Re: Robert, Looking at the Arab cause I see it as badly run since 1948. They have started 5 wars with warriors who cannot read the operating manuals for advanced weapons. Warriors who feel they will go directly to paradise if they die, so they take no care for their own life or the lives of their fellow warriors. This is not the strategy of people who want to win a war.
French Algeria (1830-1962):
In the early morning hours of All Saints' Day, November 1, 1954, FLN maquisards (guerrillas) launched attacks in various parts of Algeria against military installations, police posts, warehouses, communications facilities, and public utilities. From Cairo, the FLN broadcast a proclamation calling on Muslims in Algeria to join in a national struggle for the "restoration of the Algerian state, sovereign, democratic, and social, within the framework of the principles of Islam." The French minister of interior, socialist François Mitterrand, responded sharply that "the only possible negotiation is war." It was the reaction of Premier Pierre Mendès-France, who only a few months before had completed the liquidation of France's empire in Indochina, that set the tone of French policy for the next five years. On November 12, he declared in the National Assembly: "One does not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity and integrity of the Republic. The Algerian departments are part of the French Republic. They have been French for a long time, and they are irrevocably French . . . . Between them and metropolitan France there can be no conceivable secession."
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French Algeria lasted 130 years.... How old is the garrison state of Israel? |
