where did terrorism come from?

Zionist terrorism prior to the founding of Israel:

# The first airplane hijacked was committed by Israel in 1954 when a civilian Syrian airliner was hijacked immediately after taking off.(Walid Khalidi, Palestine Reborn)

# The first car bomb was an invention of the Zionists(ENC,90-91).

# Grenades in cafes, first used against Palestinians in Jerusalem on 17 March, 1937(Enc,90-91).

# Delayed-action, electrically timed mines in crowded market-places: first against Palestinians in Haifa, 6 July, 1938.(Enc,90-91)

# Blowing up a ship with its civilian passengers still on board: first in Haifa, 25 November, 1940. The Zionists did not hesitate to blow up their own people to protest the British policy of strict Jewish immigration to Palestine. The ship ‘Patria’ had 1,700 Jewish immigrants, 253 lives lost. The ship Struma, carrying 760 Jewish immigrants sank in the Black Sea as a result of an explosion on February 24, 1942. Seven hundred and sixty (760) Jewish lives were lost. In later years, it was admitted that the Haganah general staff had the ship blown up in order to lay the charge at the door of the Mandate Government (Bitter Harvest, Sami Hadawi, p. 55).

# Assassination of government official outside Palestine: first used against the British in Cairo, 6 November, 1944 when Lord Moyne, Secretary of State, was assassinated by the Stern Gang. Yitzhak Shamir, a member of the Irgun and later leader of the Stern Gang was behind the plan(Enc. and Bitter Harvest).

# Taking of hostages to put pressure on a government: first used against the British in Tel Aviv, 18 June, 1946(Encyclopedia,p.67).

# Blowing up government offices with their civilian employees and visitors: first used against the British in Jerusalem, 22 July, 1946. The toll was 91 Britons, and 46 injured in King David Hotel. Begin, who masterminded and carried out the attack admitted that the massacre was coordinated with and carried out under the instruction of the Haganah(Enc.pp.267-8).

# Booby-trapped suitcase: first used against the British Embassy in Rome, 13 October, 1946.

# Booby-trapped car parked alongside buildings: first used against the British in Sarafand (east of Jaffa) on 5 December, 1946.

# Flogging of hostages: first used against the British in Tel Aviv, Natanya and Rishon, 29 December, 1946.

# Letter-bombs sent to politicians outside Palestine: first used against Britain when twenty letter-bombs were sent from Italy to London between 4 and 6 June, 1947(Enc.Palestine.68-69).

# Murder of hostages as a reprisal for government actions: first used against the British in Natanya area on 29/30 July, 1947 and making a booby trap out of their bodies. The note left with the bodies read: “This is the sentence of the Irgun’s High Command”(New York Times, August, 1947, I:8 - quoted in Sami Hadawi’s Bitter Harvest, p.61).

# Postal Parcel-bomb sent outside Palestine: first used against the British in London, 3 September, 1947.

# Assassination of UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte and his French aide on September 17, 1948. The Stern Gang, under Shamir leadership, planned and executed the assassination because he made suggestions to vary the partition plan of Palestine. “If the world listens to Bernadotte and pressures our weakling government into making concessions, we will have lost our State.” Sheib said. “We can’t let this happen. We must show the world that it is just as futile for the UN to interfere in our affairs as it was for the British”(Enc. of Palestine.,p.160).

Are you honestly trying to claim that Israel "invented" terrorism?

What a bunch of hogwash. sheesh

Terrorism has been going on for ages; it's as old as recorded history.

This argument is a bunch of anti-semitic racist bullshit.

not at all...however they are the inventers of mordern terrorism as we know it today..like i said and warlord pointed out there have been what people call "terrorist" actions before..........however the group black hand had a goal(The main objective of the Black Hand was the creation, by means of violence, of a Greater Serbia. Its stated aim was: "To realize the national ideal, the unification of all Serbs. This organisation prefers terrorist action to cultural activities; it will therefore remain secret.")

..which it didn't make good on(unless of course you believe that they did in fact have a greater serbia after the war?).......the zionists however had a goal and made it happen with all the forms of terrorism that is now in play today

i'm sure cavemen used to terrorize other cave men also..however a mass terror undertaking like the zionists with a stated goal and completion of said goal has only happened one time.

unless of course the boston tea party was a terrorist act....?

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jeez you people are pathetic.

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Originally posted by WarLord
According to the British, I'm sure it was.

It was pretty amusing, my british friend had never heard of this crazy crazy lil teaparty...!

Ahh what countries leave out of their education agendas

And bfp...explain?