From Where The Right Went Wrong, by Patrick J. Buchanan p.114-115
"On July 22, 1946, after a phoned warning to which no one paid heed, Irgun agents ignited seven milk cans containing 350 kils of TNT inside the headquarters of the British Mandate for Palestine, the King David Hotel. Ninety-one Brits, Arabs, and Jews were killed and forty-six injured int he explosion.
In April 1948, a month before Israel declared independence, the Irgun and Stern Gang attacked the village of Deir Yassin on the road to Jerusalem. The Arabs in Deir Yassin were peacful and lived on friendly terms wiht their Jewish neighbors. What occured there was a mssacre. Children were merdered. Pregnant women had theri bellies slit open. Bodies were dumped into the village well...
Because of the Irgun massacre at Deir Yassin, six hundred thousand Arabs fled the Palestinian territories the UN had set aside for a Jewish state, ensuring a Jewish majority in the new nation. "Though terror alone did not create the State of Israel," writes Michael Ignatieff of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, "terror was instrumental and terror worked."...
..."With a state of their own, Israelis would deal with Arab terrorism far more ruthlessly than the British had dealt with theirs. In October of 1953, after Arab infiltrators murdered a young Israeli woman, Susan Kanias, and her two small children, Israel sent a commando unit into the village of Kibya. The commandos blew up the buildings in which terrified Palestinian womena dn children were hiding, killing sixty-nine.
The leader of that commando unit? Ariel Shron, a future prime minister. The leader of the Stern Gang? Yitzhak Shamir, a future prime minister. The leader of the Irgun? Menachem Begin, a future prime minister. In both storied uprisings of the twentieth century, the Irish and Israeli wars of independence, terrorism was used, and those who used it are today national hereos in the pantheons of their people."
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