Word: haganah
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...August 8th, the "Voice of Israel," underground radio of Haganah, the Jewish. Resistance Movement, broadcast these words to the British: "We say to you that we will regard any attack made on the refugees as an attack on ourselves. An injury to their lives and safety will be regarded as an injury to our lives and safety. Our fight is for them and with them. Everything we have built in this country is for them...
...Haganah and the Jews of Palestine, the entrance of European refugees is no longer a question of the wisdom or foolishness of policy, but simply something that must be accomplished. When Haganah men gather, the toast is always, "To the ships...
There has been so much irresponsible and incorrect reporting of terrorism and terrorists in Palestine, I feel it necessary to clarify the differences between Haganah and the two so-called "terrorist" gangs, the Stern Group, responsible for the murder of Lord Moyne in Cairo some years ago, and the Irgun Zeval Leumi, National Military Organization, responsible for the recent bombing of British headquarters at the King David Hotel...
...Haganah, which means "defense," is the peoples' army of Palestinian Jewry. Its history goes back to Czarist Russia, where small groups organized to protect themselves against pogroms. The idea was brought to Palestine before World War I, and an organization called Hashomer, "The Watchman," was formed. At first they were merely armed guards for the new agricultural settlements, but with the end of the war, the idea of an all-inclusive defense organization took root. With returned veterans of the Jewish Legion of Allenby's Middle Eastern British Army, a nucleus of Haganah was formed...
...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...