The Anonymous Widower

What Will Israel Do Next? Military Options In Gaza Explained

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article in The Times.

Like many, I worry about what is going on in Israel and Gaza.

This is a paragraph from the article.

So the more likely scenario is a full-frontal invasion of Gaza, similar to what happened in Lebanon in 1982, when Ariel Sharon, the defence minister at the time, earned worldwide notoriety for the brutality of his tactics but appreciation at home for extirpating the Palestine Liberation Organisation from Israel’s northern neighbour. Yasser Arafat and his men were simply put on boats.

It is probably a solution, that would appeal to many Israelis and expulsion is certainly a policy that has been applied to Jews themselves in the past.

In 1290, Edward I issued the Edict of Expulsion, which is outlined in the first paragraph of its Wikipedia entry.

The Edict of Expulsion was a royal decree issued by Edward I of England on 18 July 1290 expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England. Edward told the sheriffs of all counties he wanted all Jews expelled by no later than All Saints’ Day (1 November) that year. The expulsion edict remained in force for the rest of the Middle Ages. The edict was not an isolated incident, but the culmination of over 200 years of increasing antisemitism in England. The edict was eventually overturned more than 365 years later, during the Protectorate when Oliver Cromwell permitted the resettlement of the Jews in England in 1656.

I am not in any way religious, but my great-great-great-grandfather; Robert, was a Jewish tailor from Konigsberg in East Prussia, which is now Kaliningrad in Russia.

He left Konigsberg, as the law said, that if you were Jewish, male and eighteen, you had to leave. So he embarked on a ship and ended up in London around 1800.

I have one indirect memory of Robert. My father told me, how his grandfather had met him in his later years and he was a small man, who only spoke German and no English. My father’s grandfather was born in 1853 and died at some date after 1911. So as my father was born in 1904, this tale is possible.

And surely, the Nazis’ policies were the ultimate expulsion.

I worry if the Israelis were to repeat the Palestine Liberation Organisation solution for Hamas.

Would some join the queues of migrants trying to get to the UK?

Conclusion

I can see Israel’s actions having repercussions for the UK.

October 11, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | World | Edict of Expulsion, Gaza, Hamas, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Kaliningrad, Lebanon, Religion, War