GUEST - 20 Jan 16 - 07:31 AM
"The first mention of WW1 unsurprisingly came from Keith at 9.12am on the 19th."

Ehmmm NO GUEST - First hint and veiled reference to the recently closed WWI thread:

Jim Carroll - 12 Jan 16 - 02:29 PM
"Go off and find one of your "real historians" who sell their books in "real bookshops"

Second

Jim Carroll - 13 Jan 16 - 08:36 AM
"Wot - no historians!!!!! I have no doubt they're waiting in the wings to be called."

Third

GUEST - 14 Jan 16 - 08:13 AM
"From the beginning of World War I, however, part of Palestine's land was owned by absentee landlords who lived in Cairo, Damascus and Beirut. About 80 percent of the Palestinian Arabs were debt-ridden peasants, semi-nomads and Bedouins."

Fourth

Jim Carroll - 17 Jan 16 - 02:48 PM
" - bit like asking General Haig's opinion on the rights and wrongs of WW1, doncha think Keith."

Fifth

GUEST,Musket - 18 Jan 16 - 02:28 AM
"There again, neither do any of the tactics employed in an adjecant thread discussing 100 years ago."

SIXTH

Keith A of Hertford - 19 Jan 16 - 09:12 AM
"Know nothing" referred to the fact that some people attacked my knowledge of WW1 history without having read any history about it themselves. That is as personal as I get."

Seventh

Jim Carroll - 19 Jan 16 - 01:45 PM
"Nothing written for twenty years disagreed any of my points."
Really not going here again Keith"

YOU'VE GOT TO BE JOKING JOM – You and your pals have been baiting at least two threads to try and get it back onto WWI – and as in most things you lot attempt you have failed. Best try something else to get this thread closed as you are being routed by fact, reasoning and logic as usual.