I might add the hanging by Irgun of two British sergeants on the night of 11th/12th July 1947, Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice; + the booby-trapping of their bodies resulting in serious injuries to those cutting them down. And the killing by a postal-bomb of the brother, Rex, of Major Roy Farran, whose initial was the same so the wrong one opened it, 3 May 1948; followed on 11 May 48 by a letter bomb addressed to Sir Evelyn Barker, former Commanding Officer in Palestine, being detected in the nick of time by his wife.

They meant business, you know. There are plenty in Israel now, Keith, I wouldn't mind betting, who will maintain that it was "through" such activities that the State came into being.

~M~