Secret terrorist organizations - "Irgun" and "Lexi"

No matter how much the attack by Hamas in October 2023 has tarnished the reputation of the Israeli secret services, it is impossible not to mention the military censorship, various methods of intimidation, arrests, destruction of sources, and other ruthless rules that the special forces of the Jewish state adhere to, which the Zionists have been using regularly. Considering that such services, without recognizing any principles of humanity, use all barbarity and baseness as weapons for their own benefit, in a word, they can also be called secret terrorist organizations.

One such terrorist organization is the Irgun Zwei Leumi. This secret organization was founded in 1931 in occupied Palestine. The terrorist group, led by Aaron Takomi, was formed with the participation of members of the Haganah and other secret terrorist organizations in the Middle East.

In 1937, the members of the organization could not agree on the issue of suppressing the Arab liberation movement that had begun so vigorously the year before, and the organization split in two. Almost half of the Irgun fighters returned to the Haganah, which was subordinate to the Jewish Agency. The rest, ideologically connected with the Zionist revisionists, went over to the side of Vladimir Jabotinsky.

For your information, the first prime minister of the occupying state of Israel, described by Ben Gurion as "Vladimir Hitler," that is, Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, is the founder of the "Revisionist Zionism" movement. He believed that the Zionists should occupy not only the west of the Jordan River, but also its east.

The Irgun, led by Jabotinsky, rejects the moderate principles of the Jewish Agency and the Haganah and launches extremely violent and bloody attacks against the Arabs. Their bloodthirstiness of this level even causes discontent even with the Israeli government. Many members of the Irgun are arrested.

Irgun terrorists also actively engaged in illegal immigration and began bringing people who claimed to be Jews to Israel.

Unexpectedly, in 1939, the Irgun turned its attention to the British occupation. British forces responded with a wave of arrests, and at the outbreak of World War II, one of the leaders of the terrorist organization, Daniel Raziel, was captured. Therefore, the terrorist organization proposed a short-term ceasefire and truce. In 1940, the Irgun formed a new secret group, Lehi, led by Anatol Stern. In May of the following year, Raziel was killed in a military operation against the regime of Rashid Ali al-Jilani in Habbaniya, Iraq, and leadership passed first to Dan Meridor, and in December 1943 to Menachem Begin.

In 1944, the Irgun declared war on the British government. At that time, they raided the Provisional Government offices, blew up police offices and local government headquarters, and seized weapons and grenades.

The British, in response, are intensifying the imprisonment of these terrorists, whom they call a handful of street thugs, and the deportation of the most serious to Ethiopia.

When the British government's anti-Zionist policies became apparent, the Haganah, Irgun, and Lexi terrorist forces joined forces and launched a wave of sabotage: they blew up bridges, water, and oil pipelines, poisoned wells, and deliberately dumped dead pigs in areas where Muslims drank water.

On July 22, 1946, members of the Irgun blew up a floor of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed the British government's representative office and the headquarters of British military forces in Palestine.

Such acts of subversion help us understand that today's Israeli occupation state was also founded directly as a result of acts of terror.

Let's focus on the memoirs of David Shomron, who was born on December 30, 1924, into a Jewish refugee family in Istanbul, and later traveled to Palestine and joined the secret terrorist organizations there.

Later, as a Mossad agent, Shamron, who was actively involved in anti-Arab activities, was hiding in the darkness of September 22, 1944, near the Catholic Church on St. George Street in Jerusalem. The church building was used as a dormitory by British officers. Shamron was waiting for one of the officers, Tom Wilkin, to emerge from the building.

Wilkin was the head of the criminal division of the British government that governed Palestine. Shamron had already decided that killing Wilkin, who disliked radical Jews, was Plan A.

Shomron and his partner, Yakov Banai, were top militants of the Lexi organization, and both participated in bloody operations.

Wilkin knew he was also a target for the "Lexi." The militants had previously tried to kill Wilkin and his boss, Jeffrey Morton.

However, Wilkin was a cool-headed and calculating man. He had lived in Palestine for 13 years and had mastered Arabic and Hebrew. British spies provided him with accurate information, thanks to which many secret operations of Zionist terrorists against the British failed.

That's why Shomron wanted to kill him. The members of the organization "Lexi" (Lohamei Herut Israel Freedom Fighters), of which he was a member, were simply called "Stern's Headmen" by the British. Avraham Stern is an ultranationalist Zionist and the founder of "Lexi". Stern and a group of his followers carried out pre-planned political assassinations and bombings.

At the same time, the British invaders were also fighting for the land that the Zionists considered theirs. That is why the Zionist terrorists swore on the Torah to destroy Wilkin and anyone like him who tried to even slightly ease the Jewish-Arab conflict.

The assassins, who learned that Wilkin lived in a room next door to the church, began what they considered a sacred mission. Shomron and Banai had revolvers and grenades in their pockets, and the building was surrounded by Irgun and Lexi militants dressed in British trousers, ties, and hats.

Wilkin left the room next to the church and walked towards the Criminal Investigation Department. Usually, it was there that arrested militants were interrogated. As always, he looked around carefully, trying not to miss anything suspicious. As he walked, one hand clutching the pistol in his pocket, a young man sitting near the grocery store at the intersection of St. George and Mea Shearim streets stood up and his hat fell to the floor. This was certainly no coincidence, it was a special signal, and the two militants, Shamron and his partner, began to follow Wilkin.

"Banai begged the fireplace, 'I'll shoot,'" Shomron later recalled in his memoirs. "But when I saw Wilkin, I couldn't stop myself. And I fired the first shot myself."

They fired a total of 14 shots at the British officer. Then they fled the scene of the crime in a waiting taxi.

In fact, the idea that the Jews could only be returned to the "promised" lands by force was invented by Zionist terrorist organizations.

They promoted radical ideas of exterminating Arabs and dividing the territories for Jews.

In particular, one of the bloodiest and most brutal crimes committed by terrorist organizations such as the Irgun and Lehi in history was the massacre of the Arab village of Deir Yassin in 1948. More than a hundred civilians were killed in this massacre, in which the Haganah militants, led by Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of the state of Israel, also participated.

Saida Darieva, researcher