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The World at war but history tells us wars have always existed. Deletion of old files on the computer often remind one of an article once noted. This is from 2014 but it still applies today. It refers to Ireland under UK conquest and also Palestine. Riveting reading especially if spying, espionage and subversive actions are of interest to you. “In 1947 100,000 troops — one-tenth of the military manpower of the entire British empire — were tied down in Palestine, a financial burden that London could not afford.” Source: The Broken Elbow and “Empire of Secrets” by Calder Walton. Quote: “And the IRA’s bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in 1984, which nearly killed British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, could almost have been a carbon copy of the Irgun’s bombing of the King David hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 which killed 91 people. The IRA aimed to wipe out the British cabinet; the Irgun’s target was Britain’s administrative headquarters in Palestine as well as the command post of MI5 and MI6.”

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