Captain Allen
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Lawyer & Historian with Passion for Jewish History/Identity Seeking to Empower Jews and the Curious from all Backgrounds with Knowledge and Analytical Skills
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Khomeini’s fateful 1979 flight from Paris to Tehran that unleashed 47 years of oppression and terror. France gave him asylum and a place to run the revolution to overthrow the Shah. When the time came, the French chartered this Air France flight for him and his entourage.
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Listen to Saudi Prince Bandar give the WHOLE STORY of being with Arafat as he refused the post-Camp David Clinton Parameters (accepted by Israel) for a Palestinian state. “I wanted to cry. My heart was burning at how the opportunity was lost again … this is what happened.”
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When Bill Clinton tells young people that Yasser Arafat walked away from a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem, “they can’t believe it … it’s not even on their radar screen. They can’t even imagine that happened.” Be informed. Learn some basic history 🙏
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Israel withdrew every soldier and Jewish civilian from Gaza forcefully in Sept 2005. Within hours, this is what Gazans did to the synagogues they left behind. Mahmoud Abbas had pledged to protect the sites. In a shock to no one, his actions did not match his words. And Hamas? They made sure to hold celebratory prayers inside first — a clear display of dominance — before the destruction and torching began. Israel’s intentions were pure, but unilateral concessions without a reliable partner for peace proved disastrous and culminated with the October 7 Massacre.
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On This Day — May 25, 1948 They put a bullet in the back of his head. The man they executed that day was Witold Pilecki — the only person in history who voluntarily walked into Auschwitz. In 1940, this Polish cavalry officer deliberately got himself arrested during a Nazi roundup in Warsaw. Using a false identity, he entered hell as prisoner #4859. For two and a half years, Pilecki lived as a starving skeleton in striped rags while secretly building a resistance network inside the camp. He smuggled out the first detailed eyewitness reports of the Nazi death machine to the Allies — gas chambers, selections, medical experiments, and the systematic murder of Jews. While he was there, more than 1,000 Jews per day were being gassed and burned. At its peak in 1944, the killing rate reached more than 6,000 per day. He saw it all. He documented it all. He risked everything so the world would know. In April 1943, Pilecki escaped by overpowering a guard at a bakery outside the wire. He rejoined the fight, battled in the Warsaw Uprising, and later resisted the Soviet occupation of Poland. For his courage, the communist regime tortured him, staged a show trial, and executed him on May 25, 1948. One of the great heroes of the 20th century. Remember his name: Witold Pilecki.
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Four days before Israel declared independence, Golda Meir made a desperate secret trip to Amman. Disguised as an Arab woman, she met with King Abdullah of Transjordan — an Arab leader who acknowledged Jewish rights to the Land & who many hoped may choose peace. Abdullah had long kept private contacts with Zionist leaders. He dreamed of a Greater Syria under Hashemite rule and saw cooperation with the Jews as strategically useful. In their November 1947 meeting, he had hinted at possible accommodation. But by May 1948, the Arab world was locked in rejection. Abdullah told Golda he was now “one of several” — no longer free to act alone. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon were all committed to destroying the Jewish state the moment it was born. He still wanted peace with his Jewish neighbors. But he felt trapped. Before they parted, the King looked at Golda and said these remarkable words: “I believe with all my heart that divine providence has brought you back here, restoring you to the Semitic East which needs your knowledge and initiative. Conditions are now difficult, but be patient.” It was a poignant, almost prophetic farewell. King Abdullah paid for his pragmatism with his life. On July 20, 1951, while visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, he was assassinated by a local Arab gunman acting on orders from the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi war criminal, Amin al-Husseini. Peace with Jews was considered treason. This became a tragic pattern: moderate Arab leaders who dared acknowledge Jewish rights or seek accommodation were sidelined, exiled, or killed. From 1948 onward, maximalist rejectionism has been rewarded while moderation has been punished. Yet the Jewish state survived — and thrived anyway.
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This Day (May 7) in 1945, Nazi Germany finally surrendered. The same day, Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini fled Berlin by plane. Here’s how he escaped justice for his war crimes (spoiler alert: blame France again!). First, the Mufti landed his plane in Bern, Switzerland and begged for asylum. The Swiss said no. They detained him and immediately handed him over to French authorities. What happened next is one of the most brazen post-war scandals in modern history. Instead of standing trial, the Mufti was placed under “house arrest” in a luxurious villa just outside Paris. For an entire year he lived in comfort, shaved his iconic beard, wore Western suits, and moved about with virtual freedom while Britain and Yugoslavia demanded his extradition as a war criminal. France refused to hand him over. Then, on May 29, 1946, using a fake passport in the name of Ma’ruf al-Dawalibi, the Mufti simply walked out, boarded a TWA flight to Cairo ... and vanished. The French Foreign Minister didn’t even realize he was gone for more than 12 days. In Egypt, he was greeted as a conquering hero. King Farouk gave him protection and luxury. The Muslim Brotherhood hailed him as “the Arab hero and symbol of jihad.” No trial. No shame. No consequences. And his legacy, unfortunately, endured. As this documentary clip puts it: “The Grand Mufti's place as leader of the Palestinian Arabs was eventually taken by a relative ... Yasser Arafat. In August 2002, Arafat gave an interview in which he referred to al-Husseini as a symbol of Palestinian Arab resistance. He called him simply, ‘a hero.’” This is how war criminals become legends to be emulated and revered — when a likeminded ideology protects and lionizes them.
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On This Day — June 5, 1967 F**k Around: Arabs spent weeks boasting they would annihilate Israel. Egypt massed troops on the border, imposed a blockade, ordered UNEF out & promised destruction. Jordan & Syria joined. Radio Cairo called on Arabs everywhere to kill Jews. Find Out: At 7:14 a.m., the entire Israeli Air Force (except 12 planes left for home defense) took off in Operation Focus. They caught the Egyptian pilots eating breakfast. By 11:05 a.m., 180 Egyptian planes were destroyed on the ground. Within hours, most of the Jordanian and half the Syrian air forces were also wiped out. Then the real shock: - Israel overran the entire Sinai Peninsula and reached the Suez Canal in four days. - Despite no element of surprise, Israeli forces recaptured all of Judea and Samaria, including the Old City of Jerusalem. - In brutal fighting, they seized the strategically vital Golan Heights, including Mount Hermon — “the eyes and ears of Israel.” On June 7, Colonel Motta Gur’s paratroopers entered the Old City. For the first time in 2,000 years, Jewish soldiers stood at the Western Wall. The shofar was blown. Even hardened, secular soldiers broke down and wept with joy. The Jewish people were home again. 776 Israeli soldiers fell — heroes who turned near-certain destruction into one of the most legendary military victories in history. The Arabs had spent 19 years vowing to erase the Jewish state. They F****d Around. They Found Out. After two millennia of exile and 19 years of encirclement on borrowed time, the Jewish people reclaimed their ancient capital, reunited their ancestral homeland, and reminded the world in six miraculous days what a determined nation can achieve when its back is against the wall. Am Yisrael Chai.
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On This Day — June 4, 1967 Israel stood completely alone — betrayed by its allies and facing annihilation. France — Israel’s main arms supplier — imposed a total weapons embargo on Israel at the direct order of President Charles de Gaulle. Already, every major Western power, including the United States, had Israel under a weapons embargo. The Israeli Cabinet met in emergency session as massive Arab armies gathered on its borders. Egypt alone had nearly 100,000 troops and 1,000 tanks in Sinai, with Jordan, Syria, and Iraq adding more forces. Arab leaders were openly calling for Israel’s destruction. A cable from U.S. President Lyndon Johnson made the situation brutally clear: “Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go it alone.” Israel got the message. With no strategic depth, vastly outnumbered, and abandoned by its supposed friends, the Cabinet voted 12–2 to launch a preemptive strike on the largest Arab military, Egypt (which had already committed an act of war by closing the Straits of Tiran). The war would begin the next morning. The mood across Israel was somber and resolute. Parks were dug up for mass graves. Schools became bomb shelters. Teenagers filled sandbags. The entire nation understood it faced an existential threat — a potential second Holocaust. Yet on June 5, Israel acted. This was the moment a small, isolated nation chose survival over waiting for the mercy of others. Never forget how alone Israel truly was on the eve of the Six Day War.
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This day (July 1) in 1946, a 9-year-old Polish boy left home without telling his parents — and within days his fabricated story helped spark one of the most savage post-Holocaust pogroms in Europe. In Kielce, rumors spread that Jews were holding Polish children in a cellar. Police and soldiers disarmed the Jews in the building on Planty Street, then stood by — or joined — as a mob beat, stabbed, and shot them in the streets. At least 42 Jews were murdered in broad daylight, including women, children, camp survivors, and the local Jewish committee chairman, shot while pleading for help. Wounded victims were robbed even on the way to the hospital. This was long-standing antisemitism mixed with the widespread belief that “the Jews are finally gone” and their homes and property now belonged to others. Poland had become the world’s largest Jewish graveyard. Similar attacks happened elsewhere. Across Europe, Holocaust survivors returned only to find themselves homeless and unwanted. Many faced renewed violence or rejection. Hundreds of thousands ended up trapped in miserable Displaced Persons camps, with nowhere to go. The one place that still wanted them was Mandatory Palestine — yet the British continued blocking Jewish immigration, even for survivors, despite massive international pressure. One small lie on July 1 helped expose much larger truths: for Europe’s Jews, the nightmare did not end in 1945; and only Jewish sovereignty ensures “never again” is not just a slogan, but a promise.
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There was no preemptive strike on Jordan. The morning of June 5, 1967, Israel begged King Hussein to stay out of the war: if Jordan did not attack, Israel would not attack Jordan. If Jordan listened, the “West Bank” & the Old City of Jerusalem would still be in Arab hands today. But Jordan didn’t listen. Jordan had already mobilized 11 brigades on the border and invited Iraqi forces to join them. At 9 a.m., they began indiscriminate shelling of Jewish Jerusalem. Israel still held fire, hoping it was only symbolic support for Egypt. At 12:30 p.m., Jordanian troops invaded and seized the UN headquarters in a key strategic position. Only then did Israel respond. Israel went to war against Egypt to prevent its own annihilation. It had no plans to recapture Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) or the Old City. Jordan forced its hand. They f****d around. They found out.
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With four rickety planes patched together largely from Nazi spare parts, a handful of mostly American volunteers helped save Tel Aviv and give birth to the State of Israel. On May 14, 1948, as David Ben-Gurion declared independence, five Arab armies invaded the fledgling Jewish state. Egypt’s forces pushed up the coast toward Tel Aviv. Israel had almost no air force. Enter the Machalniks: thousands of volunteers from abroad — many American WWII veterans, Jewish and non-Jewish — who answered the call. They evaded the U.S. arms embargo and FBI scrutiny, risked their citizenship, and smuggled planes through secret networks, often via Czechoslovakia. The planes were Avia S-199s — Czech-built versions of the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, powered by mismatched bomber engines. Dubbed the “Messer” (knife) by Israelis, they were temperamental and dangerous to fly. On May 29, American pilot Lou Lenart (Hungarian-born U.S. Marine veteran) led the IAF’s first combat mission. With three others — including future president Ezer Weizman — they bombed and strafed the Egyptian column in a daring attack. The stunned Egyptians, convinced Israel had no air power, halted their advance on Tel Aviv. One plane was lost to anti-aircraft fire, but the mission succeeded in buying critical time. These volunteers formed the backbone of the early IAF. They flew fighters, bombers, and transports, helped wrest control of the skies, and delivered supplies to besieged areas. From scrap metal, daring smuggling runs, and unbreakable will came the foundation of one of the world’s most formidable air forces. This remarkable true story is a timeless reminder of how a people fighting for survival with ingenuity and resolve can overcome even the longest odds. ✈️🇮🇱
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How Khomeini conned Iranians. He promised “freedom and independence for all” plus free electricity, water, buses, and housing. He then installed Sharia, purged all moderates, leftists, and secular “allies,” enforced veiling, executed opponents, and made himself supreme leader.
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Yasser Arafat was the first “foreign leader” to visit Khomeini, just one week after he returned to Tehran and declared victory for the Islamic Revolution. Arafat was greeted as a hero. Khomeini kissed him on the cheek, and Arafat proclaimed, “Today Iran, tomorrow Palestine!”
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Awkward for the Red-Green Alliance Karl Marx visited Palestine & wrote in 1854 Jerusalem had 8k Jews and 4k Muslims, but the “Muslims are the masters … nothing equals the misery & suffering of Jews in Jerusalem. They are the constant objects of Muslim oppression & intolerance.”
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On This Day — May 18, 1967 18 days before the Six Day War, Arab leaders openly broadcast their planned extermination of Israel. Egypt’s official Voice of the Arabs declared: “The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence." Two days later, with Syrian troops already massed on Israel’s border, Defense Minister Hafez al-Assad declared: “I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.” Cairo Radio the next day: “This is our chance, Arabs, to deal Israel a mortal blow of annihilation, to blot out its entire presence in our holy land.” Extermination. Annihilation. Annihilation again. They said it loudly, proudly, and repeatedly on state radio — a little more than two weeks before the war. Not hidden plans. Not vague threats. Explicit genocidal intent, 22 years after the Holocaust. Yet to this day, people still blame Israel for starting the war. The truth: Israel faced imminent annihilation from a Soviet-backed Arab alliance that had mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, closed the Straits of Tiran, and expelled UN peacekeepers. Under customary international law, a preemptive strike against an imminent existential threat is not only justified — it is legal. Israel struck first only against Egypt, the ringleader. It begged Jordan’s King Hussein to stay out of the fighting. Hussein ignored the plea, joined the war, and lost the "West Bank" and Old City of Jerusalem in the process. Israel didn’t want that war. It simply refused to die in it. While the world did nothing, Israel acted alone — and in six days destroyed the genocidal threat to its existence.
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How is it that UNRWA has refused to resettle 700,000 Palestinian Arab refugees after 75 years whereas UNKRA - created for Korean refugees - managed to resettle 3.1 million refugees in only three years and at one quarter of UNRWA's budget? @einatwilf explains:
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![On this day — June 23, 1944 At the Holocaust's peak — as Nazis liquidated nearly 500k Hungarian Jews (over 434,000 deported to Auschwitz in May–July 1944, ~330,000 gassed immediately, up to 10k–12k per day) — Jewish leaders begged the Allies to bomb Auschwitz & its rail lines. This was the exact date the U.S. War Department issued its cold rejection, signed by Major General Thomas T. Handy: “It is impractical ... [it] could be executed only by diversion of considerable air support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive operations. The War Department fully appreciates the humanitarian importance ... but decided the most effective way to help is to defeat the Axis powers.” The excuses and the obscenity: - American bombers were already striking targets less than 5 miles from the gas chambers. - Requests came from the World Jewish Congress, the War Refugee Board, and escapees Rudolf Vrba & Alfred Wetzler. - No genuine feasibility study was ever conducted. Hundreds of thousands could have been saved. Senator George McGovern, who flew B-24 bomber missions near Auschwitz, later said: “I think we should have gone after Auschwitz and taken our chances on killing some of the people there who were innocent but knocking out those gas chambers and the mass weapons of death. I also think it would have helped if we had bombed the railroad lines leading to Auschwitz. The purpose of those rail lines was to carrying human beings to their death.” They knew. They had the capability. They chose not to. Today, we draw the only lesson history permits: When the lives of Jews hang in the balance, Jewish sovereignty is not optional — it is the difference between survival and slaughter. Never again will the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews be left in the hands of others who weigh the value of Jewish lives against “decisive operations.” The Jewish state exists so that never again will Jews be helpless, having to beg strangers to save them while Jewish children burn.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2069405118169292898/amplify_video_thumb/2069208169109422080/img/aRZjz3qUfgOWCwQB.jpg)
On this day — June 23, 1944 At the Holocaust's peak — as Nazis liquidated nearly 500k Hungarian Jews (over 434,000 deported to Auschwitz in May–July 1944, ~330,000 gassed immediately, up to 10k–12k per day) — Jewish leaders begged the Allies to bomb Auschwitz & its rail lines. This was the exact date the U.S. War Department issued its cold rejection, signed by Major General Thomas T. Handy: “It is impractical ... [it] could be executed only by diversion of considerable air support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive operations. The War Department fully appreciates the humanitarian importance ... but decided the most effective way to help is to defeat the Axis powers.” The excuses and the obscenity: - American bombers were already striking targets less than 5 miles from the gas chambers. - Requests came from the World Jewish Congress, the War Refugee Board, and escapees Rudolf Vrba & Alfred Wetzler. - No genuine feasibility study was ever conducted. Hundreds of thousands could have been saved. Senator George McGovern, who flew B-24 bomber missions near Auschwitz, later said: “I think we should have gone after Auschwitz and taken our chances on killing some of the people there who were innocent but knocking out those gas chambers and the mass weapons of death. I also think it would have helped if we had bombed the railroad lines leading to Auschwitz. The purpose of those rail lines was to carrying human beings to their death.” They knew. They had the capability. They chose not to. Today, we draw the only lesson history permits: When the lives of Jews hang in the balance, Jewish sovereignty is not optional — it is the difference between survival and slaughter. Never again will the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews be left in the hands of others who weigh the value of Jewish lives against “decisive operations.” The Jewish state exists so that never again will Jews be helpless, having to beg strangers to save them while Jewish children burn.
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Bill Clinton describes the incredible deal for Palestinian statehood in 2000 & he does not waver on who’s to blame for the deal’s failure - Yasser Arafat. If a state next to Israel, not instead of Israel, was acceptable, Palestine would be celebrating its 25th Independence Day.
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