Word: irgun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Zionist terrorist organization, had threatened to extend its violence to the British Isles...
Both the Stern Group and the Irgun Zevai Leumi, whose single aim to rid Palestine of the British is almost pathological, are offshoots of the Revisionist Party, a non-Zionist organization that split from the world movement in the 1920's. They are responsible to no one. The Irgun, larger of the two, "specializes" in sabotage. The Stern Group, an outfit of only a few hundred, are masters at assassination...