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Comments (0)Am I the only one, but does the Mavi Marmara bring back memories of the famed Exodus ship, which launched from the Baltimore harbor in 1947? I’m not talking about good memories either. The former steamer SS President Warfield of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company was purchased by the pre-state Jewish military force the Hagannah and renamed the SS Exodus. It set out on a mission to pick up 4,500 Holocaust survivors, temporarily in France, and take them to then-British controlled Palestine. It was commandeered in international waters by the Royal Navy and the passengers were sent – of all places—to an interment camp in Germany. The huge international outcry was a lynchpin for the founding of the Jewish State a year later. Back then, the United States had been pressing Britain to allow more Jewish refugees into Palestine… read more
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A Palestinian Exodus?
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