Word: irgun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lying about his age, he boarded an Irgun ship at Marseille and sailed for the newly proclaimed state of Israel...
...occupied territory to preserve its security, and also from members of the religious parties, who generally oppose relinquishing lands that they feel were granted to Israel in the Old Testament. Since Camp David, Begin has been attacked harshly by a number of his former comrades in the Irgun underground. They denounce him as a traitor to Zionism because he has been willing to negotiate with Sadat the abandonment of Israeli settlements in the Sinai...
These are difficult days for Menachem Begin. Among his harshest critics are close comrades from his days as leader of the Irgun underground, who have not only criticized his position but branded him a traitor to the Zionist cause. Begin's performance this week may well decide the fate of the proposed treaty with Egypt. If he breaks with his chief negotiators, Dayan and Weizman, over the Israeli response to the latest proposals from Washington and Cairo, he could destroy the negotiations-and bring on a crisis for his government. If, on the other hand, he can win approval...
...mystic, a legalist, a man totally insensitive to any problems beyond those of Jewish Israel. He is tiresomely preachy in his talks with non-Israeli leaders, repeating to the point of boredom his odd fact-and-fiction litany of Jewish biblical and legal rights, his self-justification for Irgun atrocities and his blend of self-righteous arrogance...
...summarizing, then, we see that terrorism exists on both sides--one could go into the entire history of such Israeli terrorist organizations as the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Group that have collaborated with the official armed forces of the Jewish Agency (Haganah and Palmuch) and committed atrocities in which many innocent Palestinian civilian lives have been taken. The same military and psychological tolls that Feldstein describes as being suffered by kibbutzniks have also been endured on the Arab side where Palestinian refugees and southern Lebanese villages have instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological...