Word: irgun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moderate Zionists wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Already, however, some extremists have been advising the Jews to grab what they could. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel, but he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further...
...creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. After emigrating to British-ruled Palestine in 1935, Shamir entered the law school of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, only to drop out in 1937, as the Arab revolt against the burgeoning Jewish presence in Palestine intensified. That same year, he joined Irgun Zrai Leumi (National Military Organization), the radical terrorist group whose subsequent leader was Menachem Begin...
...Kfir jet fighter. Born in Lithuania in 1925, he emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. Later he served two years in the U.S. Army and studied aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1948 he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi and met Menachem Begin. In 1980, while he was serving as a right-wing legislator who had opposed the peace treaty with Egypt, Arens turned down the chance to become Ezer Weizman's successor as Defense Minister, apparently because he did not want to be in charge...
...always the outsider: as a Jewish youth in Poland when the Nazis were on the march; as leader of the Jewish underground organization, the Irgun, when the Jews were fighting the British in Palestine for their own state; as the opposition leader against the dominant Labor Party for 26 long years in the Israeli Knesset. When Menachem Begin triumphantly led his right-wing Likud coalition to an upset victory in 1977, he was a stubbornly independent leader who was unlike any the young nation had ever had as Prime Minister...
...life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting Jew." After a year in Soviet prisons, Begin went to Palestine and in swift order was leading the Irgun's violently anti-Arab and anti-British campaigns...