Brit-Am Historical Reports (25 July 2016, 19 Tammuz, 5776)
Contents:
1. The Proposed Union of Britain and France.
FRANGLETERRE: THE UNION THAT COULD HAVE BEEN
2. Did Otto Skorenzy Eventually Work for Israel?
THE STRANGE CASE OF A NAZI WHO BECAMEÂ AN ISRAELIÂ HITMAN
3. Amnon Goldberg: Astronomy Revised. Is the Earth Really the Center of the Universe?
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1. The Proposed Union of Britain and France.
FRANGLETERRE: THE UNION THAT COULD HAVE BEEN
https://thedailybeagle.net/2015/04/27/frangleterre-the-union-that-could-have-been/
Extracts:
The distinction between the English and French realms began to be defined during the course of the Hundred Years War. During this long series of conflicts between the English House of Plantagenet and the French House of Valois there was a brief union of the two crowns, from 1422-29, under Henry VI of England who was also crowned King of France (his father Henry V had also been de facto King of France). However, following the fight-back, led by Joan of Arc, by 1453 England had lost all of her French territory except the city of Calais. By January 1558 the French had retaken Calais, kicking the English off the continental mainland entirely. Despite their total loss of all territory in France, monarchs of England would continued to be crowned as 'King/Queen of England, Ireland, and France' until 1807.
By June 1940 France and Britain were facing total defeat in the Battle of France....Monnet and Morton drafted a proposal for a Franco-British Union stating that:
'France and Great Britain shall no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union. The consultation of the union will provide for joint organs of defence, foreign, financial and economic policies. Every citizen of France shall enjoy immediate citizenship of Great Britain, every British subject shall become a citizen of France.'
It was submitted to an initially sceptical Churchill who put it to the Cabinet on 15 June (along with a similar proposal from Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery). On 16 June the British Cabinet approved the proposal for a union. Charles de Gaulle also approved of the proposal and acted as an intermediary with Reynaud who also supported the union. ... Marshal Petain, who would head the Vichy government that collaborated with the Nazi occupiers, declared that he would rather France were 'a Nazi province than a British dominion' and that the plan was nothing but a last-minute attempt by the British to 'steal' France's colonies. Reynaud was therefore forced to resign and Petain formed a new government that signed an armistice with Germany on the 21 June.
.... it emerged in 2007 that during the Suez war [1956] French Prime Minister Guy Mollet had proposed a union between Britain and France under the belief that their combined military and economic muscle would allow both countries to keep their place in the world. Under the proposal Elizabeth II would be the head of state of this new Franco-British Union and that the military, monetary, economic, and political policy would be unified. An alternative proposal was also submitted to the British government that France join the Commonwealth. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden rejected both proposals. ...
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2. Did Otto Skorenzy Eventually Work for Israel?
THE STRANGE CASE OF A NAZI WHO BECAMEÂ AN ISRAELIÂ HITMAN
http://news4security.com/posts/2016/03/the-strange-case-of-a-nazi-who-became-an-israeli-hitman/
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3. Amnon Goldberg: Astronomy Revised. Is the Earth Really the Center of the Universe?
My letter in today's Hamodia:
Dear Sir
one of the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope ("Celebrating 25 years of the Hubble Space Telesope", Hamodia Features, 10 Sivan) that has surprised scientists is the crystal clear sharpness of all its images, even those supposedly from billions of light years away. That there is no blurring, distortion or diminution in clarity at all, regardless of distance, has lead to doubts in the validity of the use of the Red Shift as a 'cosmic yardstick' in the Big Bang theory, a theory which Rav Shimon Schwab called "a preposterous shtus [foolishness]" ('Rav Schwab on Prayer', p.444, Artscroll 2001). "Modern Cosmology is so likely to be wrong, that I propose to ignore it!" (the Jewish cosmologist Professor Sir Hermann Bondi).
There is evidence that the stars are much smaller than is commonly believed and that they are not at the vertiginous distances claimed for them, the savants admitting that the distances to the stars and galaxies are only "estimated", "apparent", "approximate", "inferred", "indicated", "assumed" or "guessed" and that their true distance has yet to be determined. Parallax is inaccurate beyond 300 light-years, there being no empirical evidence obliging one to commit to a universe larger than 600 light-years in diameter, with it possibly being much smaller.
The Rambam states that "no star is bigger than the Sun" (Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah 3:8) and that the Galgal Hatshi'i - the Ninth Sphere - is the border of this physical universe: "the distance from the Earth to the firmament is a journey of five hundred years, and the thickness of the firmament is a journey of five hundred years, and likewise the distance between one firmament and the other" (Chagigah 13).
Modern cosmology is based on two unproven assumptions: 1) That of the Earth's revolution about the Sun, contradicted by all experiments ever performed: not a smidgen of the Earth's purported 67,000 mph speed has ever been detected or measured. And 2) the utterly illogical Copernican Principle: that any point in the universe is the same as any other.
The recent American science documentary movie "The Principle" (2014) brings the latest astronomical discoveries showing the great errors of the Copernican Principle, and how the Earth is indeed located at the geometrical, gravitational and axial rotation centre of the universe: "The Earth is located at the center of the universe" (Yesodei Hatorah 3:4) - "The Earth is established, it cannot be moved" (Tehillim 93).
Hashem humbles us by asking "Where were you when I laid the Earth's foundation.....when the morning stars sang in unision......can you bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades or loosen the bands of Orion.....can you bring forth each planet in its time or guide Ursa with her sons....do you know the ordinances of heaven....?" (Iyov 38).