Fascinating history...grabbed from fb post below:
The Zionist Underground and the End of British Rule in Palestine.📷 - Martin Michael
I went down a historical rabbit hole researching this and honestly, some of it genuinely took a minute to process.
Before Israel was created in 1948, Britain governed Palestine under what was known as the British Mandate, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I.
In the final years of British rule, several Zionist underground organisations launched an armed insurgency aimed at forcing Britain out of Palestine and paving the way for the creation of a Jewish state.
The main organisations involved were:
Irgun
A nationalist paramilitary group responsible for bombings, assassinations and attacks on British military and administrative targets.
Lehi (The Stern Gang)
A smaller but even more radical organisation that carried out assassinations and attacks against British officials and infrastructure.
Haganah
The largest Jewish paramilitary organisation in Palestine. Although it often operated differently from Irgun and Lehi, it did at times cooperate in coordinated operations against British targets.
At the time, British authorities officially referred to some of these groups as terrorist organisations, while supporters viewed them as anti-colonial fighters resisting British rule.
Historians generally refer to this period as the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine (1944–1948).
Some of the major events included:
1944 — Assassination of Lord Moyne
Walter Guinness, Britain’s Minister of State in the Middle East, was assassinated in Cairo by members of Lehi.
He was the highest-ranking British official killed during the insurgency.
1945 — Escalation of attacks
Militant groups intensified attacks on:
• railways
• bridges
• police stations
• government buildings
• immigration control infrastructure
Several groups temporarily worked together in a coordinated campaign known as the Jewish Resistance Movement.
1946 — Night of the Bridges
A coordinated sabotage operation destroyed bridges linking Palestine with neighbouring territories, severely disrupting British transport and military infrastructure.
1946 — King David Hotel Bombing
Irgun militants planted explosives inside the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed the British administrative headquarters.
The explosion killed 91 people:
28 British
41 Arabs
17 Jews
It remains one of the deadliest attacks carried out against British rule during the Mandate period.
1947 — Acre Prison Break
Irgun fighters attacked Acre prison and freed dozens of imprisoned militants.
1947 — Execution of British Sergeants
Two British soldiers, Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice, were kidnapped and later hanged by Irgun after Britain executed imprisoned militants.
The killings caused outrage across Britain.
By 1947–48 the situation had become increasingly unmanageable for Britain.
Eventually Britain announced it would end the Mandate and hand the issue over to the United Nations.
On 14 May 1948, the state of Israel was declared.
What happened next is where the story becomes even more significant.
Many members of these underground organisations later moved directly into mainstream Israeli politics and state leadership.
Menachem Begin, leader of Irgun during the insurgency, later became Prime Minister of Israel.
Yitzhak Shamir, a senior member of Lehi, also went on to become Prime Minister.
Meanwhile Haganah became the foundation of the Israeli military itself.
All of this took place in the shadow of World War II and its aftermath, at a time when Britain had been financially and militarily devastated by war.
By 1944 British ministers were being assassinated.
By 1946 British headquarters were being bombed.
By 1947 British soldiers were being kidnapped and executed.
Yet this history is rarely discussed in Britain today.
And it raises a question that still follows conflicts across the world now:
Who gets labelled a terrorist — and who later gets remembered as a freedom fighter or statesman?
Because history often seems to answer that question differently depending on who eventually wins power.
British journalist and television presenter, Ranvir Singh opens up the real truth while discussing the Mandelson scandal:
“I’m afraid it taps into that very deep feeling, that the people we vote for are not the people who are running the country. The people we vote for are the front face, a shop window, but there are these unknown, unelected, highly paid, very influential people who are more powerful than the prime minister. We see the tip of the iceberg. We think we’ve got a democracy that’s open and fair. We don’t.”
Well said. 🎯
Ireland has lit the match & the fire is spreading across the West🔥
All of us across can relate to this speech, all Western nations are experiencing the same managed decline & our people are all suffering under the same evil Globalists.
These Globalist parasitic vampires have not only drained our wealth but they are draining the life out of our people too.
We either fight for our rights, freedoms & civil liberties or we submit & accept our fate. Those are the only 2 options.
Inspiring speech, does anyone know who this brave Irish woman is? 🤍
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle... This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
— William Shakespeare, Richard II (Act 2, Scene 1)
Classical literature is not just harder content. It is liberation.
It rips students out of the tiny prison of their own age, their own trends, their own slogans, their own shallow assumptions about what matters. It reminds them the world did not begin with them, and that their feelings are not the measure of truth.
Shakespeare doesn’t teach “skills.” He reveals ambition, lust, betrayal, guilt, and the cost of sin. Homer teaches courage and honor. Augustine exposes the restless heart. Dante shows that loves can be ordered rightly or twisted into ruin. These books give students a map of the soul.
Our greatest enemy is a culture training kids to be bored by silence and incapable of deep thought.
A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me is that the Conservative and the Progressive are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is a put-up job, and that the way they perpetually play into each other's hands is not an everlasting coincidence.
It’s surely obvious to everyone now that a Uniparty governs Britain, providing both government & ‘opposition’. The ‘blue’ side of the Uniparty had been in office too long so to keep the semblance of ‘democracy’ it was necessary for the nominally ‘red’ side to take over last year. In the same way that only Nixon could go to China only ‘Labour’ could implement the ‘next stage’ of the agenda: ie impose a fresh wave of austerity, cut benefits and transform the welfare state into a warfare state.
Lots of resources were spent on trying to ensure that @georgegalloway - the one MP who would have spoken out in Parliament against more war, lost in Rochdale. When he won it in a by-election it even triggered the PM making an announcement outside Downing Street saying that the victory was ‘beyond alarming’. It’s obvious why. Voices against war are not welcome in Parliament. It’s ‘democracy’ .
What was just about the first major thing @UKLabour did when coming back into power after 14 years? Deprive pensioners of their Winter Fuel Allowance. That was their priority and that says it all. They will never recover from that decision and nor do they deserve to.
What a winter Starmer & Reeves picked to take the Winter Fuel Allowance away from more than 10m pensioners. We must never forget or forgive what they did. And we must make sure that all the MPs who voted to take the WFA away lose their seats in the next general election.
We need something legal in place to be able to call for a new election if a party goes back on all its mandate promised. How is ANY political party allowed to lie their way into parliament? It would make mandates & promises more legally binding. So we know what we are voting for & at least can do something if that’s the case. Starmer listen to your people, fight for Britain not the WEF
Well done to Rosie Duffield for this. Hopefully other Labour MPs will follow suit and resign the whip. Starmer’s removal of the Winter Fuel Allowance from 10m pensioners was unforgivable.