Maybe Palestinians terrorists learned from Israelis and their fight for independence. Why is Israel surprised that these acts are perpetrated on their people?
Yitzhak Shamir was a member of two militant Jewish underground organizations which were active before Israel gained its independence in 1948: first, the Irgun Zva'i Leumi (known as the "Irgun" or "organization") and later, the Lohamei Herut Israel ("Lehi," also known as the Stern Gang). Both groups were active in counter-terrorist acts against Arabs as well as sabotage against the British. Shamir was arrested by the British on two different occasions, but escaped both times.
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Yitzhak Yizernitzky was one of the Jewish extremists who, between 1937 and 1939, killed more than 300 Arab civilians by machine-gunning passing buses and bombing open air restaurants and marketplaces. On one July day in 1938, they rolled an oil drum laden with explosives downhill into a bus stop in Haifa, killing 35 men, women and children and leaving others maimed and bleeding. Yizernitzky was captured and interned by the British in Eritrea. With other prisoners he dug his way out of the prison camp, however, and smuggled himself back to Palestine early in 1948. He also adopted a Hebrew name, Yitzhak Shamir.
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At that time, he became the leader of the liberation movement Irgun Tzvi Leumi- Etzel- whose means were more violent than the mainstream Haganah, with which he disagreed over how to push the British out of Palestine.
In 1946, under Menachem Begin's leadership, the Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where the British were headquartered. Some 90 people- Jews and Arabs, as well as British- were killed, despite warnings that there would be a bombing.
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Ariel Sharon, unit '101' and Qibya
Israeli historian Avi Shlaim describes the massacre thus: "Sharon's order was to penetrate Qibya, blow up houses and inflict heavy casualties on its inhabitants. His success in carrying out the order surpassed all expectations. The full and macabre story of what happened at Qibya wasrevealed only during the morning after the attack. The village had been reduced to rubble: forty-five houses had been blown up, and sixty-nine civilians, two thirds of them women and children, had been killed. Sharon and his men claimed that they believed that all the inhabitants had run away and that they had no idea that anyone was hiding inside the houses." The UN observer on the scene reached a different conclusion: "One story was repeated time after time: the bullet splintered door, the body sprawled across the threshhold, indicating that the inhabitants had been forced by heavy fire to stay inside until their homes were blown up over them." The slaughter in Qibya was described contemporaneously in a letter to the president of the United Nations Security Council dated 16 October 1953 (S/3113) from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Jordan to the United States. On 14 October 1953 at 9:30 at night, he wrote, Israeli troops launched a battalion-scale attack on the village of Qibya in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (at the time the West Bank was annexed to Jordan).
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The First Palestinian War
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