--Teribus and Michael don't know everything.--
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I certainly make no claims to know everything; but I think Keith does not entirely understand my position. I do, however, know that the activities of the Stern Gang & Irgun in the late days of the Mandate were indeed explicitly terrorist, as I have in fact never denied, Keith. The great disappointment was that, after the successful defence of 1948, they consolidated as respectable politicians [no novelty in post-colonial situations after independence ~ cf Kenyatta, e.g.] with enough electoral support to have to form part of every government coalition; and eventually to emerge as the dominant party under Begin & his successors, leading to the present lamentable situation.

~M~