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...nosed in toward the shores of Israel. She called herself the Altalena now, and aboard were 750 supporters of the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi and enough weapons and ammunition (so the Irgun boasted) to arm a brigade of 6,000. In defiance of the U.N. truce and of the Israeli government, the Irgun intended to land the arms...
...joined the youth organization of the Zionist Revisionists. In World War II the Russians arrested him as an "antisocial element" in Poland, exiled him to hard labor in Siberia, later released him to join the Polish army. When his unit reached Palestine, Beigin deserted and went underground with the Irgun. The British put a price of ?2,000 on his head...
Moderates of Ben-Gurion's socialist party, the strongest in Israel, had been willing to accept a limited Zionist state in the hope of achieving peace and order. Revisionists scorned, such compromise, demanded all of Palestine and Transjordan. The insignia of the Irgun (an outgrowth of the Revisionists) flaunted an arm holding a rifle above an outline of the old double Palestine-Transjordan mandate. Proclaimed its motto: Rak Kach (Only Thus). By terror and sabotage, the Irgun argued, the British could be driven from Palestine and the Arabs restrained...
This week Bernadotte left for the Greek island of Rhodes to begin the second and most difficult part of his job-to arrange a long-term settlement between Jews and Arabs. He left behind a sputtering Palestine. The Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi accused the Israeli government, in accepting the truce, of "submitting to shame rather than continuing the struggle." The implied threat to break the truce brought a sharp statement from Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "The Government will not suffer any attempt to be made by anyone in our midst to break the truce...
Already, however, some extremists have been advising the Jews to grab what they could. Recently, rugged young recruits, impressed by the Jewish terrorists' reputation for toughness and efficiency, have swelled the fighting forces of the Irgun Zvai Leumi to about 4,000, the ranks of civilian collaborators to about 10,000. 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...