The Palestine Precedent: Is Israel Using 1940s Tactics to Expel America From the Middle East?
The Empire’s Shadow - Historical Echoes in the Desert How the insurgent playbook that drove the British from Palestine is being reinterpreted by analysts as a blueprint for a modern campaign to push the United States out of the Middle East, forcing a catastrophic showdown with Iran. The hotel lobby was a swirl of khaki and linen, the clink of glasses barely masking the hum of colonial administration. It was July 22, 1946, at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel . The southern wing housed the nerve center of the British Mandate - the secretariat and military command of an empire that seemed as permanent as the ancient stones upon which the city was built. Within minutes, a thunderous explosion would tear through that wing, collapsing the façade and burying the illusion of British permanence under nine feet of rubble. The attack, carried out by the Irgun , a Zionist paramilitary group, was a pivotal act in a broader insurgent campaign of bombings, assassinations, and psychological warfare th...