1947: A Year of Zionist Terror

1947: A Year of Terror

Jan. 12—Four killed by Irgun terrorist bombing of British headquarters.

Jan. 13—Arab kidnapped and castrated by Jewish terrorists.

March 1—Sixteen Britons killed by Jewish terrorists/Britain invokes martial law

March 10—Jewish informer killed by Jewish terrorists.

March 11—Two British soldiers killed by Jewish terrorists.

April 8—British constable killed by Jewish terrorists.

April 8—Jewish boy killed by British troops.

April 8—Jew beaten to death by Arabs.

April 22—Eight killed in Jewish terrorist bombing of the Cairo-Haifa train.

April 25—Five killed in Jewish terrorist bombing of British camp.

April 26—British police official killed by Jewish terrorist.

May 8—Three Jewish shops in Tel Aviv whose owners refused to contribute to Jewish terrorist groups burned down by Jewish terrorists.

May 8—Jew killed near Tel Aviv by Arab terrorists.

May 12—Two British policemen killed in Jewish Jerusalem.

May 15—British policeman killed in terrorist ambush.

May 15—Two British soldiers killed in terrorist Stern Gang attack.

May 16—Two British police officers killed by terrorists.

May 18—One Jew killed, one wounded by Arab terrorists.

June 5—Jewish terrorists introduce letter bombs in Middle East.

June 28—Four British soldiers killed in Jewish terrorist raids.

July 3—“Anti-terrorist” Jewish families beaten up by Irgunists.

July 18—British soldier killed by Jewish terrorists.

July 19—Another British soldier killed by Jewish terrorists.

July 20—Yet another British soldier killed by Jewish terrorists.

July 23—65 Jews killed when Haganah sinks immigration ship.

July 26—Two British soldiers killed in booby trap.

July 29—Three Jews executed by hanging. Jewish terrorists retaliate by hanging two British soldiers.

Aug. 5—Three British police killed by bomb; plot discovered to poison the water supply of non-Jewish parts of Jerusalem with botulism and other bacteria.

Aug. 10—Four Jews killed in Arab terror attack on Tel Aviv café.

Aug. 12—Five Jews, four Arabs killed, others injured, in spread of violent incidents over three days.

Aug. 15—Twelve Palestinians killed in raid by Haganah troops.

Aug. 18—Shops of five Jews in Tel Aviv destroyed by Jewish terrorists.

Aug. 23—Five Arabs of one family—two men, a woman and two children—killed by Jewish terrorists.

Sept. 7—French foil Stern Gang plot to air bomb London.

Sept. 21—British messenger killed by Jewish terrorists.

Sept. 26—Four British policemen killed in Irgun terrorist bank robbery.

Sept. 27—Illegal Jewish immigrant killed by British.

Sept. 29—13 killed, 53 wounded in Irgun terrorist attack on British police station.

Oct. 4—Two Jews killed in ambush, two Arabs killed in retaliation.

Oct. 13—Two British troops killed by Jewish terrorists in Jerusalem.

Oct. 26—Jewish settlement policeman found killed near Gaza.

Nov. 3—Jewish policeman killed, reportedly by Stern Gang after refusing to reveal secret police matters. 

Nov. 12—21 killed in British-Jewish clashes.

Nov. 14—Jewish terrorists kill 4 Britons in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

Nov. 30—Violent riots erupt throughout Arab world following adoption of U.N. partition plan. In Palestine, seven Jews killed and eight wounded in the first day. All told, during the first week at least 159 persons were killed in the Middle East, 66 of them in Palestine. 

Dec. 2—Palestinians begin 3-day protest strike; 20 Jews, 15 Arabs killed. Five Arabs and seven Jews were killed the next day during a six-hour battle on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa border. 

Dec. 13—35 Palestinian civilians killed in Jewish terrorist attacks.

Dec. 14—14 Jews killed by Arab Legion in retaliation.

Dec. 18—Palmach (“assault companies”) kills 10 Arabs, including 5 children, in nighttime raid on northern Galilee village of Khissas. The following day Haganah troops blew up the home of the village elder of Qazaza in central Palestine, killing several inhabitants. Wrote The Times of London: “While the Jews are suffering mainly through sniping at their road convoys, the Arabs have lost many lives through Jewish assaults on their villages.” 

Dec. 20—Haganah raid on village of Qazaza kills one Palestinian.

Dec. 24—Stern Gang member killed for betrayal of another member.

Dec. 25—16 Arabs, Jews and British killed on Christmas.

Dec. 25—Palestinian landowner killed for selling land to Jews.

Dec. 26—Ben-Gurion proposes major offensive to reduce Arab population.

Dec. 26—Jewish terrorists get $107,000 in heists of diamond plants.

Dec. 29—14 Arabs killed by Irgun bomb in Jerusalem.

Dec. 29—Irgun flogs British major and three sergeants.

Dec. 30—41 Jews, 6 Arabs killed in riot sparked by Stern Gang.

Dec. 31—Irgun claims to have killed 374 Arabs and British during year.

—D.N.

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https://www.wrmea.org/006-may-june/hamas-a-pale-image-of-the-jewish-irgun-and-lehi-gangs.html

 'Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Speech at the Special Knesset Session Marking 100 Years Since the Birth of the Late Avraham Stern (“Yair”), de zionistische terrorist van de LEHI.

De Stern Bende was een van de meest meedogenloze Joodse terroristen-groeperingen: 

It carried out the November 1944 assassination in Cairo of Lord Moyne, along with several attacks on the British administration in Palestine. It was described as a terrorist organization by the British authorities[6] and was banned by the newly-formed Israeli government under an anti-terrorism law passed three days after the group's September 1948 assassination of the UN mediator Folke Bernadotte.[7] The United Nations Security Council called the assassins "a criminal group of terrorists,"[8] and Lehi was similarly condemned by subsequent United Nations mediator Ralph Bunche.[9]

Desondanks, of beter nog, juist dankzij deze terreur werd hij in 2008 door het Israelische parlement herdacht met de volgende woorden van premier Olmert:

Madam Speaker,

Honorable Minister,

Members of Knesset,

Yair Ben-Avraham Stern and Family,

LEHI Veterans,

Friends and Admirers of “Yair”,

Today, the Knesset honors the memory of Avraham Stern, “Yair”, fighter for the freedom of Israel, commander of the fighting underground, philosopher, poet and intellect, lover of his people and his country, zealous and passionate in his beliefs, desperately dedicated to his mission.

One hundred years have passed since “Yair” was born, but he only lived for 35 stormy years until he was murdered in the prime of his life, in cold blood, by an officer of the British secret police in a safe house in the Florentine neighborhood of Tel Aviv.  On the monument erected in his memory by his comrades and subordinates on the way to Jerusalem, a line from his poem, “For You Are Sacred to Me, My Homeland!” is engraved:

 “For you are sacred to me, my Homeland

 According to Jewish law.

 A bowing maidservant, kneeling and lost,

 I am a husband to you and redeemer---

 He will come, the great one will certainly come,

 The dismantler of the burden, the redeemer,

 He who raises up the bent and releases the chains 

 A day of freedom in the Kingdom of Israel.”

The shortness of “Yair”’s life – the master of the plot – could serve as inspiration for a gifted scriptwriter or playwright.  The writer Moshe Shamir, at the end of his life, wrote an impressive biographical novel about “Yair”.  What is missing in the story of “Yair”’s life?  Revolution, strong emotions, tensions and a combination of strong urges for the love of a beautiful, captivating woman and for total, pure loyalty to national liberation; command of a small group of fighters challenging a huge power; a life lived in darkness and underground, with a price on his head as a wanted criminal; and in between – enthusiastic and eloquent writing expressive poetry and liturgy, breath-taking in their power, sermons of sacrifice and martyrdom on the altar of freedom – fire and blood and pillars of smoke, words of contemplation and philosophy, classical studies and dreams and hallucinations about the thin line between the bold and the somnambulist.  These are the materials from which larger than life characters are built, the greatest of dramas, fascinating novellas from which the reader’s eye does not stray from the first page until the final line.

What was the secret of “Yair”’s power?  Where did his ability to unify underground fighters with opposing, even polar outlooks – religious and strictly secular, radical left and messianic right and those with “Canaanite” tendencies: Natan Yellin-Moore, Israel Eldad and Yitzhak Shamir; Amos Keinan and Geula Cohen and others – come from?

Avraham Stern was certainly not a great orator nor a leader that swept crowds off their feet.  He was not even really a fighter who bore weapons.  His influence spread in intimate groups, among enthusiastic young people who were fascinated by his maximalist, revolutionary, anti-imperialist and uncompromising teachings.  His truth was as sharp as a razor, straight and blunt without any opaqueness or obtuseness.  The goals he set were transcendent and optimistic and dedicated all means – blood, sword, sacrifice and death – to the idea: “redemption of the land – resurrection of the kingdom – renaissance of the nation”.

There is another thing which always strikes me when I think of this unique and special man.  His terrible loneliness, alone in a room - in his hiding place - alone with a small group of people, and with a fervent and unshakable belief that from that lonesome room, from that hiding place, would come forth a great change, one which would eventually lead to the redemption of the land and the people.  Off what did he think? We will never know how he coped with the terrible loneliness, waiting for the merciless and cruel murderer to come.  What did he hope for? What did he pray for? What did he long for? What was it he could not let go off?

As we mark 100 years since his birth, and 65 years since his murder, “Yair” deserves that the State of Israel should remember and commemorate him as one of the designers of the spirit of freedom and heroism, without which our nation would not have been reborn.  This does not mean that we must identify with all his teachings, because “Yair” paved a very independent path in the Zionist struggle.

Whatever reservations there may be, “Yair”’s contribution to the freedom of Israel cannot be denied.  The LEHI fighters who acted because of his inspiration made an important contribution, in belief and dedication, to the struggle for the rebirth and an end to the Mandate rule in the Land of Israel.

“Yair” is counted as one of the family of fighters towards whom I have a profound personal sentiment, despite the fact that the paths diverged.  “Yair”’s path was not the high road of the Zionist struggle, but it had dedicated and brave soldiers, those who were hanged from the gallows and courageous fighters who fell in battle.  All who were educated as to his greatness and bravery, even the most bitter of “Yair”’s rivals, are respectfully beholden to his and their valor.

“Yair” was that match which burned and kindled a large flame.  May his memory be blessed."

Likoed Nederland vereert deze terrorist nog steeds. Gelukkig moeten fanatieke zionisten die met geweld streven naar een Groot Israel van de Nijl tot aan de Eufraat een steeds hogere prijs betalen voor hun terreur. Want deze Joodse zionisten geloven alleen in het zwaard.