fear but in Tel Rumaideh and never felt so happy but when I yield ‘Is anybody home?” The Bakkrie family replied “tafadhal” I did not know them and they did not know me. Remember it was past 10:00 PM.
This situation as horrible as it is will one day come to pass. Arabs are forgiving but they never forget.