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On July 18, 1947 a rickety old river steamer from the United States chugged toward the port of Haifa. Although it was designed to hold 400 people, no fewer than 4,500 concentration camp survivors were crammed together in the most unsightly and unsanitary manner imaginable. Renaming their ship the Exodus 1947, they had departed France a few days before. As it neared Haifa, a British armada of six destroyers and one cruiser bore down on the Exodus.

The British captain hailed the refugee ship: “I must warn you that illegal entry of you passengers into Palestine will not be allowed; and your ship will be arrested if you try to do so. We do not want to hurt anyone, but if you resist force will be used…I repeat force will be used if our sailors are attacked. Your leaders and all sensible passengers must stop the hot heads from futile resistance.”


On the deck of this boat, the Exodus, are more than 4,000 people, men, women, and children, whose only crime is that they were born Jews,” the refugees defiantly retorted. “We have nothing against your sailors and officers, but unfortunately they have been chosen to implement a policy to which we shall never acquiesce, for we shall never recognize a law forbidding Jews to enter their country. We are not interested in the shedding of blood, but you must understand that we shall not go to any concentration camp of our own free will, even if it happens to be a British one.”

The battle lines were drawn. The Jews would not surrender; the British would not allow them entry into Palestine. The British captain gave the orders. The armada machine-gunned the Exodus. Still the ship would not surrender. Two destroyers rammed the fragile ship from opposite sides, smashing into its upper deck. When this too failed to deter the refugee steamer, British sailors stormed the ship.

The boarding party fanned out on the old tub and clubbed the captain to death, killed two others, and wounded many more. Still, the ship refused to surrender. Only when the continued ramming of the ship threatened to sink it did the Exodus give finally give in after three hours of fighting. Riddled with holes and listing badly, the ship was towed into Haifa harbor. At the dock, a crowd of several thousand Jews looked on and cheered their brethren while the passengers sang Hatikvah.

His majesty’s government wanted to make an example to discourage further immigration attempts. They placed the refugees on prison ships and sent them back to their port of origin in France.

Source:
https://israelforever.org/interact/blog/battle_lines_drawn_the_jews_would_not_surrender/

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Happy Sunday

Financial dey the name... So na scam

Yawn

Blabber

Agwo

That's good

As long as money remains a legal tender No black nation go get am right.. Na just fact

Self deceit

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show of shame

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Class clown
Vindictiveness

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Stop masturbating....

Planning on getting mine whitened

You knew it was a snake when you picked it up... Enjoy your marriage

Omihanifa:
Don't know why we always wait for disaster to happen first before doing the right thing.

Ordinary 30k can fix this looming danger but the authorities will wait for the damage to be done first before fixing it.

We are blacks.. We are reactive in Nature

I totally agree with David on this

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stupidmods:
Please where can i get the full story?

The biafra story: the making of an African legend by Frederick Forsyth

Hmmm

And the fault is from them

.. According to the writer below... It is very easy to brainwash a typical Northerner

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Ehya...