Mandatory Palestine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Beginning of Zionist insurgency==== [[File:VE day Jerusalem 1945.jpg|thumb|Jerusalem on [[VE Day]], 8 May 1945]] The Jewish [[Lehi (group)|Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel)]] and [[Irgun|Irgun (National Military Organisation)]] movements initiated [[Jewish insurgency in Palestine|violent uprisings]] against the British Mandate in the 1940s. On 6 November 1944, [[Eliyahu Hakim]] and [[Eliyahu Bet Zuri]] (members of Lehi) assassinated [[Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne|Lord Moyne]] in [[Cairo]]. Moyne was the British Minister of State for the Middle East and the assassination is said by some to have turned British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] against the Zionist cause. After the assassination of Lord Moyne, the [[Haganah]] kidnapped, interrogated, and turned over to the British many members of the Irgun ("[[The Hunting Season]]"), and the Jewish Agency Executive decided on a series of measures against "terrorist organisations" in Palestine.<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/season.html The "Hunting Season" (1945)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527054031/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/season.html |date=27 May 2016 }} by Yehuda Lapidot ([[Jewish Virtual Library]])</ref> Irgun ordered its members not to resist or retaliate with violence, so as to prevent a civil war. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page