Bethnai
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There were only two “terrorist” organizations at that time, one was called Irgun and one was called Lehi (that is the Stern Group). Ben-Gurion was not involved in either of those. He was a member of the Haganah, and it was the Haganah under Ben-Gurion’s direction that went after the perpetrators of Irgun that were bombing the British and turned them in to the British. This is called the Hunting Season. Now, Stern did not like the “Zionists” willingness to work with the British. That would be the reason for the two militia groups that were mentioned. Stern, in his infinite wisdom, thought that he could help defeat Britain by aiding Hitler and, in return, relocate the Jews. So, no, you may not say that Stern was anti-Semetic. There was no master plan to remove the Arabs living there. No transfer of population. There was no plan for ethnic cleansing and you have not one shred of evidence to support that claim. Further, there was no forcing the Palestinians to leave at gun point. They had been told to leave by Arab leaders, including and predominantly spread by, the “Grand Mufti” to leave their homes. This has been acknowledged. The census that was taken in 1945, and the number of those that stayed, and the census taken afterwards refutes the 750,000 claim. In fact, Ben-Gurion sent out Meir to ask them to stay and not to be afraid. You are sadly mistaken if you think that Hitler just sat around and all of a sudden came up with the ideas all by himself. Now, he is very, very careful when he wrote Mein Kampf to make it sound as if he was never influenced by anyone else and dreamed this up on his own. However, it was prevalent at the time. Now, what I will give you is that Begin was a member of Irgun. Shamir was a member of Lehi.
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