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Haganah

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Haganah

(1920–48) Zionist military organization. It was organized to combat the attacks of Palestinian Arabs on Jewish settlements, and it effectively defended them despite being outlawed by the British authorities and being poorly armed. Through World War II (1939–45) its activities were moderate by contrast with more extreme Zionist militias, but it turned to terrorism after the war when the British refused to permit unlimited Jewish immigration to Palestine. In 1947 it clashed openly with British forces and with the forces of the Palestinian Arabs and their allies. When Israel became a state in 1948, Haganah became the core of its national army. See also Irgun Zvai Leumi.



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By the end of World War II things got even worse: "The Haganah carried out anti-British military operations--liberation of interned immigrants from the Atlit camp; the bombing of the country's railroad network; sabotage raids on radar installations and bases of the British police mobile force; sabotage of British vessels C* and the destruction of all road and railroad bridges on the borders.
It begins in 1948 and the Haganah militia's conquest of Nazareth, home of a young man named Fuad.
In Palestine, Mueller joined the secret Jewish defense army Haganah and the "German Platoon" which consisted of 40 German-speaking Jews with Aryan looks who would infiltrate and operate behind German lines should the Germans ever threaten to take Palestine.
 
 
 
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