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...Gruner, 33, a Jew with a bullet-crushed jaw and the corundum-hard eyes of an Irgun Zvai Leumi triggerman, stood before a Jerusalem Military Court. He was charged with taking part in a raid against a British police station last April. Asked to testify, he defiantly refused: "I am a soldier fighting for Zionism; I should be treated as a prisoner of war." Gruner was sentenced to death as a murderer. But what happened in Palestine last week looked more like war than common murder...
...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...