Ethnic cleansing
of Palestinian lands occurred long before the formal creation of Israel
in 1947. Soft targets such as buses, cafes, and bazaars were the primary
targets of Jewish Zionist radicals, who made a sport of killing the
defenseless.
The most egregious Israeli terrorist act occurred on July 26, 1946, in which 91 people, mostly British soldiers, were killed in the King David Hotel bombing. (http://en.wikipedia....d_Hotel_bombing)
What justified this horrible act?
Here is a complete list of Irgun bombings, assassinations and assorted massacres committed by the Jewish Zionist paramilitaries of the Irgun Zevai Leumi, or "National Military Organization in the Land of Israel" (ארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל)
The Irgun's commanders in order of command were:
Date Casualties 1937, March 2 Arabs killed on Bat-Yam beach.
[12]1937, November 14 10 Arabs killed by Irgun units launching attacks around Jerusalem, ("Black Sunday")
[13][14]1938, April 12 2 Arabs and 2 British policemen were killed by a bomb in a train in Haifa.
[14]1938, April 17 1 Arab was killed by a bomb detonated in a cafe in Haifa
[14]1938, May 17 1 Arab policeman was killed in an attack on a bus in the Jerusalem-Hebron road.
[14]1938, May 24 3 Arabs were shot and killed in Haifa.
[14]1938, June 23 2 Arabs were killed near Tel-Aviv.
[14]1938, June 26 7 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jaffa.
[14]1938, June 27 1 Arab was killed in the yard of a hospital in Haifa.
[14]1938, June (late) Unspecified number of Arabs killed by a bomb that was thrown into a crowded Arab market place in Jerusalem.
[15]1938, July 5 7 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks in Tel-Aviv. [14]1938, July 5 3 Arabs were killed by a bomb detonated in a bus in Jerusalem.
[14]1938, July 5 1 Arab was killed in another attack in Jerusalem.
[14]1938, July 6 18 Arabs and 5 Jews were killed by two simultaneous bombs in the Arab melon market in Haifa.
[14][16]1938, July 8 4 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem.
[14]1938, July 16 10 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jerusalem.
[14]1938, July 25 43 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa.
[14][17]1938, August 26 24 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jaffa.
[14]1938, February 27 33 Arabs were killed in multiple attacks, incl. 24 by bomb in Arab market in Suk Quarter of Haifa and 4 by bomb in Arab vegetable market in Jerusalem.
[18]1939, May 29 5 Arabs were killed by a mine detonated at the Rex cinema in Jerusalem. [14]1939, May 29 5 Arabs were shot and killed during a raid on the village of Biyar 'Adas.
[14]1939, June 2 5 Arabs were killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.
[14][19]1939, June 12 1 British bomb expert trying to defuse the bombs killed, during a post office in Jerusalem was bombing
[14]1939, June 16 6 Arabs were killed in several attacks in Jerusalem.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8a_1306379366&comments=1
Terror in Palestine during British Mandate days
old newsreel ^^^^^^^^
[14]1939, June 19 20 Arabs were killed by explosives mounted on a donkey at a marketplace in Haifa.
[14][20]1939, June 29 13 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks around Jaffa during a one-hour period.
[14][21]1939, June 30 1 Arab was killed at a marketplace in Jerusalem.
[14]1939, June 30 2 Arabs were shot and killed in Lifta.
[14]1939, July 3 1 Arab was killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa.
[14][22]1939, July 4 2 Arabs were killed in two attacks in Jerusalem
[14]1939, July 20 1 Arab was killed at a train station in Jaffa.
[14]1939, July 20 6 Arabs were killed in several attacks in Tel-Aviv.
[14]1939, July 20 3 Arabs were killed in Rehovot.
[14]1939, August 27 2 British officers were killed by a mine in Jerusalem.
[14]1944, September 27 Unknown number of casualties, around 150 Irgun members attacked four British police stations
[23]1944, September 29 1 Senior British police officer of the Criminal Intelligence Department assassinated in Jerusalem.
[23]1945, November 1 5 locomotives destroyed in Lydda station. Two staff, one soldier and one policeman killed.
[24]1945, December 27 3 British policemen and 4 Basuto soldiers killed during the bombing of British CID headquarters in Jerusalem; 1 British soldier killed during attack of British army camp in north Tel Aviv
[25][26]1946, February 22 Destroyed 14 aeroplanes at 5 RAF stations.
[28][29][30]1946, October 30 2 British guards killed during Gunfire and explosion at Jerusalem Railway Station.
[31]1946, October 31 Bombing of the British Embassy in Rome. Nearly half the building was destroyed and 3 people were injured.
[32]1947, January 12 4 killed in bombing of British headquarters.
[33]1947, March 1 17 British officers killed, during raid and explosion.
[34]1947, March 12 1 British soldier killed during the attack on Schneller Camp.
[34]1947, July 29 2 kidnapped British sergeants hanged.
[35]1947, September 26 4 British policemen killed in Irgun bank robbery.
[33]1947, September 29 13 killed, 53 wounded in attack on British police station.
[33]1947, December 11 13 killed in attack on Tireh, near Haifa
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8a_1306379366&comments=1
[36]1947, December 12 20 killed, 5 wounded by barrel bomb at Damascus Gate.
[37]1947, December 13 6 killed, 25 wounded by bombs outside Alhambra Cinema
[38]1947, December 13 5 killed, 47 wounded by two bombs at Damascus Gate.
[38]1947, December 13 7 killed, 10 seriously injured in attack on Yehudieh.
[38]1947, December 16(ca) 10 killed by bomb at Noga Cinema in Jaffa
39]1947, December 20 6 Arabs killed, dozens wounded by bomb at Haifa refinery, precipitating the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre, which lead to the Balad al-Shaykh massacre
[40]1947, December 29 14 Arabs killed by bomb in Jerusalem.
[33][41]1948, January 1 2 Arabs killed and 9 injured by shooting attack on cafe in Jaffa.
[42]1948, January 5 14 Arabs killed and 19 injured by truck bomb outside the 3-storey 'Serrani', Jaffa's built Ottoman Town Hall
[43]1948, January 7 20 Arabs killed by bomb at Jaffa Gate.
[44][45]1948, February 10 7 Arabs killed near Ras el Ain after selling cows in Tel Aviv
[46]1948, February 18 12 Arabs killed and 43 wounded at a marketplace in Ramla
[47]1948, March 1 20 Britons killed and 30 wounded in the Bevingrad Officers Club bombing
[48]1948, April 9-April 11 107-120 Palestinians killed and massacred (the estimate generally accepted by scholars, instead the first announced number of 254) during and after the battle at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, by 132 Irgun and 60 Lehi fighters.
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Source: David Mitchell/ The News As It Is.
The most egregious Israeli terrorist act occurred on July 26, 1946, in which 91 people, mostly British soldiers, were killed in the King David Hotel bombing. (http://en.wikipedia....d_Hotel_bombing)
David Raziel was a fighter of the Jewish underground during the British mandate, and one of the founders of the Irgun. Wikipedia
Born: December 19, 1910
Died: May 20, 1941
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Avraham
T'homi was a noted Jewish militant, and a key figure in the history of
the Hebrew National Military Organization and allegedly in the killing
of Jacob Israël de Haan. His nickname in the Irgun was 'Gideon'.
Wikipedia
Born: 1903
Died: 1991
What justified this horrible act?
Irgun
- led by Menachem Begin Later become prime ministerFollowing Israel's
establishment in 1948, Begin founded the right wing political party
Herut. In 1977, he became Israel's prime minister. He is often cited as
notable as its first non-socialist head of state. He also became the
first Israeli leader to sign a peace treaty with an Arab country, Egypt.
In 1978, he and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the
Nobel Peace prize. Begin resigned as prime minister in 1983.
Here is a complete list of Irgun bombings, assassinations and assorted massacres committed by the Jewish Zionist paramilitaries of the Irgun Zevai Leumi, or "National Military Organization in the Land of Israel" (ארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל)
The Irgun's commanders in order of command were:
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of Zionism's Revisionist movement and the Irgun's first commander.
Robert
Bitker was a Russian-born military commander of the Zionist
paramilitary group Irgun. He operated in Shanghai prior to working at
the organisation Headquarters, where he was later appointed Chief.
Born in 1898 in Mariopol in the Russian Empire.
Immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1921 and took part in the Jewish defence of Jaffa.
With Avraham Tehomi, took part in the Haganah instructors course.
Was among the founders of the Irgun in its first form and joined the Revisionist movement.
Commanded the Irgun in 1937-1938.
Ya'akov Meridor was a Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun commander and Israeli politician. Wikipedia
Born: September 29, 1913, Poland
Died: June 30, 1995
Date Casualties 1937, March 2 Arabs killed on Bat-Yam beach.
[12]1937, November 14 10 Arabs killed by Irgun units launching attacks around Jerusalem, ("Black Sunday")
[13][14]1938, April 12 2 Arabs and 2 British policemen were killed by a bomb in a train in Haifa.
[14]1938, April 17 1 Arab was killed by a bomb detonated in a cafe in Haifa
[14]1938, May 17 1 Arab policeman was killed in an attack on a bus in the Jerusalem-Hebron road.
[14]1938, May 24 3 Arabs were shot and killed in Haifa.
[14]1938, June 23 2 Arabs were killed near Tel-Aviv.
[14]1938, June 26 7 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jaffa.
[14]1938, June 27 1 Arab was killed in the yard of a hospital in Haifa.
[14]1938, June (late) Unspecified number of Arabs killed by a bomb that was thrown into a crowded Arab market place in Jerusalem.
[15]1938, July 5 7 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks in Tel-Aviv. [14]1938, July 5 3 Arabs were killed by a bomb detonated in a bus in Jerusalem.
[14]1938, July 5 1 Arab was killed in another attack in Jerusalem.
[14]1938, July 6 18 Arabs and 5 Jews were killed by two simultaneous bombs in the Arab melon market in Haifa.
[14][16]1938, July 8 4 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem.
[14]1938, July 16 10 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jerusalem.
[14]1938, July 25 43 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa.
[14][17]1938, August 26 24 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jaffa.
[14]1938, February 27 33 Arabs were killed in multiple attacks, incl. 24 by bomb in Arab market in Suk Quarter of Haifa and 4 by bomb in Arab vegetable market in Jerusalem.
[18]1939, May 29 5 Arabs were killed by a mine detonated at the Rex cinema in Jerusalem. [14]1939, May 29 5 Arabs were shot and killed during a raid on the village of Biyar 'Adas.
[14]1939, June 2 5 Arabs were killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.
[14][19]1939, June 12 1 British bomb expert trying to defuse the bombs killed, during a post office in Jerusalem was bombing
[14]1939, June 16 6 Arabs were killed in several attacks in Jerusalem.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8a_1306379366&comments=1
Terror in Palestine during British Mandate days
old newsreel ^^^^^^^^
[14]1939, June 19 20 Arabs were killed by explosives mounted on a donkey at a marketplace in Haifa.
[14][20]1939, June 29 13 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks around Jaffa during a one-hour period.
[14][21]1939, June 30 1 Arab was killed at a marketplace in Jerusalem.
[14]1939, June 30 2 Arabs were shot and killed in Lifta.
[14]1939, July 3 1 Arab was killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa.
[14][22]1939, July 4 2 Arabs were killed in two attacks in Jerusalem
[14]1939, July 20 1 Arab was killed at a train station in Jaffa.
[14]1939, July 20 6 Arabs were killed in several attacks in Tel-Aviv.
[14]1939, July 20 3 Arabs were killed in Rehovot.
[14]1939, August 27 2 British officers were killed by a mine in Jerusalem.
[14]1944, September 27 Unknown number of casualties, around 150 Irgun members attacked four British police stations
[23]1944, September 29 1 Senior British police officer of the Criminal Intelligence Department assassinated in Jerusalem.
[23]1945, November 1 5 locomotives destroyed in Lydda station. Two staff, one soldier and one policeman killed.
[24]1945, December 27 3 British policemen and 4 Basuto soldiers killed during the bombing of British CID headquarters in Jerusalem; 1 British soldier killed during attack of British army camp in north Tel Aviv
[25][26]1946, February 22 Destroyed 14 aeroplanes at 5 RAF stations.
July
2, 1946: The King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed. Killing 91
people
Menachem Begin planned the destruction of the King David Hotel and the
massacre of Deir Yassin. Ex prime minister, Shamir, was originally a
member of the Jewish "terrorist" gang called Irgun, which was headed by
none other than Menachem Begin. Shamir later moved over to the even more
radical "Stern Gang," which committed many vicious atrocities.
Shamir himself has defended the various assassinations committed
by the Irgun and Stern gangs on the grounds that "it was the only way we
could operate, because we were so small. So it was more efficient and
more moral to go for selected targets." The selected moral targets in
those early days of the founding of the state of Israel included bombing
of the King David Hotel and the massacre of Deir Yassin.
[28][29][30]1946, October 30 2 British guards killed during Gunfire and explosion at Jerusalem Railway Station.
In Paris, 1946, on an Irgun mission Menachem Begin with David Raziel
[31]1946, October 31 Bombing of the British Embassy in Rome. Nearly half the building was destroyed and 3 people were injured.
[32]1947, January 12 4 killed in bombing of British headquarters.
[33]1947, March 1 17 British officers killed, during raid and explosion.
[34]1947, March 12 1 British soldier killed during the attack on Schneller Camp.
The
Sergeants affair (Hebrew: פרשת הסרג'נטים) was an incident that took
place in Mandate Palestine in July 1947 in which the Jewish underground
group the Irgun kidnapped two British army Intelligence Corps NCOs,
Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice, and threatened to
kill them if the death sentences passed on Irgun militants arrested by
the British authorities on charges of illegal possession of arms, and
with 'intent to kill or cause other harm to a large number of
people',were carried out. When the executions were carried out, the
Irgun killed its hostages and hung their booby-trapped bodies in a
eucalyptus grove near Netanya. This act was widely condemned in both
Palestine and the United Kingdom. Soon after hearing of the deaths some
British troops and policemen attacked Jews in Tel Aviv, killing five and
injuring others.[2] The killings also sparked off antisemitic rioting
in some British cities.[2
[34]1947, July 29 2 kidnapped British sergeants hanged.
[35]1947, September 26 4 British policemen killed in Irgun bank robbery.
[33]1947, September 29 13 killed, 53 wounded in attack on British police station.
[33]1947, December 11 13 killed in attack on Tireh, near Haifa
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8a_1306379366&comments=1
[36]1947, December 12 20 killed, 5 wounded by barrel bomb at Damascus Gate.
[37]1947, December 13 6 killed, 25 wounded by bombs outside Alhambra Cinema
[38]1947, December 13 5 killed, 47 wounded by two bombs at Damascus Gate.
[38]1947, December 13 7 killed, 10 seriously injured in attack on Yehudieh.
[38]1947, December 16(ca) 10 killed by bomb at Noga Cinema in Jaffa
It
is a sad irony that the single bloodiest incident of the first month of
the Arab-Jewish violence that erupted immediately after the UN General
Assembly endorsed partition not only involved workers employed at a
mixed workplace but occurred at a site which had a history of close
cooperation between Arab and Jewish unionists. This incident, one of the
first massacres of the 1947–49 period though by no means the last,
contributed greatly to the dissemination of fear and hatred among both
Arabs and Jews in Palestine.
The site in question was the Haifa oil refinery, which at the end of
1947 employed some 1,700 Arab and 270 Jewish manual workers, in addition
to 190 Jewish, 110 Arab, and 60 British clerical workers. As I
discussed earlier, the refinery workers had been involved in important
struggles in 1946–47. In these struggles Arab workers and union
activists had played the leading role, not surprisingly given the
composition of the workforce and its high degree of organization. But
the Arab unionists' relations with the Jewish refinery workers seem to
have been good: the Histadrut's clerical workers' union had close ties
with some of the Arab white-collar employees at the site, while the
local Jewish workers' committee was dominated by Hashomer Hatza‘ir
members who had developed good relations with Arab leftists and labor
activists at the refinery.
In the summer of 1947, for example, the members of the Jewish workers'
committee at CRL were invited to attend the funeral in Acre of an Arab
refinery worker who had been killed in an industrial accident. The
Jewish activists accepted, and at the cemetery one of them eulogized the
deceased. The Jews' participation made a positive impression on the
Arab refinery workers and in Acre generally. The Arab and Jewish
workers' committees also cooperated in organizing a brief memorial
strike in the deceased's department at the refinery, together took up a
collection to help his family, and joined in pressing management for
fair compensation.
39]1947, December 20 6 Arabs killed, dozens wounded by bomb at Haifa refinery, precipitating the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre, which lead to the Balad al-Shaykh massacre
[40]1947, December 29 14 Arabs killed by bomb in Jerusalem.
[33][41]1948, January 1 2 Arabs killed and 9 injured by shooting attack on cafe in Jaffa.
[42]1948, January 5 14 Arabs killed and 19 injured by truck bomb outside the 3-storey 'Serrani', Jaffa's built Ottoman Town Hall
[43]1948, January 7 20 Arabs killed by bomb at Jaffa Gate.
[44][45]1948, February 10 7 Arabs killed near Ras el Ain after selling cows in Tel Aviv
[46]1948, February 18 12 Arabs killed and 43 wounded at a marketplace in Ramla
[47]1948, March 1 20 Britons killed and 30 wounded in the Bevingrad Officers Club bombing
[48]1948, April 9-April 11 107-120 Palestinians killed and massacred (the estimate generally accepted by scholars, instead the first announced number of 254) during and after the battle at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, by 132 Irgun and 60 Lehi fighters.
For
Palestinians, the 1948 massacre by Irgun and allied Stern Gang soldiers
of more than 200 residents of Deir Yassin, a tiny village near
Jerusalem, resonates sharply as a focal point of history. The dead
victims almost all women, children and old men became irrefutable
evidence of the consequences for Palestinians of the creation of the new
Jewish state. The resulting forced exile of over 750,000 Palestinians
in 1948 over two million scattered in a far-flung diaspora today remains
at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Remembering Deir Yassin
brings together Palestinians and Israelis, Jews, Muslims and Christians,
Jewish theologians and Palestinian priests, to reflect on the
fifty-year legacy of Deir Yassin.http://www.deiryassin.org/book.html
[53]1948, April 6 7 British soldiers, including Commanding Officer, killed during an arms raid on Pardes Hanna Army camp.bbSource: David Mitchell/ The News As It Is.
