Early Zionist
Terrorist Gangs.
Soon after the
end of World War II, there were three basic para-military Zionist organizations
in Palestine, working against the Arab people, with the specific purpose of
driving it out of Palestine. These were the Haganah, the Irgun Zvai Leumi and
the Stern Gang.
Before the
British Mandate, the Jewish settlers had formed a group of mounted armed
watchmen called "Hashomar" and with the advent of the British
Mandate, it became the Haganah (Defense). With a membership of 60,000 Zionist
Jews, the Haganah had a field army of 16,000 trained men and a unit called the
Palmach, which was a full-time force, numbering about 6000.
The Irgun Zvai
Leumi included between 3000 and 5000 armed terrorists, and grew out of the
Haganah and its Palmach branch in 1933. The Irgun was not ready to obey the
Jewish Agency which sought to dilute the terror of the Haganah in order not to
lose its respectability.
In 1939, one of
Irgun's commanding officers, Abraham Stern, left the parent organization and
formed the Stern Gang, numbering some 200 to 300 dangerous fanatics.
Some early
examples of Jewish-Zionist terror.
August 20, 1937 - June 29, 1939. During this
period, the Zionists carried out a series of attacks against Arab buses, resulting
in the death of 24 persons and wounding 25 others.
November 25, 1940. S.S.Patria was blown up by Jewish terrorists in Haifa
harbour, killing 268 illegal Jewish immigrants (see below).
November 6, 1944. Zionist terrorists of the Stern Gang assassinated the
British Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in Cairo.
July 22, 1946. Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, which housed the central offices of the civilian administration of
the government of Palestine, killing or injuring more than 200 persons. The
Irgun officially claimed responsibility for the incident, but subsequent
evidence indicated that both the Haganah and the Jewish Agency were involved.
October 1, 1946. The British Embassy in Rome was badly damaged by bomb
explosions, for which Irgun claimed responsibility.
June 1947. Letters sent to British Cabinet Ministers were found
to contain bombs.
September 3, 1947. A postal bomb addressed to the British War Office
exploded in the post office sorting room in London, injuring 2 persons. It was
attributed to Irgun or Stern Gangs. (The Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1972, p.8).
December 11, 1947. Six Arabs were killed and 30 wounded when bombs were
thrown from Jewish trucks at Arab buses in Haifa; 12 Arabs were killed and
others injured in an attack by armed Zionists on an Arab coastal village near
Haifa.
December 13,1947. Zionist terrorists, believed to be members of Irgun
Zvai Leumi, killed 18 Arabs and wounded nearly 60 in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Lydda
areas. In Jerusalem, bombs were thrown in an Arab market-place near the
Damascus Gate; in Jaffa, bombs were thrown into an Arab cafe; in the Arab
village of Al Abbasya, near Lydda, 12 Arabs were killed in an attack with
mortars and automatic weapons.
December 19, 1947. Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near
Safad, blowing up two houses, in the ruins of which were found the bodies of 10
Arabs, including 5 children. Haganah admitted responsibility for the attack.
December 29, 1947. Two British constables and 11 Arabs were killed and
32 Arabs injured, at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem when Irgun members threw a
bomb from a taxi.
December 30,1947. A mixed force of the Zionist Palmach and the
"Carmel Brigade" attacked the village of Balad al Sheikh, killing
more than 60 Arabs.
1947 - 1948. Over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were uprooted from
their homes and land, and forced to live in refugee camps on Israel's borders.
They have been denied the right to return to their homes. They have been
refused compensation for their homes, orchards, farms and other property stolen
from them by the Israeli government. After their expulsion, the "Israeli
Forces" totally obliterated (usually by bulldozing) 385 Arab villages and
towns, out of a total of 475. Commonly, Israeli villages were built on the
remaining rubble.
January 1, 1948. Haganah terrorists attacked a village on the slopes
of Mount Carmel; 17 Arabs were killed and 33 wounded.
January 4, 1948. Haganah terrorists wearing British Army uniforms
penetrated into the center of Jaffa and blew up the Serai (the old Turkish
Government House) which was used as a headquarters of the Arab National
Committee, killing more than 40 persons and wounding 98 others.
January 5, 1948. The Arab-owned Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem was blown
up, killing 20 persons, among them Viscount de Tapia, the Spanish Consul.
Haganah admitted responsibility for this crime.
January 7, 1948. Seventeen Arabs were killed by a bomb at the Jaffa
Gate in Jerusalem, 3 of them while trying to escape. Further casualties,
including the murder of a British officer near Hebron, were reported from different
parts of the country.
January 16, 1948. Zionists blew up three Arab buildings. In the first,
8 children between the ages of 18 months and 12 years, died.
December 13, 1947 -- February 10, 1948. Seven
incidents of bomb-tossing at innocent Arab civilians in cafes and markets,
killing 138 and wounding 271 others, During this period, there were 9 attacks
on Arab buses. Zionists mined passenger trains on at least 4 occasions, killing
93 persons and wounding 161 others.
February 15, 1948. Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near
Safad, blew up several houses, killing 11 Arabs, including 4 children.
March 3, 1948. Heavy damage was done to the Arab-owned Salam
building in Haifa (a 7 story block of apartments and shops) by Zionists who
drove an army lorry ( truck) up to the building and escaped before the
detonation of 400 Ib. of explosives; casualties numbered 11 Arabs and 3
Armenians killed and 23 injured. The Stern Gang claimed responsibility for the
incident.
March 22, 1948. A housing block in Iraq Street in Haifa was blown up
killing 17 and injuring 100 others. Four members of the Stern Gang drove two
truck-loads of explosives into the street and abandoned the vehicles before the
explosion.
March 31, 1948. The Cairo-Haifa Express was mined, for the second
time in a month, by an electronically-detonated land mine near Benyamina,
killing 40 persons and wounding 60 others.
April 9, 1948. A combined force of Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern
Gang, supported by the Palmach forces, captured the Arab village of Deir Yassin
and killed more than 200 unarmed civilians, including countless women and
children. Older men and young women were captured and paraded in chains in the
Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem; 20 of the hostages were then shot in the quarry of
Gevaat Shaul.
April 16, 1948. Zionists attacked the former British army camp at Tel
Litvinsky, killing 90 Arabs there.
April 19, 1948. Fourteen Arabs were killed in a house in Tiberias,
which was blown up by Zionist terrorists.
May 3, 1948. A book bomb addressed to a British Army officer, who
had been stationed in Palestine exploded, killing his brother, Rex Farran.
May11, 1948. A letter bomb addressed to Sir Evelyn Barker, former
Commanding Officer in Palestine, was detected in the nick of time by his wife.
April 25, 1948 -- May 13, 1948. Wholesale
looting of Jaffa was carried out following armed attacks by Irgun and Haganah
terrorists. They stripped and carried away everything they could, destroying
what they could not take with them.
The SS Patria.
November 25, 1940. In September, 1940, around 3,000 Jewish refugees from
Vienna, Prague and Danzig were attempting to reach Palestine. In a convoy of
four river steamers, they set sail down the Danube and reached the Romanian
port of Tulcea where they transferred to three Greek cargo ships named
Atlantic, Pacific and Milos. Conditions on board these three ships were
horrendous, reminiscent of Japanese hell-ships later in the war. Eventually the
ships reached Palestinian waters, but the British Colonial Office refused them
permission to land. It was finally decided to deport the refugees to the island
of Mauritius where a special camp was to be built. The three ships were then
brought into Haifa harbour where the liner Patria was berthed. The refugees
were then embarked on the Patria and as the last passengers from the Atlantic
were coming on board, a tremendous explosion ripped the liner apart. The death
toll amounted to 267 refugees killed. The explosion was the work of the Jewish
underground army, the Haganah, who had meant only to damage the ship to prevent
it sailing but had miscalculated the amount of explosives needed to disable the
ship. Many say that this was no miscalculation and was deliberate murder of
Jews by Jews, in an attempt to influence British immigration policy to
Palestine.
A light unto
the nations.
The first act of air piracy in the history
of civil aviation was carried out by Israel, in Dec. 1954, when a civilian
Syrian airliner was forced down in Tel Aviv and its passengers and crew held
for days, despite international condemnation.
In 1968,
Israeli commandos blew up 13 civilian airliners at Beirut airport in Lebanon.
The first deliberate shooting
down a civilian airliner was carried out by Israel, when a Libyan airliner was
shot down by Israeli jet fighters over Sinai, in Feb. 1973, on the direct
orders of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, killing all 107 of its passengers
and the entire French crew.
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