posted on Dec, 9 2002 @ 10:08 AM
Soon after the end of world II, there were three basic para-military Zionist
organizations in Palestine, terrorizing the Palestinians, with specific
purpose of driving them out of their cities, towns, and villages, and
expropriating their properties, and finally trying to wipe Palestine's name
from world history.
These para-military organizations were the called the Haganah, which was
formed before the British Mandate, when the Jewish colonizers (settlers) had
formed a group of mounted armed watchmen called "Hashomar", and with the
advent of the British Mandate, it became the Haganah (Defense). With a
membership of 60,000 Zionist Jews, the Haganah had a field army of 16,000
trained men and a unit called Palmach, which was full-time force, numbering
about 6,000. The Irgun Zvai Leumi grew out of the Haganah and its Palmach
branch in 1933, since it was not ready to obey the Jewish Agency, which
sought to dilute the terror of the Haganah in order not to lose its
respectability. The Irgun included between 3,000 and 5,000 armed terrorists,
and. In 1939, one of Irgun's commanding officers, Abraham Stern, left the
parent organization and formed the Stern Gang, numbering some 200 to 300
dangerous fanatics.
Those terrorist organizations committed systematic massacres against the
Palestinians, after the U.N partition plan of 1947 and till the end of the
British Mandate on May 14, 1948, starting with a massacre in the village of
Sheikh Breik in 1947.