After the Arab Revolt, British control in the remains of Palestine was no longer contested. But Palestine was not calm, and the fighting between Arabs and Jews continued. The Jewish Agency’s Haganah and various Arab organizations fought a low-level war throughout the Jewish neighborhoods where British troops did not stray. This little war would continue for decades without resolution, until the next War would change everything.
We missed Alshain in our first rush into space. It is one of those comedy of errors where everybody thought somebody else had planted a colony there, and nobody thought to go there. The Pre-Contact rocket ships were too expensive to go someplace we “knew” had a colony after all. After Contact, a routine scout service mission noted the lack of a colony there, and we were quick to send one. And yes. That is the true story of how we colonized Alshain.
Bridget and Victoria are the most famous of the many faces that Elizabeth wore in the British Isles, their names synonymous with the long struggle to pull civilization back from the brink of collapse. To this day, they are some of the most common baby girl names in the British Commonwealth, of course they were named for already common baby names, so the correlation there may be suspect. It doesn’t stop people from correlating them though.
I know many have you have been watching the Olympics lately. I’ve always loved them. Sometimes wished I could do them. But we aren’t allowed in gentlemanly games like that. Still, it is amazing to see what people can do on skis, snowboards, skates, and other implements of wintry goodness. Though I do question just how related hoverboards are to winter. Still, there’s one thing I’ll always say about Olympians. They’re amazing athletes, one and all.
Britain gave most of their Post-Great War Palestine Mandate to an Arab prince who named it Jordan. They sought to divide the rest of Palestine between the Jewish and Arab populations, but the Arab Revolt interrupted them. Hundreds of Jews died in the riots, and the British leveled entire towns to quell the revolt. Not wishing to deal with another revolt, the British ended wholesale Jewish immigration. They hoped that action would lessen tensions. They were wrong.