Word: haganah
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...enrolled as a parachutist. She was trained by the British. Hannah was to make contact with Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance movement and relay certain Allied Command instructions to them. She was caught, tortured, and finally shot by a firing squad. Hannah Szenesh was a member of Haganah...
...British General Staff credits Haganah with having a reserve of some 75,000 men under arms. It is, in every sense of the word, a people's army. Its active, striking force is called the Palmach, and numbers some few thousand members, who have voluntarily enlisted. The British have been aware of Haganah and Palmach since the earliest days of their existence, have helped build their organization, trained their members, furnished them with materials and even utilized their power, for their own purposes. In 1936, Brigadier General Orde Wingate, of Burma fame, came to Palestine on Intelligence duty...
...Today Haganah has had to go underground again. It is no longer useful to the British, but it has the backing of the entire Jawish population of Palestine and is responsible to it. It has undertaken to bring in an many immigrants, as it possibly can and to settle on forbidden land in defiance of the White Paper. The Palestine community refuses to accept the legality of a document or policy that forbids entry to Palestine of their families, which is about what it amounts to today. Leaders of Haganah submitted a memorandum to the Anglo-American Commission of Enquiry...
...Haganah first paid off in 1929, when, after the British had withdrawn all licenses for the possession of weapons in Jewish settlements, two hundred Jews were massacred by Arab raiders. Arab onslaughts continued. Where the Jews had "illegal" arms, they protected themselves. Where they had none, it was slaughter. The communities were convinced they could not depend on British protection and steps were taken to train and arm a large-scale defense organization...
...Today, Haganah regards defense in a different light. Where once defense meant merely protection against Bedouin raiders, it is now the defense of the lives and the futures of hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees whose only hope is Palestine...