Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August 8th, the "Voice of Israel," underground radio of Haganah, the Jewish. Resistance Movement, broadcast these words to the British: "We say to you that we will regard any attack made on the refugees as an attack on ourselves. An injury to their lives and safety will be regarded as an injury to our lives and safety. Our fight is for them and with them. Everything we have built in this country is for them...
...Palestine before World War I, and an organization called Hashomer, "The Watchman," was formed. At first they were merely armed guards for the new agricultural settlements, but with the end of the war, the idea of an all-inclusive defense organization took root. With returned veterans of the Jewish Legion of Allenby's Middle Eastern British Army, a nucleus of Haganah was formed...
Haganah first paid off in 1929, when, after the British had withdrawn all licenses for the possession of weapons in Jewish settlements, two hundred Jews were massacred by Arab raiders. Arab onslaughts continued. Where the Jews had "illegal" arms, they protected themselves. Where they had none, it was slaughter. The communities were convinced they could not depend on British protection and steps were taken to train and arm a large-scale defense organization...
Today, Haganah regards defense in a different light. Where once defense meant merely protection against Bedouin raiders, it is now the defense of the lives and the futures of hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees whose only hope is Palestine...
Then New York City's flag-waving little Representative Sol Bloom sauntered in and talked & talked about the Palestine issue and the Jewish vote. Harry Truman listened intently...