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The Jewish Brigade on the Gothic Line: the first Jewish army since Roman times
``The further backward you can look, the furher forward you can see,'' Winston Churchill on the need to know history.
By Joe Kirwin
Eighty some years before the Israeli Defense Force became one of the most powerful armies in the Middle East, it was a flelging, disparate group of volunteers that were part of the Zionist movement in what was the Palestine Mandate established by the League of Nations and governed by the United Kingdom. When WWII began after Adolph Hitler began his blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 and Italian Dictator Mussolini joined him by attacking France and the Balkans, some…
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