Word: leumi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tense Palestine recalled that Irgun Zvai Leumi, underground group committed to active resistance against the British, had threatened reprisals "as soon as a military court condemns one of our soldiers...
...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...
Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Zionist terrorist organization, had threatened to extend its violence to the British Isles...
Both the Stern Group and the Irgun Zevai Leumi, whose single aim to rid Palestine of the British is almost pathological, are offshoots of the Revisionist Party, a non-Zionist organization that split from the world movement in the 1920's. They are responsible to no one. The Irgun, larger of the two, "specializes" in sabotage. The Stern Group, an outfit of only a few hundred, are masters at assassination...