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Israelis soon became aware that there were too many anomalies in the death of Rabin to attribute it to right-wingers, and today 75% of Israelis believe it was in fact a left-wing conspiracy! Anomalies such as: . 1.Yitzhak Rabin walking away totally unhurt from Yigal Amir's "shots", when...

It looks like Iran are through to the World Cup in Germany 2006. Israel may be too. A match between them might change history, especially if the Iranians attribute religious import to it: Allah vs Jehovah and a Jihad on the pitch? This is assuming the Israelis haven't taken out the Iranian...

On April 29 1945 300 RAF Lancasters flying at 300' dropped 1000 tons of food to the near-starving Dutch. The closed-up experten German flak crews who had had plenty of practice shooting down 1000s of aircraft of the RAF's Ijselmeer bomber streams, didn't fire a single shot, remarkably...

"If not for My covenant, day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth cease" (Jeremiah 33). If Moses declines and no one else is found worthy, no Sinaitic Revelation, no raison d'etre for this universe, which comes to an end, and God starts a new cycle of Creation!

WI the BEF found itself hemmed in at Calais instead of Dunkirk? From Dover to Calais is 27 miles, instead of the 100 to Dunkirk. This would enable increased RN & RAF cover, but also make easier targets for the Germans, sufficient to suck in all available forces on all sides (including the...

From 1930 until 1955, practically everyone in the west wore Borsalino type hats. Now associated with gangsters, why did it disappear? What would it have taken for the hat to remain in vogue until 1965? And could one day hats (even base ball caps) come almost universally back into vogue?

If you have either or both the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Nelson (assuming he survived Trafalgar) in command of the British forces in the War of 1812, would it have made any difference, best case scenario for the British (and assuming Wellington makes it back in time for Waterloo)?

Until Midway, Stalingrad & El Alamein, the Axis were still in with a chance of winning in the first 1/2 of 1942.

1975 sure was a year that spawned a lot of shallow, uninsightful monosyllabics!

Der Fuhrer's 1942 world tour WI at his height in early 1942, Hitler goes on a blitz three week tour of his empire: Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Marseilles, Rome, Tunis, Tripoli, Benghazi, Athens, Crete, Belgrade, Budapest, Sofia, Tirana, Bucharest, Prague, Leningrad, Warsaw...

In 1969 and 1970 Honduras and El Salvador went to war and riots over worldcup qualifying football matches. Thousands died. Are there any other football, or indeed in any sport, where a different result might have impacted on history?!

In Madrid 1992 Bush Sr threatened to block Israel's $10 billion loan guarantees if Shamir placed the new 1 million Russian Jewish immigrants in the West Bank, Golan and Gaza. Shamir blinked. What if Shamir called Bush's bluff. Would Bush risk the wrath of the US Jewish establishment? Would he...

1966 was only 21 years after the end of WWII, and most spectators at Wembley World Cup had lived or fought through it, and the West Germans were still quietly reviled as "the Huns" and "the Nazis". Few can forget the groan, scream even, from the crowd when Germany scored the first goal...

Between the ages of 50 and 57, a man's testosterone levels fall precipitately. Hitler in 1946 would have felt less agressive, and would have physically felt more mortal and fragile than in 1939. Would this colour his tactics?

I know that! The thing is that very many literally believe in the Holy Grail, Antichrist, Shroud of Turin, Impanation, Apparition of Fatima, Nostradamus, Old Mother Shipton, Corporification, Transfixation, Infallibiliity, Stigmata, Wandering Jew, Eucharist etc. And also St Malachy that there are...