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Irgun - Revisionist Zionism, 1931-1948 (Paperback)
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Irgun - Revisionist Zionism, 1931-1948 (Paperback)
Series: History of Terror Series
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In October 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services described the
Irgun Tsvai Leumi - National Military Organization - as 'an
underground, quasi-military organization with headquarters in
Palestine ... fanatical Zionists who wish to convert Palestine and
Transjordan into an independent Jewish state ... advocate the use
of force both against the Arabs and the British to achieve this
maximal political goal'. In 1925, Ze'ev Jabotinsky founded the
Revisionist Zionism organization, whose secular, right-wing
ideology would lead to the formation of the Irgun and, ultimately,
of the Likud Party. Commencing operations in the British Mandate of
Palestine in 1931, Irgun adopted a mainly guarding role, while
facilitating the ongoing immigration of Jews into Palestine. In
1936, Irgun guerrillas started attacking Arab targets. The British
White Paper of 1939 rejected the establishment of a Jewish nation,
and as a direct consequence, Irgun guerrillas started targeting the
British. The authorities executed captured Irgun operatives found
guilty of terrorism, while deporting hundreds to internment camps
overseas. As details of Jewish genocide - the Holocaust - emerged,
Irgun declared war on the British in Palestine. Acts of
infrastructural sabotage gave way to the bombing of buildings and
police stations, the worst being the bombing of the King David
Hotel in Jerusalem - the hub of British operations and
administration - in July 1946, killing ninety-one. Freedom fighters
or terrorists - Irgun was only dissolved when the independent
Jewish state of Israel was born on 14 May 1948\. This is their
story.
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