13 June 2014

Friday Flag - Israeli People's Army



During the early years of the 20th century a new state of Israel was established in the region of Uganda. By 1924 it had become independent of the British Crown. The new nation hit many bumps in its development.

A large number of Israeli soldiers served with Allied armies during World War II. After the war a number of soldiers continued their careers in regional conflicts across Africa from the 1950s to 1980s. Many efforts were not entirely successful. For example the breakaway region of the Congo know as Katanga was not able to win full independence but was able to gain much greater autonomy in the home state.

At home continuing racial unrest, which increased with the strategic alliance with South Africa until the early '80s, as well as a widening wealth gap. This led to elements of various Israeli and Ugandan communist groups to merge and form the Israeli People's Army. This was a terrorist group that operated in the isolated jungle regions of Israel and were usually active with bomb attacks and assassination attempts during what they called 'military adventurism' by the government. The Soviet Union supplied them with weapons, seeing them as a useful group to combat Israeli attacks on Soviet interests on the continent.

Political and economic reforms of the 1980s, the great reduction in commando operations in foreign lands, as well as the ending of the alliance with South Africa all lead to the eventual decay of this militant organization in 1988.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Sean, I think that should be one of the following:
    צבא העם (but that really translates as the "nation's army") or צבא העממית

    The latter is more like (Army of the People), using the same word that's used in the Hebrew Translation of "Peoples Republic of China".

    The word you used
    אֲנָשִׁים ("anashim") is "persons" or "humans" in the generic sense.

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  2. Thanks for the advice. That's what I get for using translation software instead of using an actual dictionary that includes grammar rules.

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