(Mis)Interpretation

[Kyt]

Some people woill always try to twist history, but this is ridiculous. It concerns the release of documents relating to Jews trying to enter Palastine after the war

Secret documents detail post-WWII debacle (OneNewsNow.com)

A messianic Jewish ministry leader says recent documents released by the British government have confirmed a long-held belief.

Jan Markell has long believed that God judged Britain for its treatment of the Jews. She notes that 400 pages of formerly secret documents -- recently made public by the British National Archives -- reveal how the British government tried to send thousands of Holy Land-bound Jewish Holocaust survivors back to post-war Germany without inflaming world opinion.

But despite the best efforts of early spin-doctors to portray the move in a most sympathetic light, the decision to turn away more than 4,500 Jewish refugees on board the Exodus refugee ship turned into a humanitarian and public relations debacle for Great Britain.

Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, believes Britain has paid a steep price for betraying the Jews in 1947. "At one time [Britain] had so many nations and colonies that the sun never set on [the British Empire]," she recalls. "Today [Britain] is a broken and fractured empire, and I believe it is partly because of the way that she dealt with the Jews ... during the Holocaust and post-Holocaust," says Markell.

And the pro-Israel advocate warns this story ought to serve as reminder to supporters of Israel today. "It should remind us that the world to this day continues to hate the Jewish people," she continues, "because they still are God's chosen people no matter what the Muslim world wants to do to annihilate them. [The Jews] will not go away."

Markell argues the United States should take special heed to this story, considering its continual efforts to force the Jewish people to turn over their covenant land in order to create a Palestinian "state."

[Gibbo]

In 1947 we were bankrupt & possessed an empire that was costing us money that we didn't have & that we didn't need. We voluntarily gave the colonies independence & are now rich. Can we have some more punishment like that please.

[Antipodean Andy]

I could make a number of comments here but they wouldn't be pleasant!