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The Nazis were unlucky. Had they started the war seven decades later, Germany won’t suffer a crushing defeat. Media would scream over the Allied body count and call for abandoning alliance with Russians who routinely perpetrated war crimes. Lovers of ancient Japanese culture would rend their shirts protesting from strategic bombing of Japan. American... »

“…the Arabs of western Palestine were thieves by instinct, and those who dwelt close to the Jewish settlements were especially practiced and daring. Throughout the campaign the British policy was to treat these debased people west of the Jordan as devout Moslems… And the Arabs, a crafty race, quick to discern British unwillingness to... »