The Father of Modern Terrorism

Palestine was part of the British Empire and in 1916, during World War 1, the British were manipulated into promising the Jews a homeland in Palestine. This promise became known as the Balfour Declaration but it was soon reneged upon. 

Jewish settlements in Palestine were initially founded in the 1890s and population numbers increased gradually despite opposition from the local Arab population. Jewish immigration into Palestine changed from a small flow into a torrent when the Nazis came to power in Germany. Attempts were made to drive the British out and armed Jewish groups began to carry out terrorist acts against both British soldiers and local Palestinians. 

In 1939, the British were forced to declare that Jewish immigration to Palestine was banned but the terror campaign continued

On 6th November 1944, Lord Moyne (a British Minister Resident in the Middle East) was assassinated in Cairo by two members of the Jewish terrorist group, the Stern Gang. They were led by the future Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir. In the same year, he was also responsible for an assassination attempt on Harold MacMichael, the High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine. Yitzhak Shamir also masterminded another successful assassination in 1944 against the UN representative in the Middle East, Count Folke Bernadotte despite the fact that Count Bernadotte secured the release of 21 000 prisoners from German camps.


On July 22nd 1946, the future Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion ordered another future Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin to carry out a terrorist attack on the King David Hotel in Palestine. It was another attempt to drive the British out of Palestine and 91 people were killed with the majority being civilian. There were 28 British, 41 Arabs, 17 Jews and 5 others. Around 45 people were injured


At the time, the attack on the King David Hotel was the biggest death toll ever from a single terrorist attack. It was only surpassed by the Bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie more than 40 years later.

Menachem Begin proudly proclaimed himself as, 


"the father of modern terrorism." 

The war weary British left Palestine in 1947 and transferred control to the UN. The intention was to partition the country into two states, one Jewish and one Arab with Jerusalem as a neutral, international zone. This transfer was scheduled to take place on May 15th 1948. 

The UN had no right to give Arab property to anybody. At the time, the Jews owned 6% of the land in Palestine and the Arabs owned 94% but the the Jews were given 57% leaving the Arabs with only 43%. It was scandalous.

In the early hours of April 19th 1948, 132 Jewish terrorists from the Stern and the Irgun gang, (led by Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir) brutally massacred 200 men, women and children as they were sleeping peacefully in the Arab village of Deir Yassin.

In 1948, the Rothchilds bribed President Harry S. Truman by donating $2 000 000 to his campaign fund.   Israel was declared as a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine and, within half an hour, President Truman recognised it on behalf of the USA. They were the first foreign country to do so.    Following the UN transfer, the Israelis launched a military assault on the Arabs. Blaring loudspeakers were attached to Israeli trucks informing the Arabs that if they did not flee immediately, they would be slaughtered. 800 000 Arabs, with the recent memory of the Deir Yassin massacre on their mind, fled in panic. They asked for help from neighbouring Arab states but they were reluctant to get involved and those that did were no match for the Israelis and their up to date, Russian supplied military hardware.  The Jews now controlled 78% of  the land in Palestine compared to the 57% they had been illegally awarded by the UN.   The Palestinians, many of them Christian, were never paid compensation for their homes, property and businesses which were stolen from them during this illegal assault The majority ended up living in tents in slum refugee camps.  Also, in their hurry to get away, at least half of the Palestinians, left behind their birth certificates. Israel passed a law that only those who could prove their citizenship would be allowed to return. Approximately 400 000 Palestinians could not prove citizenship, could not return and thus lost all their property.   David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel. He candidly described Zionist aims in his diary dated 21st May 1948:   "The Achilles heel of the Arab coalition is the Lebanon. Muslim supremacy in this country is artificial and can easily be overthrown. A Christian State ought to be set up there, with its southern frontier on the river Litani. We would sign a treaty of alliance with this State. Thus when we have broken the strength of the Arab Legion and bombed Amman, we could wipe out Trans-Jordan, after that Syria would fall. And if Egypt still dared to make war on us, we would bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.   We should thus end the war and would have but paid to Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors."  In 1950, Israel passed a law of return which guaranteed every Jew worldwide the right to live in Israel. Palestinians, even though they had lived there for 1300 years, were denied the same right. Edmond James de Rothschild died in 1957 and he bequeathed a very large amount of money to Israel to pay for the construction of their parliament building. It was called the Knesset and he described it as:   "a symbol, in the eyes of all men, of the permanence of the State of Israel."