Word: haganah
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...partition plan was almost certain to split Jewish ranks. The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang, neck-deep in guerrilla warfare against the British, would turn just as eagerly on Jewish "appeasers." In a showdown, moderate Zionists would probably have the support of Haganah, largest of the underground groups. The compromise note was already sounded by "Voice of Israel," the Haganah radio station, which last week condemned violence and "purposeless terror...
Among this new generation of Jewish patriots (and hardened soldiers newly arrived from Poland) are the most eager recruits for the Jewish underground organizations. Haganah (numbering an estimated 70,000) was organized to defend settlers from the Arabs, now helps illegal Jewish immigration. Two offshoots, the Irgun Zvai Leumi (3,000) and the Stern Gang (2,300), are the terrorist groups who believe that the only way to achieve the Jewish state is to drive the British out of Palestine...
...week, the British Colonial Office reproduced telegrams it said had been exchanged between leaders of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem and their associates in London. The wires implicated the Agency, which has always deplored violence, in terrorists acts. Agency leaders hotly denied the accusations, but it was incontestable that Haganah, the Jewish defense organization, had recently broken precedent by publicly assuming responsibility for the bombing of Palestine bridges. With the King David Hotel outrage, the policy of terrorism had gone too far for moderate Zionists...
...Haganah has denounced extremists of the Stern gang and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, which the British have long fought. Last week 31 young Jews (ages 19 to 28), members of the Irgun, were convicted of carrying firearms and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. (One, 19-year-old Benjamin Kaplan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for "discharging a firearm at His Majesty's forces.") In a turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood...
...British charged that the Jewish Agency and Haganah, as well as the extremist gangs, were responsible for violence and disorder in Palestine. In other words, the British were now in open and direct conflict with the main Zionist movement...