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Random thing, but as violence against the British gets started in Cyprus, all the officials immediately draw parallels to Palestine and fear that will be the endgame. I never really considered how 1945-48 in Israel/Palestine looked from a British perspective, but for the officials in the colonial office it seems to be a humiliating defeat (which, fair assessment). Interesting parallel.
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Dec 29, 2025 12:18PM
Also in both cases they were fighting professionals in ways they weren't in previous colonial wars. Several of the core Cypriot resistance leaders were veterans of partisan groups during WWII and there were plenty of ex-soldiers in the Haganah/Irgun. Idk about in Palestine but in Cyprus only some of them seem to have grasped the implications of that.
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