10-18-2006, 11:11 PM
Robert wrote:
Well, I wasn't talking about the British conduct. After all compared with the Rotten Romans we British have always been jolly decent chaps, but why not in it's basic sense. At the end of the day it was still the foreign occupation of another country.
Even I had not realized, because the subject is not widely known anymore, that there were still 80,000 British troops in Egypt in 1950. The point was after bringing the Suez canal (OK that was the French), the education etc...etc... (actually I am struggling here to stretch this out, what did Britain actually give to Egypt?) The Egyptians still wanted the British out.
An echo, I am sure you will agree of the famous Monty Python line.
One hundred years earlier the British treatment of rebellious 'natives' in India was pretty bad even by Roman standards.
Graham.
Quote:Can we really compare the British' conduct in Egypt with the occupation of Judaea, samaria and Galilea by the Romans??
Well, I wasn't talking about the British conduct. After all compared with the Rotten Romans we British have always been jolly decent chaps, but why not in it's basic sense. At the end of the day it was still the foreign occupation of another country.
Even I had not realized, because the subject is not widely known anymore, that there were still 80,000 British troops in Egypt in 1950. The point was after bringing the Suez canal (OK that was the French), the education etc...etc... (actually I am struggling here to stretch this out, what did Britain actually give to Egypt?) The Egyptians still wanted the British out.
An echo, I am sure you will agree of the famous Monty Python line.
One hundred years earlier the British treatment of rebellious 'natives' in India was pretty bad even by Roman standards.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
