| In June of 1948, near the end of 'Operation Dekel', the village of Al-Birwa, the boyhood home of recently deceased Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, was captured by by the 7th Armoured Brigade of the Israeli army. Al-Birwa was immediately declared a "closed military area", and its' inhabitants forever prohibited from returning. The 7th Armoured Brigade was commanded by none other than Toronto's Ben Dunkelman(son of the founder of Tip Top Tailors and graduate of tony private school Upper Canada College). The Brigade itself was "a unit so heavily comprised of recruits from Canada, the United States and South Africa that it came to be known as the "Anglo-Saxon Brigade.""(Daniel Freeman-Maloy/Znet) |
Mahmoud Darwish, the Canadian connection...
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