The Original “War on Terror:” Britain vs. the Zionist Underground

As with the other two articles I posted here at www.wtcdemolition.com/blog on the Balfour Declaration (in December 2007) and ‘Operation Malonchick’, the Zio-terrorist bombing of the King David Hotel on July 22, 1946 (in June 2008), this present article will also form a section of Part Three (“From the Balfour Declaration to Statehood – 32 Years of Terror and Deception in Palestine”) of my soon to be, book-length blog, “Wired for Terror: On the Trail of the Men Who Brought Down the Towers.” Until Part Three is all chronologically stitched together in its final form, I will now start publishing sections of it highly pertinent to 9/11 and the “war on terror” as I begin to bring together and sift, from a large assemblage of detailed information, the essential story of this seldom discussed section of history within that of the nearly ninety year old Zionist-Palestinian conflict.

As I have continually mentioned over the last year while researching this history, all the methods and characteristics of modern, so-called “Islamic terror” operations and organizations match exactly the same methods and characteristics which are seen in the well-documented history of Jewish Zionist terrorism in 1930s-1940s Palestine. For example, the organizational and operational structure of a “terrorist sleeper cell” or “terrorist operations team”—developed and used by the Zionist underground in Palestine—in today’s world, through media repetition, is associated in the minds of the public with the post-9/11 “War on Terror” and the organizational structure employed by the CIA-Mossad cutout organization “al-Qaeda” (The Database). Think of “al-Qaeda” as an updated version of the old Mossad-run, Abu Nidal terror group. After 9/11 we were told that this fake terror group, led by a CIA operative and friend of the Bush family, had “terrorist sleeper cells” operating across North America and around the world, hence the need for a “GLOBAL War on Terror™.” What we were NOT told, however, was that there actually were real “terrorist sleeper cells” out there, but they were Israeli “terrorist sleeper cells” (cf. Anthrax attacks, Mexican Parliament bomb plot, and five Israeli-driven moving vans with explosives picked up on and after 9/11. Using large trucks in an operation is an old timey, Irgun/LeHI signature). In this regard, when we examine the history of the British mandate period in Palestine, we come to learn that the original “terrorist sleeper cells” of the modern Middle East were not comprised of Islamic terrorists, but Jewish terrorists under the hypnotic spell of Zionism. It is this post-WWII development in Europe of Jewish terror cells which forms the central theme of this excerpt from the third part of “Wired for Terror.”

As far as referring to the members of the two major organizations in the “Hebrew underground”—Irgun Zvai Leumi (the Irgun, IZL) and Lohamei Herut Israel (LeHI, the ‘Stern Gang’)—as “terrorists,” this term was liberally applied to them not only by the British, the mainstream Jewish Agency, and the Zionist Left, but they proudly applied it to themselves as well. Geula Cohen, famous as the voice of LeHI’s underground, short-wave radio broadcasts, entitled her 1966 memoir— “Woman of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist, 1943-1948.”

ERNEST BEVIN AND POST-WAR PLANS FOR PALESTINE
In the summer of 1945, just after the Second World War had come to a close, well over 100,000 people,(1) many of whom were Jewish, sat in DP (Displaced Persons) refugee camps in former Nazi Germany and Eastern Europe. At the end of August, U.S. president Harry Truman wrote to British prime minister Clement Atlee and requested Britain to allow a single, massive immigration to Palestine of 100,000 Jews from the DP camps of Europe. In response to Truman’s massive immigration request, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Prime Minister Atlee responded with a proposal to form the joint Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry to discuss the Jewish refugee situation and find homes for them (but NOT in Palestine). Foreign Secretary Bevin’s vision was a bi-national Palestinian state with an Arab majority and a Jewish minority, but its form was that of a UN trusteeship awarded to Britain; basically a variance of the status quo continuance of the old League of Nations idea of the British mandate over Palestine.(2)

It was at this point in the history of the Zionist national project—the formation of the Anglo-American Committee—that the United States of America first became more involved in the situation as a British partner or advisor, eventually taking over as “Israel’s protector” after Britain had had enough of Zionist terrorism, trickery, and barbarism. The straw which certainly aided in breaking the back of the British camel was the great, ever increasing public outcry of British citizens to “Leave Palestine Now!” This demand of an outraged citizenry culminated following the July 29, 1947 hangings of two kidnapped British sergeants, carried out by the mastermind of the King David Hotel demolition job, the inventor of the Middle Eastern “truck bomb,” Irgun chief operations officer Amihai “Giddy” Paglin. This hideous hanging event, as one in a series of events beginning with the big Irgun prison break from the Crusader citadel at Acre on May 4, 1947, up to the resultant, and widespread, “British Kristallnacht,” will be discussed next week in Part II. The planning methodology and operational details of the Acre prison break are very instructive, as many similarities to the same patterns observed in modern false flag terror operations—from 1954’s “Operation Susannah” on through “9/11” to the Islamabad Marriott job just recently—are on full historical display in “Operation Acre,” which, at the time, was the Irgun’s most dramatic and difficult operation. It received a lot of press coverage and commentary in Europe and the U.S. The Acre prison break is a movie unto itself, and guess who, from the inside of the walls, was one of the masterminds of the Acre prison break – Israeli prime minister Tzipporah Livni’s father, Yeruham “Eitan” Livni.

Returning to the subject at hand, the aforementioned Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry’s report came out on April 30, 1946. It satisfied Truman by calling for immediate immigration rights to be given to 100,000 Jews in the DP camps of Europe so that they might legally travel to Palestine (NOT to America, as requested of Truman by American Zionist leaders playing a game of demographics). Beyond this one-time immigration of “the chosen 100,000,” the American side of the Anglo-American Committee passed the baton of responsibility for any future immigration decisions back to Foreign Secretary Bevin and HMG. This joint Committee of Inquiry also called for the repealing of the land sale restriction laws instituted by the 1939 White Paper. The committee also tried to satisfy Bevin and the British by hedging on any future decisions over independent statehood for anyone – Ashkenazim or Arab.

The committee in its final report stated: “Any attempt to establish either an independent Palestinian state or independent Palestinian states would result in civil strife such as might threaten the peace of the world.”(3) It thus recommended Palestine continue under the British mandate until the UN executed a Trusteeship agreement. Unfortunately, no one listened to the words of the Oxford historian Albert Hourani, who as a young man, represented the Arab Agency before this 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and presciently, frankly stated in his presentation before it: “No room can be made in Palestine for a second nation except by dislodging or exterminating the first.”(4)

Unhappy with Truman’s verbal championing of the 100,000 person immigration plan, which was completely unsupported in any material aspect by the U.S., and unhappy with the lifting of land sales restrictions, instituted in the 1939 White Paper to protect the Palestinian populace from losing their lands, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin suggested the formation of a cabinet-level committee to “discuss” the recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee’s report. Named after its two chairmen, this new working group was the Morrison-Grady Committee, fiercely hated and vilified by the Zionist underground in Palestine. In July of 1946 this committee put forth a plan which negated all the major suggestions of the Anglo-American Committee’s report of April 30. The Morrison-Grady plan proposed British trusteeship for an undefined period of time over a Palestine divided into two “autonomous provinces,” yet also held a long-term vision of possible partition of Palestine into two independent states as well (cf. the U.S. in Iraq). The committee also put a condition on Truman’s unsupported plans for immediate immigration of the 100,000 – it would only happen if both sides of this conflict agreed to the entire Morrison-Grady plan, an outcome which, of course, conjures up images of flying pigs in sunglasses and such.(5)

Following a hearty rejection by both sides of the conflict in Palestine and a wave of terrorist operations launched by the Zionist underground, including the bombing of the King David Hotel following the issuance of the Morrison-Grady Committee’s report, it was decided by Foreign Secretary Bevin and the British cabinet to try and sell the Arabs and Zionists on the committee’s idea of “Provincial Autonomy.” To accomplish this, Bevin called for the leaderships of both parties to meet at a conference in London in early September 1946. Both the leadership of the Jewish Agency and the leadership of the Palestinian Arabs refused the invitation, so the British delegation ended up holding discussions with various representatives of the Arab states who showed up at the “peace conference.” They all hated Morrison-Grady too.(6)

In August there were British press reports of dangerous, uninvited guests who were also making plans to attend Bevin’s September conference in London where he would attempt to sell the idea of two autonomous Palestinian provinces under indefinite British trusteeship. The British papers were reporting that Scotland Yard, in late August, alerted the Chief of the French Sûreté that fourteen Jewish terrorists were in Paris preparing to make their way to London and assassinate Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and other members of the British delegation to the peace conference. This “terrorist alert” in 1946 Paris and London brings us to the history of the modern “terrorist sleeper cell,” a concept now familiar to all “post-9/11” Westerners.

From the autumn of 1945 until the declaration of the state of Israel by David Ben Gurion in May of 1948, all the characteristics and different methods of “modern terrorism” were on display in Palestine. All the truck bombs, taxi bombs, car bombs, electronically triggered time bombs, suitcase bombs, milk can bombs, oil drum bombs, letter bombs, trap bombs, double grenade booby traps, road mines, assassination squads, kidnapping/hostage-taking squads, sabotage, demolition, weapons smuggling, high level extortions, and accompanying propaganda which have been seen in the modern world of “terrorism” since that time, were all then on display in Palestine. These patterns of terrorist attack, their operational signatures and methods, however, were not those belonging to terror operations devised, organized, and launched by “fanatical, Arab Muslim jihadis,” but ones launched by fanatical, Polish and Russian Jewish jihadis who had come to Palestine to wage “Zionist jihad” against the occupying British and the indigenous Arab. One of the organizational methods used and developed by these Zionist jihadis was the international formation of “terrorist sleeper cells” for both terror operations and propaganda purposes, and it is this organizational concept and historical operational usage by the Zionist underground of the international terrorist sleeper cell, nesting in a community and aided by a network of sympathizers and helpers (sayanim), that we shall look at here.

IRGUN ZVAI LEUMI IN THE AMERICAN DIASPORA
The task of “working the Diaspora” for financial and propaganda support began to be undertaken by the Irgun Zvai Leumi just before the outbreak of WWII, when in June of 1939, Ben-Eliezer was sent to the U.S. to organize an Irgun support network. By the time he returned to Palestine four years later, in 1943, he had helped organize the following four Irgun-allied groups in the U.S.:

1) The American Friends of Jewish Palestine (with Rabbi Louis Newman).
2) The Committee for a Jewish Army (with Pierre von Passen).
3) The Committee for National Liberation (with Peter Bergson & Samuel Merlin).
4) The Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe (with Senator Gillette & Hollywood writer Ben Hecht, who had an Irgun-owned immigration ship named after him).

SAYANIM & TERRORIST SLEEPER CELLS IN EUROPE
After the war, in September of 1945, Menachem Begin and the high command of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (I.Z.L., or ‘Etzel’) in British Palestine decided to begin sending emissaries of terror to Europe for the accomplishment of five aims:

1) Bring Jewish refugees to Palestine.
2) Recruit fighters.
3) Acquire weapons.
4) Launch terror operations against Britain and British interests.
5) Gather allies and sayanim among European Zionist organizations and coordinate their activities.

Appointed as the high commander in charge of the Irgun’s “diaspora operations,” Ely Tavin, using the name “Pesach,” was the first to be sent off to Europe. In October of 1945 he arrived in Italy to set up shop. Gathering together the talents, commitments, and contacts of a sympathetic, post-war Jewish community of former DP camp refugees, Tavin began the establishment of an Irgun terror cell network radiating outward from Rome to the rest of Italy. Firearms training was given to all cell members, and at Triscasa and Ladispoli, special forces and commando programs were held. From these Irgun training programs in Italy, a combat organization called Balahav was formed. The Jews in Italy who would act as Irgun “helpers” or sayanim in their operations were mainly former detainees from Eastern European countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia, or Yugoslavia, and had come out of the DP camps there.

In February 1946, several months after Tavin arrived in Rome, Irgun operative Dr. Shmuel Ariel, known as “Elhanan,” arrived in Paris to set up operational sleeper cells in France. He was able to secure a well-paid position and was able to make excellent contacts in high places because of his friendship with Madame Claire Vayada, a former French Resistance operative. Dr. Ariel was also able to extort a deal out of the French Interior Ministry by promising no Irgun terror operations would be carried out on French soil in exchange for transit permits allowing 30,000 Jewish refugees to leave on ships from southern France for Palestine. The courses of these ships, of course, were fraudulently registered as being set for voyages to South America. The Irgun high command back in Palestine got word of Dr. Ariel’s lavish and high profile lifestyle, however, and felt that it was best that he be replaced in France by Israel Epstein, former managing editor of Menachem Begin’s newspaper Herut, and an operative who was able to keep a much lower profile.

Then, in early October 1946, Samuel Katz, newly appointed to Irgun’s high command, was sent to Paris with authorization for Tavin to begin operations against the British in Italy. This written authorization to commence attacks was found by Tavin in a pair of new shoes that Katz gave him at their meeting in Paris. Katz also turned over an address book with coded operation instructions written inside. Ely Tavin returned to Italy and immediately began operational planning for an Irgun attack on the British embassy and consulate buildings in Rome.

October 31, 1946: The British Embassy Operation
Ely Tavin’s British embassy operation in Rome was set for Thursday, October 31, 1946, on the one year anniversary of the terror, or “political pressure,” campaign launched by the Tenuat Hameri (the United Resistance) on Halloween night of 1945 when the Haganah, the Palmach, the Irgun, and the LeHI joined together for a nearly simultaneous quartet of night time terror attacks in Palestine. Tavin’s attack on the British embassy in Rome, however, was an operation basically involving graffiti and two suitcase bombs, nothing as dramatic as the operations pulled off on Halloween in 1945. It should be noted for possible future reference that, through these two operations, Zio-terrorists established a tradition of launching operations on Halloween night.

When evening fell over Rome on October 31, 1946 two Zionist sleeper cells awoke and set off for the British embassy. One team’s assignment, perhaps to thank the British for saving “their people” from the Nazis, was to paint a large red swastika (a solar symbol of good fortune in India) on the front of the British Consulate building and the other team was to slip just inside the entrance to the British Embassy building two suitcases in which were placed two bombs with set timers. The painters and bombers performed their assignments, withdrew from the area, and within minutes the two explosions shook the vicinity. A single passer-by was injured seriously and the embassy’s first two floors suffered serious damage from the twin blasts. Through an American journalist, the Irgun cell in Rome sent a communiqué to the Italian police and Premier DeGasperi claiming responsibility for the attack and warning that their terror campaign would soon be brought to the British homeland.

The following day, on November 1, 1946, the Italian police began making arrests among the Jewish DP community in Rome. Three arrests were made, two were detained for questioning, and an all points bulletin was put out on a third man. On November 24, four more Jews were arrested in Genoa, among them Israel Epstein, and at the beginning of December, Ely Tavin was also arrested. Despite these arrests in Italy, Irgun terror cells soon sprouted up in Eastern Europe, Austria, and Germany. After Eitan Livni was freed from Acre Prison during the big breakout on May 4, 1947, he joined Ely Tavin and Samuel Katz as a major Irgun terror cell organizer in Europe.

“IRGUN THREATENS LONDON”
Just after the Rome bombing on Halloween night, the headlines in Britain, chalked up at newsstands along Regent Street, read “IRGUN THREATENS LONDON.” The press began reporting that Jewish terrorist cells were plotting to blow up public buildings (cf. 9/11/01) and that Irgun assassins were operating in London with a “Death List” containing the names of George Hall, former Colonial Secretary; Field Marshal Bernard “Monty” Montgomery, distinguished hero of World War II; and Sir John Shaw, former Chief Secretary of the mandate administration, who the Irgun had tried to kill only several months prior during the King David Hotel bombing. The British papers also warned the public that Irgun terrorists, during many of their operations (cf. arms raids at RAF bases, the Acre prison break, etc.), often disguised themselves as British Army officers, putting on stolen uniforms and fake British accents. British security was stepped up at seaports and airports, troops were on standby, and cabinet ministers were assigned special bodyguards.

Later on, real Irgun assassins did come to London, but in November of 1946, Ely Tavin’s threatening communiqué to the Italian police, in which he took credit, on behalf of the Irgun, for the Nazi graffiti and double suitcase bomb attack in Rome, and warned of a British terror campaign to follow, was enough to merely create the idea, by deception, in the mind of the British press that the Zionist, Irgun terrorist organization out of Palestine was possibly in charge of a national underground network of terrorist sleeper cells spread across Britain. “By way of deception, thou shalt do war.”

Stay tuned next week for “Part 2 – Palestine - Summer of ’47: From the Acre Prison Break to the ‘British Kristallnacht’.”

Unless otherwise noted, much of the information in this article is from: J. Bowyer Bell, Terror Out of Zion: Irgun Zvai Leumi, LEHI, and the Palestine Underground, 1929-1949, New York: 1977, p. 178-83.

(1) Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents, 4th Edition, Boston-New York: 2001, p. 185.

(2) Ibid. p. 184.

(3) Ibid. p. 186.

(4) Michael Cohen, Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948, Princeton: 1982, p. 105.

(5) Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents, 4th Edition, Boston-New York: 2001, p. 187.

(6) Ibid. p. 188.