The chasm between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Independence Day is narrower than we believe. Had the Allies not defeated Erwin Rommel – “Hitler’s general” – in North Africa, the Nazis would have conquered the British Mandate and exterminated the Yishuv, the pre-State Jewish population. But at the end of the day, the Jews of the British Mandate were alone. Despite British colonialism – the epitome which was the Mandate – by 1945, 30,000 Jews in Palestine enlisted in the British forces. But at the end of the day, the Jews of the British Mandate were alone.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 17, 2021 18:33 UTC