Has no-one in the MSM ever heard of the Stern Gang and Irgun?
Posted by SueC on October 11, 2023, 7:15 pm
I'm becoming weary of MSM types exhorting us all to 'stand with Israel', get our eyeballs tattooed with the Israeli flag and recognise this as a 'civilisational moment'. And I wonder why none of them (mainly Oxbridge and Russell Group university graduates) ever seem to have heard of these two Jewish Zionist terrorist groups, the Stern Gang and Irgun who carried out an exceptionally violent terrorist campaign in Mandate Palestine both before and after Israel's declaration of independence.
British soldiers were the ostensible target but Irgun members didn't spend a lot of time distinguishing between military and civilian targets, killing and maiming Jews and non-Jews alike. Its piece de resistance, the bombing of the St David's Hotel in Jerusalem, still rates as one of the world's worst terrorist attacks in terms of loss of life.
As far as I know, neither of these groups ever considered a campaign of non-violence - you know, the sort of actions which are constantly urged upon the Palestinians as the only legitimate means of protesting grievance. On the contrary, the Jewish groups were violent from the get-go with a 'by all means necessary' mantra. So savage did their attacks become, they led to anti-Jewish riots in Britain. Israel has never repudiated its violent birth - many of those who served in the Irgun rose to high office in the post-independent country.
Violently removing the British from Palestine went hand-in-hand with violently removing Palestinians from their homes. Several thousand who returned to Palestine and tried to reclaim their properties after fleeing were killed.
So, you know, I wonder why all of this has fallen down the memory hole - why, for our MSM, politicians, talking heads, the commentariat etc was it ethical, forgivable and forgettable for Israel's to use exceptionally violent tactics in establishing its state but monstrous for the Palestinians to do the same?
Re: Has no-one in the MSM ever heard of the Stern Gang and Irgun?
We live in the... Age of Amnesia, because history has, apparently, ended. The past is controlled, like the present, and leader and their media are very selective about what parts of the past we are allowed to visit.
That Israel was built on a campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing on a huge scale, systematic massacres of Palestinian villagers, creating panic and forcing them to run for their lives, a land taken by the sword and kept by the sword... well, all that's just too beastly for the ruling class form the Thames Valley to swallow.
It's wiful ignorance, of course. They don't want to know, because they've learnt that any knowledge not sanctioned by the state, can be positively dangrous for one's career prospects, look what happened to that Assange fellow!