Mani Shankar Aiyar writes: First came Zionist terror https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/mani-shankar-aiyar-writes-first-came-zionist-terror-8999423/
Peace can come only through dialogue, not by increasing but de-escalating violence, and thus ensuring justice for all October 28, 2023
The Zionist terrorists sought and obtained the collaboration of Haganah, the official armed wing of the Zionist forces, as “a Jewish army” designed to secure “eventual Jewish military supremacy in Palestine”. They also obtained the cooperation and collaboration of Palmach, a wing comprising the “crack forces” of Haganah, composed mainly of “Jews from the east who looked and spoke like Arabs”, and specially trained for terrorism, sabotage and ruthless assassination. Palmach’s numbers included Yigal Allon, another future PM of Israel, the infamous Moshe Dayan, future Defence Minister of the country, as well as Itzhak Shamir, a future Speaker of the Israeli Knesset. These groups were conjoined with the most determined terrorist group of all, Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organisation, generally known as “Irgun”), the terrorist wing of the Revisionist Party that opposed the Jewish Agency that was deemed by the British Mandatory authorities to be the majority representative of the Yishuv (Hebrew for the Jewish immigrants into Palestine). In the final stages of the struggle for the State of Israel, the activities of these groups were coordinated by Tenuat Hameri Ha’ivri (Jewish Resistance Movement), the “single agency which would control the common fight”. This was done with the blessings of the hitherto non-violent Jewish Agency run by David Ben-Gurion, the first PM,