Monday 13 August 2018

Back To Black?

Black September? We are going as far back as that, are we? If you were old enough to vote in 1972, then you are now at least 64.

In May 1985, Ronald Reagan laid a wreath at the Waffen SS cemetery in Bitburg. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush laid wreaths at Confederate monuments every year that they were the Governors of Arkansas and Texas respectively, and they both sent Presidential wreaths to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington every Confederate Memorial Day. Hell, even Barack Obama did that, although he also sent one to the African American Civil War Memorial. The Queen laid a wreath to the IRA when she went to Dublin. There is no point trying to suggest that it was somehow "a different IRA". A what?

But when Prince William recently stayed at the King David Hotel, then he made no recognition of its history. Just as there is no monument to those, mostly young conscripts, who fell in and for the British Mandate of Palestine. Just as no one ever mentions the USS Liberty. And just as no one ever mentions Israel's arming of Argentina during the Falklands War, an explicit act of anti-British revenge by Menachem Begin.

My friend Hernán Dobry is the author of a groundbreaking book, Operation Israel: The Rearming of Argentina During the Dictatorship, 1976-1983. He owns all of the rights, because his publisher in Argentina has decided against a second edition. But he has updated it based on new research. Its publication in Britain would significantly alter the debate on Israel.

Hernán maintains that his English is not up to translating his text, and my Spanish is certainly nowhere near that good, so we do need to find someone. A major London publishing house is interested, but the question is that of the translation costs, which would be in the region of £5000. Anyone in a position to help in any way, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.

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