Why Italian Planes Bombed Tel-Aviv?

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  1. Margot

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    There are photos at the link.. I wonder why the Zionists didn't take revenge on the Italians??

    http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?ID=470&t=Why-Italian-Planes-Bombed-Tel-Aviv?


    Why Italian Planes Bombed Tel-Aviv?

    In 1940 and 1941 there were a number of air-raids on Haifa and Tel-Aviv by the Italian air-force. On September, 1940, a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv was targeted by the Italian planes, resulting in the deaths of over a hundred people.

    In June 1940, with German victory imminent, Italy declared war on Britain and France. Shortly afterwards, France surrendered, and Britain remained alone in the struggle against Germany and Italy.

    The Italians concentrated their forces in North Africa and made their way to Egypt. The proximity of the Italians to Palestine enabled them to dispatch aircraft to bomb strategic targets.

    A month after Italy entered the war, Haifa was bombed, with the aim of putting the refineries and port out of action. Dozens of people were killed in the raid and many others were injured. Strict blackout was imposed on all towns and settlements, and civil defense measures were adopted against the air raids.


    Italian planes were built in 'Fiat' factory

    These measures proved useless, however, when Tel Aviv was bombed in full daylight. I was playing with friends near home when we suddenly heard loud explosions. Before we could grasp what was happening, the Italian planes were on their way back to base.

    The entire bombardment had lasted only a few seconds, catching us unaware and leaving us no time to get to the shelter in the center of the neighborhood.

    From conversations around us, we understood that many people had been injured. I immediately ran home to report that I was safe and then went to see what had happened.

    The Nordiya quarter (where the Dizengoff Center now stands) had been heavily hit; the huts were in ruins, and among the debris lay the dead and injured. Here and there a fire had broken out.

    Damaged cars and wagons blocked the road itself. In the middle of the road lay a dead horse, hit while still harnessed to a wagon. I gazed at the horror around me. Of what strategic importance could this residential area have been?

    A mass funeral was held for the 107 men and women who had died in the bombardment. The funeral procession left from the Balfour school and I still recall the coffins lying in rows on the trucks en route to the Nahlat Yitzhak cemetery. The lesson learned from this terrible raid was that our early-warning systems had to be improved to enable us to take shelter in good time. (by Prof. Yehuda Lapidot, from Irgun website)
     
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    Could it be that Israel didn't exist at that time?
     
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    Israel took revenge on every Nazi war criminal they could uncover.........
     
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    It doesn't answer my question.
     
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    Israel wasn't a nation when the Nazis were in power either... but that didn't stop them from hunting down Nazi criminals.

    You know the Italians bombed Bahrain and Dhahran in November of 1941.....

    Must have been part of Hitler's Operation Orient.
     
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    The United States wasn't a nation prior to 1776.

    That doesn't stop them being the most warmongering country on earth.

    So, what's your point?
     
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    The subject is the Italian bombing of Tel Aviv..............
     
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    Well, you aren't getting much of a response, are you?
     
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    Its no surprise to me that most Americans don't care about history...
     
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    Or alternatively, they don't care for your version of it.
     
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    Did you bother to LOOK at the source material??????????????????
     
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    Yes, and I also looked at your two sentence comment. So, as I asked before, what's your point?
     
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    Margot....I am not sure what your point is.

    Tel Aviv was not targetted because of the Jews or the Arabs who lived their but because Tel Aviv had some legitimate targets.

    Nazi war criminals that the Israeli's targetted were ones that had a hand in the Holocaust. Now a legitimate comparison would be whether Israel pursued any of the Italians who facilitated the Holocaust, and committed crimes against Italian jews.
     
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    They wanted to knock out the oil refineries and port facilities in Telaviv and Haifa... and they killed a lot of Israelis.

    Same reason they bombed Bahrain and Dhahran.
     
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    I get that. They also bombed Athens, and Malta etc, etc.

    I guess I am still not getting the point of the thread.

    If your point is to bring to light a part of history- especially one that you have personal recollections of- well thanks- I had never known about this bombing, though it doesn't surprise me.

    But I don't get the equating the bombing to the hunting of Nazi war criminals. I suspect that Polish jews died when Germany bombed Warsaw, but Israeli Nazi hunters didn't pursue those pilots- they pursued those who contributed directly to the Holocaust.
     
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    I see your point....... Actually the bombing of Tel Aviv was news to me.. and I found it shocking to say the least.

    I don't remember the bombing of Bahrain and Dhahran.. but I have heard the story of the 100 men...
     

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