Lehi (group): Lehi, Yitzhak Shamir, Deir Yassin massacre, Amos Kenan, Irgun and Lehi internment in Africa, Avraham Stern, Israel Eldad - Softcover

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9781155882017: Lehi (group): Lehi, Yitzhak Shamir, Deir Yassin massacre, Amos Kenan, Irgun and Lehi internment in Africa, Avraham Stern, Israel Eldad

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ISBN 10: 1155882016 ISBN 13: 9781155882017

Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series, 2011

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Lehi, Yitzhak Shamir, Deir Yassin massacre, Amos Kenan, Irgun and Lehi internment in Africa, Avraham Stern, Israel Eldad, Uri Zvi Grinberg, Yaakov Banai, Yehoshua Zettler, Yehoshua Cohen, Semitic Action, Geulah Cohen, Nathan Yellin-Mor, Hanoch Kalai, Kingdom of Israel, Yaakov Heruti, Night of the Trains, Hamaas, Boaz Evron, Fighters' List, Eliyahu Bet-Zuri, Maxim Ghilan, Eliyahu Hakim, David Stern, Baruch Korff. Excerpt: The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Arab village of roughly 600 people. The assault occurred as Jewish militia sought to relieve the blockade of Jerusalem during the civil war that preceded the end of British rule in Palestine. Around 107 villagers were killed during and after the battle for the village, including women and children-some were shot, while others died when hand grenades were thrown into their homes. Several villagers were taken prisoner and may have been killed after being paraded through the streets of West Jerusalem, though accounts vary. Four of the attackers died, with around 35 injured. The killings were condemned by the leadership of the Haganah-the Jewish community's main paramilitary force-and by the area's two chief rabbis. The Jewish Agency for Israel sent Jordan's King Abdullah a letter of apology, which he rebuffed. The deaths became a pivotal event in the Arab-Israeli conflict for their demographic and military consequences. The narrative was embellished and used by various parties to attack each other-by the Palestinians to besmirch Palestine's Jewish community and subsequently Israel; by the Haganah to play down their own role in the affair; and later by the Israeli Left to accuse the Irgun and Lehi of violating the Jewish pri...

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