RedKnight
15th March 2007, 01:09
The King David Hotel Bombing (1946)
(A Bombing which they said was justified in order to end the Occupation of Palestine)
"The Palestinians are a victious people."
"They only understand violence, they blow up bombs and murder civilians"
"The Jews don't act like this"
These are common words in 2007 from the Right-Wing Zionists. But are they true? Did you know that the RIght-Wing Zionists themselves committed terrorist attacks which murdered civilians?
After the First Wold War the British Empire took over Palestine from the Turkish. The British Government claimed that their occupation was about helping the local Jews and Arabs live peacfully together. But the truth was that the Imperial British Army was not a charity and was not in Palestine to help anyone except for themselves. As a result both Jews and Arabs suffered from the Occupation, with anger and violence erupting in responce.
In the 1940s a group named Irgun (some call it Etzel) was the established Right-Wing of the Zionist Movement in Palestine. They were also the violent wing of the Zionist movement. During the British Occupation they were involved in a series of terrorist attacks (or what they called "Brave Acts of Patriotism") in order to get the British Empire to leave Palestine. The most well-known of these Brave Acts of Patriotism was The King David Hotel Bombing which occurred on 22nd July, 1946. This was a well-plan act with the guideness of the Irgun's Leader and future Prime Minster, Menachem Begin. His militia used a whole series of spies, enginerring and tactics in order to carry out their attacks.
The King David Hotel was a political base for the British and a succsseful attack would send a signal to the British that they need to end the Occupation. It was a brilliant act of mass-murder and one which Hamas would be proud of. Explosives and bomb divisises were created in mini-facotires and taken into the hotel by members of the Irgun. These members were disguised as Arab Workers and driven by trained get-away drivers to the target. They managed to get past Britain's heavy Hotel security without a problem. The explosives were carefully placed and timed for 30mins.
The only error was upon leaving the hotel, the British guards released that they were terrorists and opened-fire on the Irgun members. At the same time a warning call was made by another Irgun member to a operator in the hotel that a bomb was placed. The British did not believe the threat was serious and did not exacuate the building.
When the explosion occured it was huge and devasted a chunk of this 200-room and 7-floor bulding. In total 91 people were killed and many more dreadfully injured. The dead were virutally all non-soldiers and mainly workers and normal civilians including 17 Jews. Across the world, the Jewish communties were in general against the attack. The hardline Zionists did support it but the Left-Zionists, Non-Zionists and the Jewish estbliahsments condemned it.
To this day the Irgun are seen as heroes by the Right. In July 2006 a celebration was made by the Right in Israel to celebrate the 60th anniverssary of the massacre. The star of the show was the man was has committed his life to fighting terrorism, Bibi Netanyahu. In the world of Netanyahu some attacks against Occupation Forces are Brave Acts of Patriotism (attacks by Jews or attacks by US Government) and some attacks against Occupation Forces are Cowardly Acts of Terrorism (attacks by Arabs and other dark skinned people).
The Right make a weak distinction saying that it was not terrorism because a warning call was made before. All neutral jounralists and analyists have laughed this off as a joke because bomb scares are regularly called into bulidings which authorities do not sake seriously (such as to Jewish schools, to the Knesset and to the White House). Furthrmore the Hezbollah did warn Israel that they will lauch missiles against Haifa (in the war of Summer 2006) yet the Hezbollah are still regarded as terrorists. The one real difference with the Hezbollah and the Irgun was that they were not fighting a Jihad or Jewish Holy War. The reason for this is that they were a deeply secular group and hated the non-Zionists and non-violent religious Jews.
The King Daivd Hotel Bombing came out of human anger and out of a deisre to be free. It had nothing to do with Jews being aggiressive in nature nor to do with Jewish culuture being aggressive (this is what the Right-Wing in Britain claimed at the time) . The bombing was mass murder and must be condemned by it was the Occupation Forces and the opporession of the Occupation which created such anger in the minds of the Jews that lead to such a horrific act.
No Occupation No Terrorism!
http://www.left-wing.net/history/kingdavidhotel.htm
(A Bombing which they said was justified in order to end the Occupation of Palestine)
"The Palestinians are a victious people."
"They only understand violence, they blow up bombs and murder civilians"
"The Jews don't act like this"
These are common words in 2007 from the Right-Wing Zionists. But are they true? Did you know that the RIght-Wing Zionists themselves committed terrorist attacks which murdered civilians?
After the First Wold War the British Empire took over Palestine from the Turkish. The British Government claimed that their occupation was about helping the local Jews and Arabs live peacfully together. But the truth was that the Imperial British Army was not a charity and was not in Palestine to help anyone except for themselves. As a result both Jews and Arabs suffered from the Occupation, with anger and violence erupting in responce.
In the 1940s a group named Irgun (some call it Etzel) was the established Right-Wing of the Zionist Movement in Palestine. They were also the violent wing of the Zionist movement. During the British Occupation they were involved in a series of terrorist attacks (or what they called "Brave Acts of Patriotism") in order to get the British Empire to leave Palestine. The most well-known of these Brave Acts of Patriotism was The King David Hotel Bombing which occurred on 22nd July, 1946. This was a well-plan act with the guideness of the Irgun's Leader and future Prime Minster, Menachem Begin. His militia used a whole series of spies, enginerring and tactics in order to carry out their attacks.
The King David Hotel was a political base for the British and a succsseful attack would send a signal to the British that they need to end the Occupation. It was a brilliant act of mass-murder and one which Hamas would be proud of. Explosives and bomb divisises were created in mini-facotires and taken into the hotel by members of the Irgun. These members were disguised as Arab Workers and driven by trained get-away drivers to the target. They managed to get past Britain's heavy Hotel security without a problem. The explosives were carefully placed and timed for 30mins.
The only error was upon leaving the hotel, the British guards released that they were terrorists and opened-fire on the Irgun members. At the same time a warning call was made by another Irgun member to a operator in the hotel that a bomb was placed. The British did not believe the threat was serious and did not exacuate the building.
When the explosion occured it was huge and devasted a chunk of this 200-room and 7-floor bulding. In total 91 people were killed and many more dreadfully injured. The dead were virutally all non-soldiers and mainly workers and normal civilians including 17 Jews. Across the world, the Jewish communties were in general against the attack. The hardline Zionists did support it but the Left-Zionists, Non-Zionists and the Jewish estbliahsments condemned it.
To this day the Irgun are seen as heroes by the Right. In July 2006 a celebration was made by the Right in Israel to celebrate the 60th anniverssary of the massacre. The star of the show was the man was has committed his life to fighting terrorism, Bibi Netanyahu. In the world of Netanyahu some attacks against Occupation Forces are Brave Acts of Patriotism (attacks by Jews or attacks by US Government) and some attacks against Occupation Forces are Cowardly Acts of Terrorism (attacks by Arabs and other dark skinned people).
The Right make a weak distinction saying that it was not terrorism because a warning call was made before. All neutral jounralists and analyists have laughed this off as a joke because bomb scares are regularly called into bulidings which authorities do not sake seriously (such as to Jewish schools, to the Knesset and to the White House). Furthrmore the Hezbollah did warn Israel that they will lauch missiles against Haifa (in the war of Summer 2006) yet the Hezbollah are still regarded as terrorists. The one real difference with the Hezbollah and the Irgun was that they were not fighting a Jihad or Jewish Holy War. The reason for this is that they were a deeply secular group and hated the non-Zionists and non-violent religious Jews.
The King Daivd Hotel Bombing came out of human anger and out of a deisre to be free. It had nothing to do with Jews being aggiressive in nature nor to do with Jewish culuture being aggressive (this is what the Right-Wing in Britain claimed at the time) . The bombing was mass murder and must be condemned by it was the Occupation Forces and the opporession of the Occupation which created such anger in the minds of the Jews that lead to such a horrific act.
No Occupation No Terrorism!
http://www.left-wing.net/history/kingdavidhotel.htm