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Haganah

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Haganah
הַהֲגָנָה
Dates of operation1920-1948
Merged into"Israel" Defense Force
AllegianceZionist Entity
Motives
  • Establishment of a Zionist ethnostate in Palestine
  • Ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population
IdeologyZionism
AlliesIrgun
Stern Gang
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (sometimes)
OpponentsPalestine
Battles and warsPalestinian genocide

Haganah was a Zionist terrorist organization in British-occupied Palestine established in 1920. It played a major role in the Palestinian uprisings of 1929, 1936, the Nakba and in a program to draw topographic maps of Palestinian villages, known as the Village Files. Later became a large part of the Israeli Occupation Force after the State of "Israel" was established in 1948, with its leader, David Ben-Gurion, later becoming prime minister of the illegal colonial entity.[1]

Formation and purpose

The Haganah, literally meaning "defense" (הֲגָנָה) in Hebrew, was established in 1920. After 1936, under the influence of Orde Charles Wingate, a British official who understood the necessity of forming a military force to take Palestine by force, it quickly became the military wing of the Jewish Agency, the embryonic Zionist government in Mandatory Palestine [2]. It was used to protect Zionist settlements bought by the JNF, Jewish National Fund, from absentee landlords and to attack, demoralize and break the Palestinian resistance [3].

Village Files

References

  1. Maher Charif (2023). Roots of Zionist Terrorism.
  2. Ilan Pappé (2006). The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: 'Chapter 2; Military Preparations' (p. 15). [PDF] Oneworld Publications. ISBN 9781851685554 [LG]
  3. John Bierman; Colin Smith (1999). Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion, vol. Book 2: 'Chapter 6'. [PDF] Random House. ISBN 9780375500619 [LG]