Word: irgun
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...Jews have a large publicity mill, with little real grist. Haganah, hard-pressed by the Arabs and taunted by the Irgun and Stern groups, is terrified of news which might affect "security" or show Haganah in anything but glorious victory...
...coastal farms and factories going. For the moment the accent had to be on the military phase. In their blitz of the past two weeks the Jews had tried to consolidate their coastal base of operations from Haifa to below Tel Aviv. To get rid of one Arab enclave, Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists tried to capture Jaffa, which the U.N. partition plan gave to the Arabs. British troops checked the Irgun attack...
Exploits in Savagery. Elsewhere, savage raids turned into brutal massacres. Four miles from Kastel, about 100 Jews (two-thirds Irgun, one-third Stern Gang) swept into the village of Deir Yesin at dawn, blew up its huts with demolition charges. More than 200 Arabs, half of them women & children, died in the slaughter. The rest of the village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer...
...drove off British police who tried to help rescue the wounded. Then, in a series of reprisal attacks, they killed nine British soldiers, wounded at least as many. Jerusalem was all but paralyzed as armed bands of Britons, Arabs and Jews prepared for more fighting. Said the terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi: "As from today all British personnel, military and police, entering Jewish sections, will be subject to execution...
...terrorists had added a distinctive touch; they had booby-trapped one of their victims. When searchers cut down Martin's body, it touched off a contact mine set by the Irgun. His body was blasted to nothingness, Paice's was mutilated, a British officer was wounded...