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...economics of terrorism tells more about its limited effectiveness than its causes. The bloody activities of the Irgun and the Stern Gang had much less to do with establishing Israel in 1948 than the financial support of American Jews and the backing of the U.S. Government. Likewise, if there ever is a Palestinian state in the Middle East, it will owe its existence to the fabulous wealth and political leverage of OPEC Arabs, not to the murderous acts of Al-Fatah. As Laqueur, Parry and Psychiatrist Frederick J. Hacker demonstrate in their books, guerrilla tactics (as differentiated from partisan action...
...Israel forgotten her own terrorist-laden past? The Stern Gang and the Irgun were formed to undertake terrorist acts to help establish the state...
...opposition. Ironically, Rabin's sharpest critic in the Knesset, Likud Bloc Leader Menachem Begin, had a curious tie to the Savoy Hotel. Begin used the hotel as a hideout in the days before Israeli independence, when he battled the British as leader of the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi...
Ironically, Israel itself might not exist today had it not been for terrorists. The Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang, two militant Jewish groups of the '30s and '40s, pressured the British to give up their mandate over Palestine through bombs and assassinations and tried to force the Arabs out through simple murder. Lord Moyne, the British administrator for the Middle East, was killed in 1944 in Cairo by the Stern Gang, which also assassinated Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, the U.N. mediator in Palestine, in 1948. The most infamous act of all was the murder...
...enemies called us terrorists, our friends patriots," wrote Menachem Begin, head of the Irgun, in words that could be used by any terrorist at any time. Begin has found his past associations no handicap in Israel; he now sits in the Knesset as leader of the opposition Likud bloc. Another Irgun member, Arie Ben-Eliezer, served as deputy speaker of the Knesset, and Nathan Yellin-Mor, a leader of the Stern Gang, won a seat in the Israeli parliament only a few months after the murder of Count Bernadotte...