Oy! Those Crafty Jews!

[georgephillip]

He was right, thanks for making my point. He knew the Irgun faction was violent idealogues. He knew that statehood would put them in charge. 70 years passage of time has proved him right in his assessment.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky founded the Revisionist Zionist movement which urged territorial maximalism with the establishment of a Jewish majority on both sides of the Jordan River.

Terrorism played an crucial role in this movement:

Revisionist Zionism - Wikipedia

"Revisionist Zionism had its own paramilitary group, led by Jabotinsky until his death in 1940, called the Irgun, which has been characterized by some as a terrorist organization.

"Both the Irgun and the Stern Gang, which emerged from it, were responsible for several attacks against the British to try to expel them from Palestine.

"After the White Paper of 1939 severely limited Jewish immigration to Palestine, just as the Nazis were gaining power, the Irgun and Lehi initiated campaigns against the British."