History Channel's Take on the Irgun

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***The Key to an effective terrorist campaign is publicity*** another key is Fear The irgun realize this.

Who owns the Media, and how much publicity do "the terrorist get"

at the end of video 1 you will notice the murderous Gassings of Jews by the British soldiers, or could they be trying to prevent disease by killing lice. It is illegal to investigate these murderous gassings by British soldiers.

Photos of British troops stationed in Palestine

Menachem Begin on Hanging of Two British Sergeants - 1947

Note the Psychopath

Between 4 and 5 on Tuesday morning, July 29, 1947, the Acre prison gallows were operated three times in quick succession. Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss and Meir Nakar, Irgun fighters who had participated in the May 4th prison break which set free 41 Irgun and Lehi ( Stern ) members from that same Acre prison, were hanged by Captain Clough. Thirteen hours later, at 6 p.m., in a disused diamond polishing workshop in Netanya, Amihai Paglin, Irgun operations chief, hanged Clifford Martin and Marvin Paice, soldiers in the British army in Mandatory Palestine. They had been held as hostages in a vain attempt to dissuade the British from applying the death sentence.

On the first day of July 1947, a small group of British soldiers, Jewish residents, and newspaper reporters was making its way through a thicket of eucalyptus trees at the outskirts of Netanya, a small town north of Tel-Aviv. They were searching the woods to find the dead bodies of two British sergeants, Clifford Martin and Marvyn Paice, who were killed several days earlier by the Etzel or Irgun, the National Military Organization a dissident Zionist underground movement. As they approached their target ,a horrifying sight appeared. The corpses of the two soldiers were hanging from a tree, their shirts covering their heads, dry blood that had dripped from their open mouths staining their close, and a short statement attached to their chests. The note explained that the two were executed after an Irgun court had heard them testify to their crimes and added that the two asked for pardon but the court rejected their plea. The note neither mentioned nor tried to hide the vengeful character of this deed. The execution of three Irgun members several days earlier by a British military court left little room for doubt.

Less than an hour after the corpses of the dead sergeants were found, Ben-Ami, the Mayor of Netanya distributed the following declaration to the press: "Of all the crimes that took place till this day on this land, this is the most grievous and disgusting one and will stain the purity of our peoples struggle for freedom. May this act of hanging remain as a sign of Cain on the doers of this disgraceful deed! The heavens and the earth are my witnesses", continued the Mayor, "that most of our population took desperate measures to free the hostages and prevent this shame. Ben-Ami was expressing, the mainstream response of the Yishuv (the Zionist establishment), which opposed the terrorist attacks of the Irgun not least out of fear for British retaliation.

For the Irgun, the killing of the two British sergeants had a different significance. It was clearly not an extraordinary crime of violence, but nor was it an ordinary attack against British military targets. The British soldiers were kidnapped in an attempt to deter the British authorities from executing three Irgun members who were caught during a previous operation the break-in to the most guarded prison-house in Akko and the release of its Jewish inmates.

The Irgun had good reason to hope that the British would yield to their demand to abolish the death penalty, as they did in the past, when a similar threat was posed. The kidnapping of the two British sergeants, however, did not have the expected impact. The reason is not fully clear, but it would seem that the British believed that the situation in Palestine was gradually getting out of control, and that they had to show a firm hand. The Irgun captives were thus executed despite the threat, and Martin and Paice were expected to pay the price. A grave decision was now facing the Irgun's leadership, but there was no real hesitation, it was clear that the execution of the sergeants would take place.

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We gave a warning, we swear! believe us

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One of Rabin's proudest military moments came on June 22, 1948. Menachem Begin's Irgun, another Israeli military group, was in the midst of negotiating a pact with David Ben-Gurion under which Irgun would join the new Israeli Defense Force. Meanwhile, the Irgun had loaded a ship, the Altalena, with weapons and Jewish fighters (many of them Holocaust survivors) to join the IDF. Ben-Gurion ordered that the Altalena be fired upon. Rabin carried out his orders to the letter. Later, Rabin bragged how he had "bumped them off on the deck of the burning ship and while they were trying to swim to safety." Sixteen Jews were killed, many shot while swimming to shore.