User:Krynnish Conspiracy/Irgun

I am currently translating the Hebrew version of Irgun to English. Here I will put a draft when I have a chance to actually do anything. Krynnish Conspiracy 21:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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- Irgun (ארגון), shorthand for Irgun Tsvai Leumi (ארגון צבאי לאומי, also spelled Irgun Zvai Leumi), Hebrew for "National Military Organization", was a clandestine militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine from 1931 to 1948. In Israel, this group is commonly referred to as Etzel (אצ"ל), an acronym of the Hebrew initials. In the time in which the Irgun operated, often people referred to the Irgun as 'הגנה ב or ההגנה הלאומית. Its political association with Revisionist Zionism rendered it a predecessor movement to Israel's right-wing Herut party.

Even at its beginning the organization was not warmly welcome by the Haganah. The General Federation of Laborers even prevented employment from those who chose to align themselves with this organization. Later the two factions drifted even further, and permanent hostility ensued. During the 1930s the Irgun's main actions included defending settlements, and also armed operations against Arabs in Israel which violated the Jewish Settlements' common policy of not retaliating to Arab hostility, and thus differed from the Haganah who took a defensive stand. When the White Paper of 1939 was published, the Irgun decided to also operate additionally against the British