Pre-IDF Brigades: Haganah, Irgun and Lechi | History of Israel Explained | Unpacked

This week, we’re examining the underground militias that preceded the IDF and looking at the divisions that pitted Jew against Jew in pre-State Israel. Lechi. Irgun. Haganah. We ask who these groups were, what caused them to - briefly - unite and what led them to ultimately disband.
This is one of the more difficult periods in Israeli history and a subject that raises a lot of questions. After all, we aren’t talking about polite squabbles. This was real life-on-the-line-type of disagreements between Jewish groups that led to intimidation, violence and even assassinations and bombings.
The violence and actions of the period we’re talking about, from the 1930s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 showed the British (who ruled Palestine at the time) and the rest of the international community how important the establishment of a Jewish state meant to the Jewish people.
But did obtaining the Zionist dream come at the expense of morals, especially Jewish morals?
What do you think? Is violence ever a legitimate way to achieve particular goals?
Let us know your reactions in the comments below.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:04 Zionism
01:51 British military control of Palestine
02:08 Socialist Zionism
02:35 Hagana
03:20 Vladimir Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism
03:51 Irgun and the 1939 White Paper
04:28 Difference between Socialist and Revisionist Zionism
04:58 To fight the British during WWII or not to fight the British?
05:45 Lechi / The Stern Gang
06:21 Coordination with Italian fascists and German Nazis
07:06 Opposition from New Yishuv leadership
07:57 The Hunting Season (The Saison)
08:32 The Struggle and the United Resistance Movement
10:00 The Black Sabbath
10:54 Bombing of the King David Hotel
12:32 Importance to the movements of establishing a Jewish state
13:19 A dirty fight?
13:33 Outro
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[@UNPACKED]

What do you think? Is violence ever a legitimate way to achieve particular goals?

[@idflover9030]

Of course violence has to be the last option, or sometimes not even an option. But time has change and I don't think that question can be applied to the years of the ww2 and the years prior the independence of Israel. Think about it, during the Holocaust we had the Partisans. They choose violence methods in order to rescue, defende and protect Jews. Something needed to be done, we couldn't just sit and wait for something to happen, we needed to take actions and do something about our brothers being murdered for nothing. Now in this case, the three underground armies were created for that purpose. To protect and defend Jews but also to fight, to fight to have our home back, 'to be a free people in our land' just like the Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem says. The hope of more than two thousands years to live in the land of Zion and Jerusalem under hebrew's rule and not under a foreign country rule, in this case the British rule. We had this dream even before of the Holocaust and we were moving slowly towards that dream, until the Holocaust happened and we needed urgently a home a place of our own to live without fear. These three underground armies had its differences, but focusing on the Irgun and Lechi they used violence. But that was because we didn't had any other choice! Diplomacy wouldn't do anything to help the Jewish have their, our, own country ! It was enough! We couldn't just sit and wait for the next meeting with British officers, we needed to take matters on our own hands. The yearning for Eretz Israel was among all these members of the underground armies, they knew the dangers of it all but there's a time when you realize that hey, 'my brothers are being killed not just in Europe but in Israel (or British Mandate). We cannot wait for something to change. We need to fight for ourselves, for our country for a place for us' and that's what they did. In that time at that moment ' violence ', actions is what it was needed in order to fight for our home. So in that moment it was the right thing to do. Just like the Partisans did to protect and defend Jews. In the end, it's not a coincidence that the British Mandate wrote the white paper, they in fact did had conversations with Hitler, they knew what was happening in Europe and decided still to limit the acces of Jews in Israel. So diplomacy, talking and meeting with the British who wanted to control the Jewish quantity in Israel (and they did everything in their power to achieve that, including sending back the boats full of Jews back to Europe knowing what their fate would be with the nazis over there) was off limits, and without any good outcome for us. They, the three armies, may had many differences, but refering to the Irgun and Lechi they did EVERYTHING in their powers to avoid more Jewish deaths by fighting with their own life at all costs to free our country of the British Mandate so what's says in our anthem becomes a reality 'free people in our land'.

[@joshuacondell1686]

Of course. The British were given a mandate to help forge an independent Israel by the league of nations in the twenties. The British lied and instead they turned eretz Israel into a British colony. Had the Jewish underground not fought against the British there would have been no Israel. The irgun did exactly what the ira did in Ireland, the vietcong did in Vietnam and the fln did in algeria :they fought for their nation's independence from a foreign colonial power. While the haganah was appeasing the British and handing over Jewish fighters to Britain. They followed in the example of Simon bar kochba who fought the Romans 1,800 years ago. You might think them controversial but they're heroes in my book. There are a lot inaccuracies in you video. The irgun did not fight fellow jews. In fact when the haganah was turning over Jewish fighter to the British the irgun gave orders not to retaliate in order not to cause a civil war, which according to the Jewish virtual library, brought the irgun national sympathy for their cause. During ww2 the irgun did not fight the British. The stopped their campaign against the British to help the fight against Hitler. And how did they repay them? By arresting and deporting thousands of jews to Cyprus in concentration camps, executing Jewish fighters, detaining jews without trial, stirring up arab Jewish tensions (divide and rule) etc. People seem to have forgotten that the Arab invasion of Israel in 1948 was supported by the British with money and arms. They even plotted to divide eretz Israel between the conquering Arab armies, with them keeping Haifa. They desperately (UK) wanted to keep Haifa and israel under the British influence to ensure that they would remain in the middle east forever. Given the British betrayal and hostility the irgun did the logical thing and fought a guerrillas war against the British imperialists while making all efforts to minimize civilian casualties. Your trying to paint them as extremists and terrorists is frankly, disingenuous.

[@davy209]

Call them what they’re really are: TERRORIST!

[@nizarshawwa3704]

​@@joshuacondell1686 Zionism is an arbritary movement. Jews were able to seek haven in the Ottoman empire during the WWs. All of the extra bloodshed caused there by Jewish militias was not necessary. My family and other notable Palestinian tribes were opponents to the British imperialism. And we had the support of the Ottomans. A second faction that rivaled us didin't help with our opposition to the British colonists.

[@joshuacondell1686]

@@nizarshawwa3704 of course it was necessary. Was the ira justified in fighting uk? was the fln justified in fighting france? And no, zionism is a jewish nationalist movement that sought and fought for the liberation of eretz israel from foreign rule and the national independence and unity of the Jewish people after two thousands years of conquest, foreign rule,and exile (loss of jewish independence).they sought and gained national liberation just as the serbs, romanians, arabs, and other peoples of the ottoman empire did in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pls do your homework and come back.

[@mr78K]

Kinda brushing over the savagery of Irgun and Lechi against local civilians.

[@the-architect7789]

Correct, this channel is soft propaganda to normalize the occupation! They mention all details, filter some information and then conclude yeah it is the only way for Israel's security so they are right. Yeah, what about the security of Palestinians who they humiliate, beat and kill almost everyday!

[@johnmaclagan2263]

100% this is scripted propaganda The terror caused by the jewish terrorists was enough to drive out an Empire Now were just left with revenge genociding against the wrong people

[@eliasshammas3671]

it wouldnt be unpacked if it dint

[@user-dg6qh1wf1m]

This is revisionist rationalization nonsense to dissipate anyone finding out who these organizations really were and all the barbaric atrocities they committed over decades. They were officially declared terrorist organizations by both the US and Britain. They all 3 worked together and murdered tens of thousands, wiped out entire christian and Arab villages. Two of their depraved sociopath commanders became Prime Ministers. In 1947, they worked together to blow up the King David Hotel, the headquarters of the British Mandate, to eliminate evidence the British obtained in a raid proving they worked hand in hand with the local Jewish leaders and Jewish League picking and planning terrorism attacks. The Jewish League and other leadership officially denied them, even though two commanders immediately became early Prime Ministers. They didn't disband, they morphed into the new terrorist organization as the IDF in 1948 and immediately went on an ethnic cleansing murder spree known as the Nakba. They haven't changed tactics or gained any morals in the decades since. Irgun was officially formed in 1928. But there were unofficial paramilitary terrorists for decades before that. Recruited and trained cult fanatics were sent into the Ottoman Empire in the 1870's with a long term goal of taking over the region and land jews had no claim to and had only had a tiny fractional presence in for 2000 years. Originally the Ottomans allowed foreign land purchases, but moved to stop that once they realized what was happening and as the body count kept mounting The terror and murder seriously accelerated after WWI and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Lehi even went to Hitler and proposed being allies three times during WWII and the holocaust because the main goal at the time was forcing the British out of Palestine.

[@carazen]

What local civilians he only referred to them as 'Arabs' that tells you all you need to know about this racist propaganda.

[@alanhat5252]

0:56 they didn't disband, Haganah became the IDF, Irgun became Menachim Begin's Party Herut & Lehi became Netanyahu's Party Likud.

[@Ytuser485]

Let me get this right. So the self-proclaimed terrorists… Are the ones running the country running around calling everyone else terrorists?

[@user-dg6qh1wf1m]

Irgun, Lehi, and Haganah were paramilitary terrrorist groups. They became those political parties and the fascism roll continued when they became the IDF in 1948. Two of their sociopath commanders became Prime Ministers.

[@ajvorob9117]

Awesome

[@makled]

it would be interesting to mention how they massacred Palestinian villages. They were terrorist organizations, not "illegal militias" and no it is not badass, it is terrorism

[@eldariskenderfranke4284]

Can you name some in which the Hagana was involved? I'm not trying to make a point or dispute what you are saying, Ik about Deir Yasin, ik that the Irgun had in mind to ethnically cleanse everyone, what about the Hagana? I have no evidence about them. I looked in wikipedia and found nothing(ik wikipedia is allot of propaganda)

[@Kingrich_777]

….its funny how you conveniently forget the mention that Jewish settlements in 1920’s all the way to the mid 40’s fell victim to horrible massacres and “riots” perpetrated by Palestinian Arabs who wished to rid Mandatory Palestine of the few Jews living in the country. That’s kinda why the Haganah was created-to defend the Jewish settlements from Arab and British aggression. The other militia organizations were borne out a desire to commit fully to offensive military action as opposed to defensive. In other words, the other militias wished to destroy the enemies of Israel without mercy. I wouldn’t dare say that they did not commit horrible atrocities, but that wouldn’t make them “terror organizations.” Just as the U.S military’s innumerable atrocities don’t make the entity a terrorist ministry.

[@NaymitMayne]

@@Kingrich_777 so you have Zionist leaders and the British colonizers making deals in Europe to hand off an already stolen country. They begin to put up settlements and you don’t expect revolt. This idea that it’s fine to go ahead and start a new country on the grave of another is pretty insane. The idea that the land isn’t supposed to belong to any one religion is the only way it works. You can’t make deals with the colonizer to take over and bring in people from another continent and expect nothing to happen. Doesn’t matter because the British made sure Zionists had all the weapons and Palestinians had none. It’s sad that we couldn’t of had one nation with all three religions today regardless of the name. But you can’t colonize and oppress people and do whatever you want because some book you wrote thousands of years ago tells you that you are special. It’s insanely narcissistic.

[@demejiuk5660]

@@Kingrich_777These groups terrorised and bombed British institutions including the Embassy in Rome. So Arabs were supposed to watch the unfettered arrival of Jewish settlements. They were NEVER interested in sharing the land with the Arabs and they murdered in cold blood. They assassinated a Swedish Count that was just trying to negotiate a peace. Their name literally means "only by the gun". They believed in "aggressive defence" i.e the best form of defence is attack. Greater Israel was always the plan. Then these guys were absorbed into the IDF and some of these terrorists became heads of state of Israel.

[@demejiuk5660]

@@Kingrich_777They were SELF CONFESSED TERRORISTS. What are you talking about? Because they aren't f@cking Arabs??? They used violence to achieve political ends. There was no line they did not cross but you wouldn't call them terrorists. That's disgusting.

[@SionTJobbins]

You could call these militias 'terrorists'. Maybe worth keeping that in mind when people today talk of 'war on terrorism'.

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

They were defense groups

[@serdirtbagoftheleft4045]

@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Deir Yassin massacre and Bombing of Solomon Hotel

[@lidormizrhai1176]

@@serdirtbagoftheleft4045 Deir Yassin happened in the middle of a war and was the only event of similar nature against Arabs that happened in that war. King David bombing (not Solomon) was indeed a terrorist attack. The Etzel and Lehi said they notified the hotel before the explosion of a bomb. The British said they never got a call. Nevertheless Etzel and especially Hagana used sabotage and avoided killing without being shot on first. Lehi was indeed a terrorist organisation.

[@shainazion4073]

@@serdirtbagoftheleft4045 Dier Yassin was attacked because the Arabs had a 5 month blockade of Jerusalem. There is NO Solomon Hotel in Israel.

[@davy209]

I wouldn’t call a group of people responsible for bombing a hotel that killed almost a hundred people, gunning down people in Arab markets, or detonating other bombs in civilian areas, attacking local police stations, and kidnapping government officials, as a “defense force”.

[@OPENTOTHEPRESS]

Funny how at no time you mentioned these organizations as terrorists or the acts as terrorism. Double standard and hypocrisy.

[@maxcouleurs4668]

love you man. this is my comment. this just shows that jews can act as terrorists as much as hamas does today.

[@Kingrich_777]

….its funny how you conveniently forget the mention that Jewish settlements in 1920’s all the way to the mid 40’s fell victim to horrible massacres and “riots” perpetrated by Palestinian Arabs who wished to rid Mandatory Palestine of the few Jews living in the country. That’s kinda why the Haganah was created-to defend the Jewish settlements from Arab and British aggression. The other militia organizations were borne out a desire to commit fully to offensive military action as opposed to defensive. In other words, the other militias wished to destroy the enemies of Israel without mercy. I wouldn’t dare say that they did not commit horrible atrocities, but that wouldn’t make them “terror organizations.” Just as the U.S military’s innumerable atrocities don’t the entity a terrorist ministry.

[@alanhat5252]

@@Kingrich_777 "it's funny how you forgot to mention" that the settlements you describe were all on stolen land, usually stolen with an accompanying massacre. The Palestinians have never had a problem with Jews as a whole, they're fundamentally upset with Zionists though.

[@Ytuser485]

@@Kingrich_777how conveniently we forget that Lehi tried to form an alliance twice with Hitler because they believed the UK was the greater enemy. By the IDF’s definition, the Palestinians are terrorists becuase they blow up stuff. News flash, Lehi blew up stuff in Mandate of Palestine, Lebanon, even blew up Jews in Iraq. They massacred innocent civilians including women and children. Also they referred to their members as… terrorists. They blow stuff up, kill unarm civilians, try to make alliances with Hitler and they call themselves terrorists. Ya I think they check all the terrorist boxes.

[@pcolt4]

@@Kingrich_777 Sorry but we are not buying your lies. The Zionists all along arrived with the intent to steal land and drive out the Palestinians in order to engineer a Jewish state. The terror was introduce and created by the murderous Zionist colonial-settlers. The Arabs didn't begin to rebel until the land-grabbing murderous Zionists began to show their true faces through acts of theft and violence.

[@Crazed-oi3bs]

Terrorism is terrorism, executing people with trial isn’t justified at all.

[@ttom1957]

they were trailed

[@Crazed-oi3bs]

t Tom - The two British off duty Sergeants kidnapped weren’t trailed, only tortured and hanged.

[@chillyourself5208]

@@ttom1957 The victims of the Patria passenger ship disaster had no trial

[@darnit1944]

Basically the Haganah is the OG, Irgun rebelled because Haganah is not tough enough. And then Lechi rebelled because the Irgun is not tough enough.

[@roeebn5809]

Well lechi went a bit too far with it haha

[@roeebn5809]

@abcd adsdfsdf all groups have done bad. I personally prefer the Etzel for multiple reasons but I won't deny the contribution of the Hagana to the settlement.

[@michaelsalmon9832]

theyre all the israeli equivalent of the broederbond

[@maayanyaniv7539]

fun fact! the irgun is actually a false translation, the word irgun in hebrew just means "organisation" the organisation was actually called the etzel, an acronym for "military national organisation" in hebrew

[@vulpes7079]

Lehi was the most based

[@olracorig]

The sterngang actually wanted to ally with Hitler to kick out the British. That's how rightwing they were.

[@user-dg6qh1wf1m]

Yup. Lehi approached Hitler 3 times during WWII and the holocaust proposing they be allies against the British. All 3 worked in concert together wiping out hundreds of christian and Arab villages. In 1947, they worked together to blow up the King David Hotel, the headquarters of the British Mandate, to eliminate evidence the British obtained in a raid proving they worked hand in hand with the local Jewish leaders and Jewish League picking and planning terrorism attacks. The Jewish League and other leadership officially denied them, even though two commanders immediately became early Prime Ministers. Similar to how today's israeli government pretends they aren't behind the sadistic squatters in the West Bank.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Abraham Stern and his gang were fascist terrorists. But unlike other figures and groups who are labeled that by their critics and enemies, Stern himself declared the ideology of Lehi as fascist and tried to form an alliance with Mussolini and Hitler with these credentials which were sincere and followed Mussolini’s Doctrine of Fascism and modeled itself after Hitler’s Mein Kampf except he switched out the Aryans and Jews. He continued to deny the Holocaust even after the end of WWII. Stern also labeled Lehi as a terrorist organization himself, which they proudly admitted in their publications. Lehi didn’t just terrorize the British colonialists and Palestinians. They terrorized fellow Jews and Israelis and assassinated respected figures and heroes in the Jewish community. For example they assassinated Rudolf Kastner who was responsible for saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust with nearly 2,000 of them in the Kastner Train alone. Lehi hypocritically smeared this hero of Israel as a Nazi collaborator who was responsible for countless deaths in the Holocaust and then murdered him.

[@AA-jg7xm]

Please tell about King David Hotel bombing

[@vikkuvikram1]

Yeah yeah.. I know u listen to Zakir Naik. Yes they blew up King David hotel. So???

[@miabrown6036]

Vikram Vikku So they were terrorists, and still are (IDF). Duh.

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

@@100gentile3 I'm just here to laugh at your name and profile pic 😅🤣😂

[@thisisaname3283]

Is it just me or has everyone here repeatedly slammed their heads into a brick wall?

[@lighthunter8917]

@Samuel Levy just like how obama took the peace prize when he destabilized the whole middle east. And no one is jealous about your bullshit, people superiority is measured by piety, behaviour, knowledge....etc Not by RACISM.

[@CorneliuZeleaCodreanu9]

But nothing about massacred civilians, raided villages or hanged british officers and sunken passenger boats, ey?

[@bennywolfe4357]

Haganah:” go for it.” Haganah: backs out. Also Haganah: “I can’t believe you did this!”

[@VivaLibano]

So what is the difference between these and Hamas?

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

One is supported by UN

[@ShailendraSINGH-jk2ev]

ZILT

[@japanesedog03]

one is middle eastern and one is european

[@Dragoncam13]

One is an actual defense miltia,the others were outright terrorists

[@iiTZSMALLSZ]

One is a response to the other. One is supported by big European powers.

[@fatib3200]

Militant groups or terrorist organisations?

[@sharkquisha3407]

Terror organizations obviously

[@commanderchaos5670]

Depends on what side of the fence your on.

[@user-dg6qh1wf1m]

@@commanderchaos5670 I have friend who makes that observation. He points out that jewish perspective all depends on which side of the barbed wire they are on. On one side they are crying, if on the outside everyone else is dying. Jews had only a fractional, barely existent population in Palestine for 2000 years until the first armed terrorist squatters were sent into the Ottoman Empire from Europe in the 1870's. Then the murder and ethnic cleansing began. The 'war' has been going on for 150 years

[@tylersmith3139]

Irgun and Lechi were, but not the Haganah.

[@commanderchaos5670]

@@user-dg6qh1wf1m I don't think its fair to summerize that all jewish people think the same about basically anything. I'm sure you don't know the they started buying land legally in Palestine from the Ottomans. Neither side is free from doing horrible things to the other. Arabs attacked jewish settlements as well.

[@therealjohneason]

13:31 I think this video focuses on the British and Jews while ignoring the Palestinians who were the victims of both.

[@VictorLepanto]

You certainly should mention the Jewish Brigade in the British military during WWII. A real front line military force fighting as artillery, infantry & many other basic military functions. Very valuable experience in creating a real national defense force.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Yeah I thought he would mention them

[@user-dg6qh1wf1m]

However, the bulk of the newly formed fascist death cult IDF formed in 1948 came from these paramilitary terrorist groups who had been bombing and murdering entire villages, including Christians for 70 years prior

[@adambayam]

Correction: the three riot periods are 20-21, 29 and 36-39

[@jonathano.7109]

12:44 'It (bombings, assassinations, etc) showed the international community how much establishing a Jewish state meant to the Jewish people.' Interesting. What advice would you give Palestinians demanding a Palestinian state? It's called terrorism by the way, not 'militias'.

[@UNPACKED]

Advice for Palestinians: accept any of one the dozen peace deals/compromises Israel offered, even if it’s not perfect. You can learn more here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5y8iHx_Z5qWrq8

[@jonathano.7109]

@@UNPACKED Accept it or....? That sounds like a threat, or at least an imposition. The answer is that we do not know what the Palestinian reaction would be to a fair deal because they have not been offered one. The closest and fairest peace deal was ended when Rabin was assassinated - not by a Palestinian terrorist but by an Israeli. Rabin's widow directly blamed Netanyahu, although to be fair many Israelis were calling for his murder. The Israeli people have never been willing to pay the full price for peace - namely, a sovereign Palestine and an end to Israeli colonial pretensions.

[@UNPACKED]

Accept it, or keep fighting a war that they will lose. And we know what choice the Palestinian people and their leaders have unfortunately chosen time and again. Peace deals and compromises don’t always seem fair, but when the alternative is war and suffering, which is preferred? You can learn more about the breakdown of Oslo here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4SscopqmL1paKssi=WdmIqLkPlD2q1DI9

[@jonathano.7109]

@@UNPACKED I will watch it. This video was very informative also - so thank you.

[@brandoncantu270]

​@UNPACKED so your response to Palestinians dying is either they stay in a concentration camp and die or give up their land and identity and more than likely still die?

[@Montasir125]

I'm impressed - a video talking about terrorist organisations, without using the term terrorist.

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

and what were the arabs?

[@Montasir125]

@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 everyone calls them terrorists already - what's your point?

[@ShailendraSINGH-jk2ev]

HYPOCRITES

[@eastbayman2160]

Mandela was a terrorist by that definition! Not to mention every revolutionary in history.

[@Ali-zo4lh]

@@eastbayman2160 hmm I'm missing the part where Mandela massacred and butchered whole villages

[@blackhawck70]

Always the victim? 🤔

[@justcomments1239]

✌️hayalim almonim...

[@atarasarinanetanel8582]

Yup 👍

[@the-architect7789]

So what is the difference between these pre IDF brigades and Hamas then? Didn't all of them use terror to reach a political goal and fight for their freedom. Doesn't that make IDF a terrorist organization as well since they still use the same tactics?? Double Standards??

[@brandoncantu270]

The double standards are very high in this video, the founders of Hamas were victims of the IDF's brutal massacre during the Suez Canal Crisis. Any boy above the age of 13 were rounded up and executed in multiple villages in Gaza. 3 boys who escaped mass execution and began to retaliate.

[@the-architect7789]

@@brandoncantu270 True!

[@ajvorob9117]

​@@brandoncantu270I call bs on this

[@ajvorob9117]

​@@brandoncantu270hamas is an offshoot of the muslim brotherhood you liar

[@RomanDeLaMancha]

I'm not Jewish, but I am trying to learn and understand this complicated history. I can't help but ask, if other people are not entitled to their ancestral lands, why are the zionists entitled to theirs? It seems like most Jews were not on board with the idea until they needed a safe space whèn Hitler started his reign of terror

[@siogbeagbideach]

Look into the Round Table 1909, a Rothschild club. Balfour, Rhodes... "global conflict and elite integration in the 19th and early 20th centuries" Uni of Cali, Riverside

[@Dragoncam13]

And coincidentally enough the polish government at the time were training Jewish terrorists to send to mandatory Palestine right before the Germans invaded

[@user-dg6qh1wf1m]

They were not ancestral lands for the jews. All that is a fake backstory the jews wrote for themselves after their religious cult emerged after 400 BC. They create the 3000 year old culture claim by co-opting the Israelites who were semitic (which means Arab speaking) Canaanites and poly-theistic. Everyone accepts the BS founding myth because they use the same names and words, israel, israelites, and everyone accepts the co-opting as fact. The Canaanites were a generalized group of various Arab tribes. The jews only ever had autonomic control of a small region before the Romans booted them. For the last 2000 years the jews only had a tiny fractional presence in the Levant until the armed paramilitary squatters were sent in the 1870's to begin ethnic cleansing through any means possible. The issue was never about a 'safe place.' European jews began discussing having a country for their religious cult, they are not a race, after the fall of Napolean when all of Europe coalesced into Nationalist countries. The problem was everywhere was already taken by people with real nationalist claims. They even discussed possibilites in Africa, but they are stunningly racist considering all the victim whining. They discussed Alaska but no one wanted to be cold. They even discussed Grand Island NY. Can you imagine when they started murdering Americans and Canadians to expand by ethnic cleansing like they have in Palestine?

[@ajvorob9117]

​@@user-dg6qh1wf1mlaughably false revisionist drivel

[@jevro]

Why would all jews have to be on board? Of course many people come to terms with their homeland being taken away from them 2000 years prior. But judging by the Holocaust, other european antisemitism and the expulsion of 850 thousand jews from arab countries the zionists very clearly have had the right idea. Only jews can defend jews.

[@marcejb5929]

Make a video of the battle of tel chai, and one from Yosef Trumpledor

[@AA-jg7xm]

I think that was caused by a misunderstanding..... The Shia militia was after French not jews

[@nickjagdeo1]

So well explained! In a previous video you spoke about Ben gurion admitting that “if he had known Jabotinsky better in the past, our future would’ve been different.” W the change coalition in control, I feel we are at a place where we can utilize common ground between the competing political/religious beliefs within Jewry. We are weak alone… stronger together

[@user-dg6qh1wf1m]

Complete BS. Ben Gurion and others, including the Jewish League worked directly with the terrorist paramilitaries to ethnic cleanse Palestine. This guy is putting out revisionist propaganda BS to thwart anyone from realizing the real history and savagery of the jews taking over land they had no claim to

[@nizarshawwa3704]

@unpacked There's misinformation. Haganah and restraint? didnt launch attacks? Could you please explain to me how the Haganah bombed the Patria ship? It killed around 200 Jews accidently with it. 25 November 1940, Haifa Port. Whats your respone?

[@miabrown6036]

Nizar Shawwa Three months later... Still no response. Color me shocked.

[@neuenglander]

@@miabrown6036 As if they have time to read every comment from NPCs like yourself.

[@TheWatsonGreen]

Erik E. Yeah too busy making more bullshit propaganda presented as neutral

[@okyes5671]

The policy of “restraint” ended in 1939 the ship bombing was in 1940

[@nizarshawwa3704]

​@@okyes5671 Ahh too bad for the +200 Jews who got killed by it then? Or how does this work?

[@rexhardesty]

Excellent history filled in some of the gaps for me.

[@timmcdraw7568]

Yeah because its full of sh*t

[@cherkas009]

they had two thousand years of Jewish morals that didn't get them Israel

[@VKN01]

Kindly name the background music ..

[@shayasussman5097]

Your guys videos are awsom! Keep up the good work.

[@timmcdraw7568]

This is a totally “real” comment

[@googleuser2470]

@@timmcdraw7568 This is a totally "real" comment, oh wow.

[@waffensachverstandcom5505]

Exzellent and informational video

[@michaelallan5866]

Jewish morals?

[@azimuthenigma6621]

My grandfather was in Lechi. Had some crazy stories!

[@moedoes1989]

If he’s dead he’s in hell

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

@@moedoes1989 anti semite

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

@@MT-kx2uc *jihadists

[@Savldj]

@What Aboutism only if u consider palestinian militants as terrorists too

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

​@What Aboutism and what are arab militants?

[@andreistoica2470]

The story refer to after the war events during Cold War

[@hellsing507]

Stern was fucking insane

[@alanhat5252]

...& went on to form the Likud political party. Netanyahu's party.

[@LinuxUser00]

It's a long history, with collaborations with States that would surprise people @@alanhat5252

[@rexhardesty]

Would like to hear a history of what Middle East nation citizens have achieved the Nobel.

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

You mean that piece of toilet paper which a group of self entitled people hand to each other so they feel good about themselves? Yeah, I heard about it too.

[@DeusHex]

@@theemirofjaffa2266 when the cure for cancer comes dont use it idiot

[@barsozer155]

@@theemirofjaffa2266 Based

[@mahdiabderraouf5795]

@@theemirofjaffa2266 Ahhhh! So you guys are talking about Non-Muslim westerners. Yep. They are pretty disgusting, aren't they? Even in this era, they don't clean themselves properly..

[@gardayustisia4528]

Maybe Anwar Sadat ?

[@General_Alch]

It's sounds like different factions storylines in Skyrim

[@jasongroenewald3683]

Of course violence should be a second option only, but lets not be naïve to think that diplomacy alone will lead to a conducive conclusion. Sometimes war is the only way things can be achieved and that's not to say it should always be the case. It varies in circumstance. This is simply the human conundrum that we sit with unfortunately.

[@skp8748]

So you support hamas

[@Conn30Mtenor]

I had no idea about this Jew-on-Jew conflict. Thanks for that.

[@alanhat5252]

Zionists not Jews

[@mamunyusuf836]

Stealing land from others in not defense.

[@tylersmith3139]

When did they steal land? They settled parts of the region that weren't inhabited and Palestinians attacked and hated them because they weren't Muslim.

[@andreistoica2470]

Looks like what Autobots Decepticons and Comstructiconii are based of

[@robcorrente6065]

Hi thanks for sharing these videos really helpful to understand Israel’s history. It would be nice to understand the Altalena incident.

[@alanhat5252]

Just remember it's a video so lots of important details are missing. They've captured the general theme though.

[@scathachmuirisc7149]

A very short history...a nanosecond in terms of world history....

[@julietasued9023]

So well explained!! Thank you so much for making this video

[@oklol9245]

If violence doesn't help you then you're not using enough violence. -Tank Fish

[@houseofcoffee3737]

I like how he skipped the Dier Yassin Massacre by the Irgun. Killing 117 Palestinian including children and women. You are trying hard to polish your violent history.

[@atarasarinanetanel8582]

It was Lehi. As far as I know. And the place is deir yassin.

[@atarasarinanetanel8582]

If the people who were involved have passed away. And there's nobody that can do anything positive or negative. Can't everyone put the subject to rest in a grave as well?

[@houseofcoffee3737]

@@atarasarinanetanel8582 would you say that about the Crusades and the Holocaust?

[@atarasarinanetanel8582]

@@houseofcoffee3737 unfortunately we literally can't do anything besides Yom zikaron/hashoah and Tisha b'av...... So I'm going say that memory is sometimes a positive thing. But you must do positive with it. I have Asperger's and the childhood trauma is going to need to be addressed and worked on. But I'm not going to try and seek revenge or something on all my bully's or people in authority .... I'm going to prove to myself that I am worth it. I think I already have begun to work on it. Both my husband and I have Asperger's and we'll will work on our self improvement in spite of the things people did and say. Because that's the best thing to do as a human being. Survive the waves. Literally try to be like Mr miyagi. Not kreese or silver. This is what I want to take with me when I am standing in the heavenly court. They are not going to ask how long or well I held on to a grudge. They are going to ask how I did my self improvement. I will be better for this.

[@alanhat5252]

11:40 Haganah & Lehi didn't back out, they were just mired in wranglings about the timing, Irgun was impatient & did it without them.

[@JohnReon]

June 1948: The ship Altalena arrives off the Israeli coast with a shipment of arms destined for the Irgun. Ben-Gurion orders the IDF to prevent the arms from being unloaded. An armed struggle ensues, the Altalena sinks, and several members of the Irgun are killed or wounded. Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin (the leader of Irgun) become deep-seated enemies.

[@satchel6667]

these people were terrorists. Say that.

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

Anti semite

[@lounolastname4477]

@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 shut it with the anti-Semite nonsense, you knob

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

​@@lounolastname4477 jihadist

[@andreistoica2470]

You know that Transformers franchise fracționa are based on this factions

[@barsozer155]

Wait, really ?

[@hals6118]

How convenient that your history of the Haganah, Irgun, and Lechi ends right before the Deir Yassin massacre...

[@UNPACKED]

We are actually planning on releasing a video dedicated to that. Having it as a footnote in this video would not do it justice.

[@warpedcomedy]

The "massacre" was a battle. Many or the Arab dead were combatants and 5 of the dead were Irgun and Lehi fighters.

[@warpedcomedy]

@ShadyRestRetirement Home Well that would be wrong because it was a genocide, not self defense against a deadly enemy which is what the Jews had to do.

[@davy209]

The video conveniently ignores the countless terrorists attacks committed by the Irgun against Arab civilians pre 1947.

[@goldersgreen2177]

Deir yassin was committed by Lebanese Christians, not Israel

[@Andrew-mo9gp]

Militia? Strange way to say terrorist groups.

[@DaveS1863]

Very well done. Thank you!!

[@davidleonard3887]

I think there were 5

[@jasonfromguitarcenter]

Jacob: *Says Black Sabbath *Paranoid Intensifies

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

the haganah waas formed in 1920

[@franscobben9044]

Terrorism?

[@GraemeWight-wx3xz]

Terrorists then and terrorists now. They dont believe in God but bleat about how he promised them.

[@andreistoica2470]

During Israel- arab war in this case Cybertronian- Insecticonian War in Transformers case

[@JunoItaliano]

This video was very good and it taught me a lot. Thank you for this video. I love Israel and it’s cool to see how the Jews fought and struggled to regain their promised homeland. God is good. 🇮🇱❤

[@paulatreides6218]

Have seen a group like this in Narcos.

[@walterbenjamin1386]

I think Three Cheers for the Lechi, Irgun and Haganah! Jews have to fight to defend themselves!

[@zenoah9849]

*puts on hazmat suit and gas mask* Ok im ready to go into the comments now....

[@Bak807]

I really like these videos! I use them in college as a starting point for discussions in class!!

[@UNPACKED]

That's really awesome, thanks! Where do you teach?

[@Bak807]

Jerusalem U I teach at Elon University in the US.

[@miabrown6036]

BAK Stop indoctrinating our youth with your racist, genocidal political ideology. Pushing your agenda and biased perspective is not your job. Your job is to present FACTS only. Using a KZbin channel that pushes propaganda as a teaching tool is lazy and unethical.

[@miabrown6036]

Ulf Joakim Then you haven’t read her other comments. And yet you speak for her? No, indoctrination is exactly what she’s doing.

[@DeusHex]

Gees that must be hard in today's universities

[@justamit2760]

there was more then 3. for example HaPalmach and the Shomer and Nili

[@UNPACKED]

The Palmach was a unit within the Hagana. Nili lasted just under 2 years well before the formation of the state in 1915-1917 so aren't "pre-IDF brigades", and Hashomer was a guard/defence organization between 1909 and 1920 so also doesn't fit the definition.

[@googlenutzer3384]

They where terrororganisations

[@phillipraffle6966]

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

[@Dragoncam13]

​@@phillipraffle6966nope,these people were undeniably terrorist in nature

[@joserosales9106]

Thank you for yours videos and at the same time I recommend you read the book The Irgun, It´s true history by Menahjem Begin...Regards from Honduras

[@alanhat5252]

He should know, he was Prime Minister representing the political party they formed.

[@pablowasserman]

the subtitles are slightly out of sync, around minute 5 or 6. pls fix it! great video!

[@UNPACKED]

Fixed! Thanks for letting us know.

[@osmk6223]

The OG Terrorist organisations

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

And what were arab militias?

[@osmk6223]

@kitty cat with internet access🇺🇦 read up on Deir Yassin massacre and the massacres carried out by the Irgun, Lechi and Hahanah. They were terrorists by definition and formed the basis of the IDF and other parties in the Knesset. The very foundations of Israel are built on deception, land theft, massacre and a supremacist racist ideology being Zionism.

[@robraw101]

I ❤️🇮🇱

[@miabrown6036]

Robert Raw Oh for sure. Genocide and apartheid is awesome.

[@miabrown6036]

Satanic Beer Chugger Riiiight... Keep playing dumb while the rest of the world follows the case against Israel in the International Criminal Court. 💥 Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes is a war crime according to ICC. 🔥Article 6 of the UN Arms Trade Treaty states that, “a State Party shall not authorise any transfer of conventional arms… if it has knowledge at the time of authorisation that the arms or items would be used in the commission of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, attacks directed against civilian objects or civilians protected as such, or other war crimes as defined by international agreements to which it is a Party.” 🔸legal.un.org/avl/ha/att/att.html 🔸www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-03/fs_1903_at_2018_0.pdf

[@miabrown6036]

Amr Khaledd Thank you 😊

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

@@miabrown6036 loser

[@sharkquisha3407]

Trash flag

[@claydogr1143]

I watch this video in light of the recent Oct. 7th attacks on Israelis by Hamas militants. The similarities between the resolve by the zionists commitment to do whatever it had to to gain an independent state and Hamas to do the same is clear. It should be abundantly clear that the answer to today's conflict is an independent Palestinian state. You would think that of all people the jews would sympathize with the struggle of the Palestinians. Instead they are imposing the same actions and using the same language that were used against them in the Holocaust. Calling arabs animals and inhuman? Doesn't that sound familiar? The answer for Israeli peace and security is not the confiscation of all of Palestine. It first needs to face the wrongs that it has committed against the Palestinians and then make restitution. I believe that if this is done with mutual commitment to peace and moving forward that Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side together. I have always had sympathy for the persecution that jews have suffered but now am saddened that they are persecuting another group of people themselves. I guess it's true that hurt people hurt people. It's time to end the cycle of violence and find compassion and peace ... Shalom ✌🏼

[@ajvorob9117]

Dumb comment

[@ajvorob9117]

There is no "Palestine " to confiscate. It's all eretz Yisrael

[@sherbesh5421]

I think that was the only way to kick out the British. They were very bright and brave and still are.

[@andreistoica2470]

Haganah Roll out

[@saullopez3073]

I am not really a Zionist sympathizer, but your video was really informative

[@UNPACKED]

Thanks! The point is to inform, not to get you to have a certain opinion.

[@miabrown6036]

Saul Lopez Don’t encourage them. Unpacked is a Zionist propaganda channel, which began as Jerusalem U which was co-chaired by Alan Dershowitz.

[@zenoah9849]

@@miabrown6036 OH THE HORROR! ZIONISTS ON KZbin! WHO WOULD LET THIS HAPPEN!? 🙄

[@TheWatsonGreen]

Ze Noah we don’t care if you’re on KZbin it’s Palestine you need to leave

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

@@miabrown6036 loser

[@alanhat5252]

1:56 1920 not 1923

[@pathikritchoudhury6611]

Hagannah wasn’t underground. Irgun and Lehi were

[@gman916123]

Brilliant video, thank you

[@alanhat5252]

10:06 Jerusalem & Tel Aviv-Jaffa aren't far apart

[@govindagovindaji4662]

Kinda out of order...long before Ben Gurion was Herzol sp?...and others....

[@scathachmuirisc7149]

Terrorism 101.......

[@deafprophet]

You have conveniently forgotten helminths of the Palmech

[@parkbench94]

Is your God alive? Beyond the physical and spiritual connection, space and time, where does your God dwell and communicate? Are thoughts in your head evidence or discernment? Does your God write books for you to read and believe? Low level communications, now being transformed into a higher realm using technology that you don't comprehend, makes your God a greater mystery. Inspired to write books and now artificial intelligence, changes the prophet into scientist and you comprehend even less. Are you talking to your God through an on/off switch? Beguiled by magic and you are easy to believe in false Gods. Knowledge separated from thinking creates robots without spirit.

[@scottadler]

Scientology?

[@raanangeberer3113]

I think you're on the wrong site

[@AlexanderHL1919]

Jordan is still not part of Israel, so theres work yet to be completed. Since you asked what I think..

[@stephenelliott4056]

i’ve been to kielce and saw the place where the pogrom-like attack took place - poland was complicit and is still massively anti-semitic

[@carleeeen]

They didn’t just disband they integrated into the Israeli government and military. 😮‍💨🫣

[@pauldarling330]

Ben Gurion hated the Irgun more than the Nazis. Says a lot about him.

[@Dragoncam13]

Cause he knew that Irgun made them all look bad PR wise and would further justify people not liking the jews

[@alnaghashmn]

So he compared a terrorist movement to pizza. Must be very rotten.

[@user-nc2kt8ze7o]

Remember the King David Hotel , and other attacks even in London.

[@yoyoyo7454]

Jewish morals? It is a Torah commandment to do whatever is necessary to save Jewish life. If you say the Lehi and Irgun weren’t moral according to the Torah you have to take another look at it.

[@jasonokasuo3401]

So, if you need to sacrifice a goi to save a jew, you sacrifice the goi? o_O

[@marthapfahl3192]

maybe its you, who have to take another look at it. you took an old mystic book literal and bring so much mess in the world by this. is this your book at all? jews study it thier life long, still not understand it. whats this, you have a book you dont even understand? who are the true israelites? at least for sure not those who took a piece of earth more important than a life that GOD created.

[@luciens3588]

A war is never registered as legal to any planet in this universe

[@nizarshawwa3704]

And why should the ending encompass the British as the victim, what about the natives in all of this? Most military actions were done against Palestinian villages, actively expelling people from their land.

[@hre2044]

Because Irgun bombed British military based and killed tons of people....

[@nizarshawwa3704]

@@hre2044 bruh, the operations and attacks on Palestinian villages were equal if not greater in consistency. Check any site that lists their bombings and military operations.

[@miabrown6036]

Nir Hakimian Really? Nazi Muslims? And yet Christians and Druze were ALSO residing there. You guys can’t keep your lies straight. You do realize that YOU are the bigot here, more like a Nazi than the Palestinians. This is why the whole world is turning against Zionism. Including here in America.

[@cherkas009]

@@miabrown6036 anti-Semitism that you expose is nothing new

[@lighthunter8917]

And what's more astonishing is the fact that the last leader of those UN recognised terrorists and the founder of the Luked party, which is now running the country.

[@Psychiatry.321]

Palmach was speaking Yiddish

[@PsyOps404]

They amalgamated and morphed into the IDF.

[@guyhasid5508]

Jewish heroic

[@matthelme4967]

How do we cover up European land theft? I know just call it the British Mandate.

[@shainazion4073]

The Ottomans signed their land over to the Allies after WW1. The Allies turned the responsibility of the land to the League of Nations. The League of Nations stole nothing. Read some history, they established many Arab countries.

[@matthelme4967]

@@shainazion4073 They established colonies

[@crazyshorts4278]

​@@shainazion4073are u nuts?

[@mohammedelkhatib737]

Another interesting fact, the stern gang did these things: - Brutally massacred innocent Palestinians in the Dayr Yassin. - Assassinated anyone remotely close to political ties to freedom of Palestinians - ANHIALIATED the entire town of Qisarya brutally killing innocent Palestine (Land that was stolen)

[@justabeardedguythatisahero9848]

The chad jew vs the virgin palsh*t

[@ramimzalbat4814]

Illegal underground army sound very familiar in 2023😅…

[@westwoodoralsurgerydentalgroup]

I am hard core pro- Israel… and may I say, that this is a great unbiased video about the events the occurred before the state was established. Yes, there are harsh things to consider and some actions did go against Jewish morality. But, unfortunately, no state and no state’s history is pristine

[@andreistoica2470]

About Transformers franchise events

[@yousefalfahad2945]

homie its called palestine every single british document just proves that! (ur not doing urself a favor by showing us these documents)"badass underground army" sounds like a group i know 🇵🇸

[@artspooner]

I am somebody who is not Jewish, Israeli, Arab nor Muslim. I am just trying to learn more about the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict (for want of a better word/term). What I have noticed is the spin pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli videos/articles put in their content. In this video, they seem to be very careful not to mention who was there before the "British Mandate for Palestine" was established, only "picking things up from the 1920's" see 1:50, or calling the area, 'pre-state Israel' and i.e. no mention of Palestine or the Palestinian people. No exploration of what led to the Arab rioting other than hints it's due to race/anti-semetism. Maybe this is the case but the more I look into this, it does seem that there was understandable resentment of being displaced from one's homeland. There is no mention of Plan Dalet or even the Nakba. Would be good to see the Zionist perspective on these events as only pro-Palestinian authors seem to talk about these and therefore shape the narrative. Pro-Palestinian authors do the same. They don't really address the plight of the Jewish people and explore the need for a Jewish state. I think authors on both sides (as with all people) are sometimes unwitting in their biases but it does feel like their are strategic omissions (again as all people do) which is unhelpful if we are to meet in the middle and gain an understanding of each others position. Sadly it all comes down to human nature.