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At the time only a number of officers and clerks were there. There was not even a garrison unit. For some time the headquarters staff, armed only with small arms, constituted the only obstacle preventing the unloading of the ship.

The only unit on the spot consisted of Palmach headquarters staff, who were located in the Ritz Hotel facing the Ahalena. While the handful of staff officers and clerks drew weapons and hand grenades, reinforcements from the Palmach Yiftach and Negev brigades, and a company from Carmeli Brigade, were rushing into the city.

As captain Fein was ready to raise a white flag, for he knew that otherwise they would lose everything ship, cargo, and crew. Begin was opposed to this, but Fein ordered his radio operator to stop him from interfering. The white flag fluttered overhead. Although Begin continued to demand that it be taken down, Fein's first concern now was for the wounded, and he was not interested in the IZL leader's orders. Begin was pinned down to the deck, the radio operator's knee firmly in the small of his back. (Там же, стр 223)

Whenever Begin travels abroad and speaks to the press, the letter columns of the newspapers blossom with indignation. "The work of the Irgun fighters is a blot on world Jewry of which righteous thinking members should justly be ashamed."

Rabin confided off-camera to liana Tsur, the director of a 1994 television documentary on the Altalena affair, that it was one of the most difficult moments of his life. But he stood by the prime minister's decision. "Woe unto the State of Israel," he said, "if Ben-Gurion had not done what he did. There is only one army, and that is the Israel Defense Forces."

"יצחק רבין זרק רימון מחלון המלון"

"Jabotinsky was an unabashed admirer of the Italian Fascist movement"

"During the trial Amir relied heavily on a book by Uri Milstein"

"the views and the political and social inclinations of the Revisionists are known and that they are absolutely in accordance with the fascist doctrine. Therefore, as our students they will bring the Italian and fascist culture to Palestine"

"Mussolini himself referred to Jabotinsky as the Jewish fascist".

"The Rector orders an immediate halt to a series of guest lectures at the university scheduled to be given by Dr. Uri Milstein"