Word: zvai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serving the cause of freedom and humanity and causing the creation of the State of Israel, Menachim Beigin, commander of Irgun Zvai Leumi...
...nosed in toward the shores of Israel. She called herself the Altalena now, and aboard were 750 supporters of the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi and enough weapons and ammunition (so the Irgun boasted) to arm a brigade of 6,000. In defiance of the U.N. truce and of the Israeli government, the Irgun intended to land the arms...
This week Bernadotte left for the Greek island of Rhodes to begin the second and most difficult part of his job-to arrange a long-term settlement between Jews and Arabs. He left behind a sputtering Palestine. The Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi accused the Israeli government, in accepting the truce, of "submitting to shame rather than continuing the struggle." The implied threat to break the truce brought a sharp statement from Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "The Government will not suffer any attempt to be made by anyone in our midst to break the truce...
Already, however, some extremists have been advising the Jews to grab what they could. Recently, rugged young recruits, impressed by the Jewish terrorists' reputation for toughness and efficiency, have swelled the fighting forces of the Irgun Zvai Leumi to about 4,000, the ranks of civilian collaborators to about 10,000. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel. But he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work...
...farms and factories going. For the moment the accent had to be on the military phase. In their blitz of the past two weeks the Jews had tried to consolidate their coastal base of operations from Haifa to below Tel Aviv. To get rid of one Arab enclave, Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists tried to capture Jaffa, which the U.N. partition plan gave to the Arabs. British troops checked the Irgun attack...