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- #181
- ok, so you are claiming only those arrested and prosecuted committed crimes? Seriously? Begin was a commander of Irgun, a terrorist paramilitary group. Their actions like those of Hamas, are a matter of record particularly when they claimed credit.
ISIS has committed many atrocities and murders. Few, if any, of their commanders have been brought to justice. Therefore, according to your logic, ISIS hasn't committed those crimes. Really now?
Neither Begin nor Mandella renounced the use of violence.
Yes under any civilised nations laws that is the case, otherwise I could accuse you of raping and murdering children and you would be stigmatised for the rest of your life.
True.
Not at all the authorities are waiting until they are in a position to arrest the criminals and then they will be tried. Does not mean they have not committed the crimes at all. In the case of Begin he could have been arrested and tried many times and the British did nothing. Could it be they had something to hide from the world, like the mass murder of 10's of 1000's of Jews fleeing Europe and the Nazi's ?
He was never captured. That does not mean he wasn't guilty. Just like ISIS. Just like Hamas. He was the commander of Irgun and as a result, responsible for ordering what they did - just like a Hamas commander. If the British mass murdered Jews, that doesn't make Begin's actions any less horrific nor does it justify them. They are civilian targets.
The targets were those that were attacking the Jews in Palestine, not civilians. Like the arab muslims action on the orders of the grand mufti or the British establishment sending thousands of Jews to their deaths. I am ashamed of my nations past history in the M.E. and other places when they killed thousands for no other reason than they were a different culture or religion.
So how is Begin guilty of the deaths caused by defence of the Jewish people and not the Palestinians that do the same thing. Or for that matter you who defends the actions of the Palestinians when they attack Jewish women and children., and don't say you don't as the evidence is on this board.
You are on very thin ice here - you are essentially justifying Palestinian targeting of civilians.
Some of Irgun's attacks during Begin's commandership:
1946, October 31 Bombing of the British Embassy in Rome. Nearly half the building was destroyed and 3 people were injured.
1947, December 12 20 killed, 5 wounded by barrel bomb at Damascus Gate.
1947, December 16(ca) 10 killed by bomb at Noga Cinema in Jaffa.
1948, January 7 20 Arabs killed by bomb at Jaffa Gate.
These were civilian targets much like the targets Hamas chooses.
Bombs, especially barrel bombs are indiscriminate and designed to do as much damage to human flesh as possible.
So a link to a link of a link to wikipedia is now the only evidence that is true. Would your claim stand up in a court of law ?
Where is the supporting evidence to show that the Jews did the killings ?
Suddenly you don't like wiki even though you've used it?
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Here are more sources:
St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search
The Vancouver Sun - Google News Archive Search
There are more, you can look them up. Quite often, they took credit for it
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And if you bother to look the vast majority were actions against attacks on the Jews by arab muslim terrorists.
They happened during the civil war instituted by the arab muslims in 1947/1948 or the arab revolt of 1937/1939.
They were not premeditated mass murders as you are trying to claim, but responces to armed attacks.
Quite a few were aimed at civilian targets. Cinimas, open areas where civilians congregated. Really, you need to stop trying to make excuses for terrorism