Word: haganah
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Eugene Lipman, educational representative of the Jewish Agency told of successful activities of the Haganah, the underground resistance movement in Palestine, in bringing European refugees to Palestine despite British attempts to thwart them...
Rabbi Lipman, who made several visits to Palestine during the war as an Army chaplain, will concentrate on the topic "Haganah: Defense and Resistance." Largest and most moderate of the underground organizations, Haganah, whose name means defense, was organized by the Jewish Agency during the Arab riots to protect the Hebrow settlements...
...three men represented the three Jewish resistance groups in Palestine: 1) Haganah (Defense), largest and most nearly moderate; 2) Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), and 3) the Stern Gang, both outlawed advocates of terror. For hours they argued vehemently in the cigaret smoke haze. But in the end they found no shalom...
...Haganah had arranged the café meeting to urge a curb on Jewish violence while there was still hope of winning concessions from the British. Its representative brought a plea from moderate Zionist leaders to "isolate [terrorists], deny them all encouragement, support and assistance." The Irgun and Stern representatives turned down that appeal, and snarled "Jewish quislings" at Haganah...
After the failure of the seaside conference, the extremists began a new wave of terror, attacking track intersections until the country was in the grip of an internal blockade. Haganah countered with an "educational campaign" against Irgun and the Sternists, and actually raided arsenals belonging to the underground to destroy hidden explosives...