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In 1941, German death squads assembled in Athens. After they linked up with all-conquering General Erwin Rommel, they planned to execute a key phase of the Final Solution - in Palestine, the ancestral home of Jewry. Retired Colonel T.E. Lawrence was summoned to Number 10 Downing Street. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was under extreme pressure from Zionist, and he once again turned to the Loose Cannon.
November 5
In 1941, retired Colonel T.E. Lawrence met with Winston Churchill plus Zionists Chaim Herzog and Aaron Aarohnson. The agenda was to confront the German death squad menace threatening to bring the Final Solution to Palestine. Trouble was the acute absence of trust amongst the delegates - with very good reason. Both Zionists were aware that the British Government had tried to assassinate Aarohnson and his sister Sarah for an act of duplicity over the 1917 assault on Beersheeba. Whilst en route to the Paris Peace Conference in 1918, an unmarked airplane had attemped to shoot them down over the English Channel.
November 6
In 1941, retired Colonel T.E. Lawrence met with Winston Churchill plus Zionists Chaim Herzog and Aaron Aarohnson. All four delegates were very much aware that the Arab nation had turned against the British Government as a result of the betrayal of the Arab Revolt. Yet they agreed to a radical plan. Lawrence would travel to Cairo where he would attempt to 'turn' the Egyptian Officer Cadre who were leaking signal intelligence to General Erwin Rommel. The 'Keys to Rebecca' would be used to lead the Afrika Corps into an ambush before they could overrun North Afrika.
November 7
In 1941, reactivated Colonel T.E. Lawrence flew out of RAF Northolt en route to Cairo. His mission was to 'turn' the Egyptian Officer Cadre who were leaking signal intelligence to General Erwin Rommel. The 'Keys to Rebecca' would be used to lead the Afrika Corps into an ambush before they could overrun North Afrika. Privately, Lawrence doubted the plan - for professional reasons. After all Gamal Abdul Nasser and Anwar Sadat were virulently anti-British. They might even side with the Mufti of Jerusalem, a Nazi sympathizer who had no problem with extending the Final Solution into Palestine - an enabler for a United Arab Republic.
November 8
In 1941, the RAF plane carrying reactivated Colonel T.E. Lawrence to Cairo flew over the Mediterranean. His mission was to 'turn' the Egyptian Officer Cadre who were leaking signal intelligence to General Erwin Rommel. The 'Keys to Rebecca' would be used to lead the Afrika Corps into an ambush before they could overrun North Afrika. Privately, Lawrence doubted the plan - for personal reasons also. Churchill had said rightly that he was neither a young man, nor a well man. He was fifty-odd, and only half the man that had survived the motorbike accident at Clouds Hill.
November 4
In 1941, retired Colonel T.E. Lawrence arrived for a meeting at Number 10 Downing Street where he would be reactivated. Ned was to receive orders from Winston Churchill to meet the German death squad menace threatening to bring the Final Solution to Palestine. The meeting got off to a bad start when Aaron Aarohnson kicked off with the Zionst sentiment 'Next year, in Jerusalem'. It brought back bad memories from 1918. General Allenby had told Prince Feisal (with Lawrence translating) that the British Government did not recognise his leadership, and would shortly be handing Damascus to the French.
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