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...fighter. Born in Lithuania in 1925, he emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. Later he served two years in the U.S. Army and studied aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1948 he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi and met Menachem Begin. In 1980, while he was serving as a right-wing legislator who had opposed the peace treaty with Egypt, Arens turned down the chance to become Ezer Weizman's successor as Defense Minister, apparently because he did not want to be in charge of the dismantling...
...summarizing, then, we see that terrorism exists on both sides--one could go into the entire history of such Israeli terrorist organizations as the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Group that have collaborated with the official armed forces of the Jewish Agency (Haganah and Palmuch) and committed atrocities in which many innocent Palestinian civilian lives have been taken. The same military and psychological tolls that Feldstein describes as being suffered by kibbutzniks have also been endured on the Arab side where Palestinian refugees and southern Lebanese villages have instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological...
Your story about two British soldiers who were tortured and killed by the Irgun Zvai Leumi is an insulting distortion of the true facts...
...West Bank, cheered and sang as their distinguished guest presented a Torah scroll for the settlement's new synagogue. For others, though, these were chilling words in a chilling context. The speaker was Menachem Begin, 63, onetime leader of the anti-British, anti-Arab terrorist group known as Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), who almost certainly will be Israel's next Premier. In a stunning upset victory, Begin's Likud (Unity) coalition last week became the dominant bloc in Israel's parliament, replacing a shattered, scandal-ridden Labor alignment that had governed the Jewish state since its founding...
...Nazis in 1940 (his parents and a brother were killed), he escaped to Lithuania but was arrested by the Russians for Zionist activities and briefly imprisoned. After his release, he joined the Polish army and was sent to Palestine where, in 1943, he deserted and joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi...