August 04, 2014
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The militant paramilitary Zionist group Irgun bombed the living screaming hell out of Mandatory Palestine through the 1930s and 40s to such an extent that such ordinarily Jew-friendly personages as Winston Churchill, Hannah Arendt, and Albert Einstein denounced them as terrorists. Their most dramatic flourish was the 1946 King David Hotel bombing, which killed 96 and left another 46 injured.
Aiding and abetting Irgun in 1948’s Deir Yassin massacre“a nighttime village attack in which an estimated 250 or so Arab men, women, and children were slaughtered”was an even more radical Zionist underground terrorist organization known as Lehi, AKA the Stern Gang. Their stated goal was the formation of “a new totalitarian Hebrew republic.” Viewing their chief enemy as the British forces that controlled Mandatory Palestine, Lehi even attempted to form an alliance with Nazi Germany in the early years of World War II. In December of 1940, Lehi contacted German authorities offering support against England if Germany agreed to assist in mass emigration of Jews out of Europe and into what they claimed was their ancestral homeland. They felt a common bond with the Nazis regarding the primacy of blood and soil.
The Stern Gang engaged in bank robberies, bombings, and assassinations”even of a Swedish diplomat who’d helped negotiate the release of Jews from concentration camps. They openly self-identified as genocidal “terrorists” who had no moral qualms about exterminating their enemies “to the last man”:
Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. … We have before us the command of the Torah, whose morality surpasses that of any other body of laws in the world: “Ye shall blot them out to the last man.”
Unashamedly legitimizing a self-described terrorist organization that had sought an alliance with Nazi Germany, in 1980 Israel honored the group by awarding the Lehi ribbon to former members.
From 1977-1983, former Irgun leader Menachem Begin served as Prime Minister of Israel. From 1986-1992, one-time Lehi leader Yitzhak Shamir assumed the Zionist state’s top spot.
After Israel was formally established in 1948, all of the “terrorist” activity magically ceased because the new nation had acquired the semantic right to pin the “terrorist” label on all violent underdogs who challenged their power. So when modern Israel bombs villages and slaughters children these days, they are not terrorists”they are merely keeping the peace.
