{"id":908,"date":"2010-06-04T02:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2010-06-04T02:13:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:43:19","slug":"history-repeats-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/06\/04\/history-repeats-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"History repeats with a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Echoes
\nof the past in Israeli ship raid<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The Exodus 1947
\ncarried Jewish refugees bound for Palestine<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nThe raid on the Mavi Mamara <\/em>has
\nparallels with another chapter of history in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It was a military raid on a civilian ship bound for Palestine,
\ncarried out in the international waters of the Mediterranean to prevent
\nthe boat from reaching its blockaded destination.
\nWhen the soldiers boarded they met with stiffer resistance than they
\nexpected, and so they used force, killing some of the passengers and
\ninjuring many others.
\nThe commandeered ship was towed to port and the survivors were
\ndetained, before being deported amid a storm of international
\ncondemnation.
\nThe year was 1947, and the boat – the Exodus
\n1947<\/a><\/em>– was carrying Jewish\u00a0refugees seeking to land without the
\npermission of the British military force in charge of Palestine.
\nThe incident, which left three dead, is now\u00a0seen as a key event in
\nthe lead up to the end of the British mandate in Palestine and the
\nestablishment of the state of Israel.
\nIsraeli historians will be hoping that this week’s raid on the
\nhumanitarian flotilla that was bound for Gaza will not be Israel’s own Exodus<\/em>
\nmoment.
\nIt is too early to tell whether the incident will change the way the
\nworld\u00a0sees Israel’s strangling blockade of the Gaza Strip. But the
\nparallels between this week’s events and those of 1947 will be enough to
\nworry Israeli historians.
\nIn 1947, international sympathy for Holocaust-surviving Jews and
\ntheir quest for a homeland crystalised around the treatment of those on
\nboard the Exodus<\/em>, who were eventually sent, in a move of
\nstunning insensitivity given recent history, to detention camps in
\nGermany.
\nIn 2010, it is the residents of Gaza, themselves stateless and
\nsuffering in the aftermath of a brutal conflict, whose plight has been
\nhighlighted by a misjudged military assualt.
\nThe violence on board the Mavi Mamara<\/em> is being seen as a
\nsymptom of the blockade on Gaza, just as the events of 1947 were seen as
\nevidence of a deep unfairness in the treatment of\u00a0refugee\u00a0Holocaust
\nsurvivors.
\nThen, there was a recognition that the status quo was not tenable,
\nand a year later, the state of Israel was founded.
\nAs a result of Israel’s raid on the Mavi Mamara<\/em>,\u00a0it is
\ntoday’s bitter\u00a0status quo that is now\u00a0being questioned.\u00a0It is
\nunclear\u00a0whether the incident will, like the Exodus<\/em> did 63 years
\nago, represent a tipping point, or just another sad milestone on a road
\nto further suffering.
\nThere are as many differences as similarities\u00a0between the two
\nsituations. It would be wrong to make too much of the parallels.
\nBut\u00a0it would also be wrong to disregard them. Tipping points tend not
\nto be\u00a0visible\u00a0until they have been crossed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Echoes of the past in Israeli ship raid By Andrew Wander in Middle East on June 2nd, 2010 Share The Exodus 1947 carried Jewish refugees bound for Palestine The raid on the Mavi Mamara has parallels with another chapter of history in the region. It was a military raid on a civilian ship bound for…
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