Word: zvai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JERUSALEM, February 10 A British military court sentenced three suspected members of lrgun Zvai Legion to the gallows today shortly after official Palestine Jewry formally rejected a British request to cooperate with the police and military in combatting terrorism...
...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...
...partition plan was almost certain to split Jewish ranks. The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang, neck-deep in guerrilla warfare against the British, would turn just as eagerly on Jewish "appeasers." In a showdown, moderate Zionists would probably have the support of Haganah, largest of the underground groups. The compromise note was already sounded by "Voice of Israel," the Haganah radio station, which last week condemned violence and "purposeless terror...