During the period of Jewish struggle against the British military in Palestine, “terrorist” had a positive connotation. In the late 1940s, American newspapers ran an advertisement with the headline, “Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine,” wherein the Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht wrote, “My Brave Friends. You may not believe what I write you, for there is a lot of fertilizer in the air at the moment. The Jews of America are for you.”
这封信是美国犹太人写给巴勒斯坦犹太恐怖分子的,这里的Terrorists of Palestine专指在巴勒斯坦的犹太恐怖分子,这些人通过刺杀来强迫西方接受犹太复国,甚至连他们的恩人也不放过,比如Folke Bernadotte。
Folke Bernadotte(1895年1月2日 - 1948年9月17日),瑞典伯爵,红十字会会长,二战中从纳粹集中营中解救了3.1万人(包括约6000名犹太人),1945年4月14日,希姆莱通过他向西方求和,但被拒绝。战后他作为联合国巴勒斯坦专员,致力于公平的调解阿拉伯人和犹太人的纠纷,结果遭到以梅纳赫姆·贝京为首的犹太恐怖分子暗杀,策划刺杀他的恐怖分子后来成了以色列的总理!The killing was approved by the three-man 'center' of Lehi: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir), Nathan Friedmann (also called Natan Yellin-Mor) and Yisrael Eldad (also known as Scheib). A fourth leader, Emmanuel Strassberg (Hanegbi) was also suspected by the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion of being part of the group that ordered the assassination. The assassination was planned by Lehi's Jerusalem operations chief, Yehoshua Zettler.
还有英国男爵Walter Edward Guinness
Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, (29 March 1880 – 6 November 1944), was an Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the Jewish terrorist group Lehi. The assassination of Lord Moyne sent shock waves through Palestine and the rest of the world.
他们当初甚至连丘吉尔都打算刺杀,因为能力不足才转而刺杀Walter Edward Guinness,要知道没有丘吉尔,欧洲犹太人早就在集中营死光了!
"Really these acts by Lord Moyne were without meaning for us. They were useful only as propaganda, because they allowed us to explain to the people why we had killed him. What was important to us was that he symbolized the British Empire in Cairo. We weren't yet in a position to try to hit Churchill in London, so the logical second best was to hit Lord Moyne in Cairo."
丘吉尔一直支持犹太人在巴勒斯坦建国,自称是Zionist,但在Walter Edward Guinness被刺杀后,他说了这样一番意味深长的话:
“如果我们为复国主义的未来付出的努力只会产生一批与纳粹德国不相上下的新匪徒,那么像我这样的许多人将不得不重新考虑我们过去如此一贯和长期坚持的立场。”
丘吉尔还指出,Walter Edward Guinness一直支持犹太人,是犹太人的朋友,居然也被犹太恐怖分子刺杀了!(He also added, "I can assure the House that the Jews in Palestine have rarely lost a better or more well-informed friend.")
这些只是犹太恐怖分子的一小部分作为,他们更主要的作为是对巴勒斯坦很多村庄的种族清洗,那是另一个话题,有兴趣的人可以自行研究。