Word: haganah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marshall), his ill-armed, illegally trained Haganah forces smashed the Arab invaders and carried off his big gamble with stunning success. Then, as soon as the new state was formed, Ben-Gurion proclaimed the Ingathering of the Exiles, leaving it to his young followers to find ways to take in 770,000 immigrants in five years...
...first days of the Arab-Israeli war, Jewish terrorists of the Stern Gang and Irgun Z-vai Leumi encircled Deir Yassin, an Arab village a few miles west of Jerusalem, and by loud speaker demanded its surrender. Their leader carried a cautionary wire from the regional commander of the Haganah, the predecessor of the Israeli army: "I learn you plan an attack on Deir Yassin. I have no objection [but] I warn you against blowing up the village...
...Shamefacedly, the Jewish Agency (the shadow government) announced its "horror and disgust at the barbarous manner in which this action was carried out" and cabled the statement to Jordan's King Abdullah, leader of the Arab coalition. (Three months later, fed up with the terrorists' irresponsibility, the Haganah itself fought a pitched battle with the Irgun troops, forced them to disband as a private army...