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קול ציון הלוחמת : תחנת השדור של הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ-ישראל : שידור מיום כב' טבת תש"ח (4.1.48)
Ḳol Tsiyon ha-Loḥemet : Taḥanat ha-shidur shel ha-Irgun ha-Tsevaʼi ha-Leʼumi be-Erets-Yiśraʼel : shidur mi-yom 22 Ṭevet 708 (4.1.48).
1948
Irgun statement issued in response to violence at a Haifa oil refinery, where six Arabs were killed in an Irgun attack and 39 Jews were subsequently killed by Arab workers. The document argues that the killings of the Jewish workers were premeditated rather than a spontaneous retaliation for the initial attack. It also accuses the Haganah of exploiting the incident to discredit the Irgun at a time when the two organizations were negotiating cooperation ahead of Israel’s War of Independence.
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Underground Publications and Ephemera Printed in Palestine at End of the Palestine Mandate
These documents capture a fascinating moment in Jewish history, a turmoil-filled “interregnum” of sorts, between the destruction of European Jewry in World War II and the establishment of Israel: the violent fight against the British, efforts to rescue Jewish refugees in Europe and smuggle them into Eretz Israel, diplomatic maneuvering over the end of the British Mandate, the proposed partition of Palestine, and anticipation of a war with the Arab world. But this collection does more than merely capture this moment. It adds nuance and layers to a dominant discourse that too often suffers from overly simplistic, ahistorical, and context-free narratives about the history of Zionism, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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- [Israel] : Irgun, 1948.
- Language
- Hebrew
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