Zionism’s terrorist heritage - Opinion - #Israel News | Haaretz.com
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Juin 2018
There it is. Israel has a terrorism problem which has been part and parcel of Zionism even before the state was founded
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Our terrorism problem has grown so cosmeticized as to have become all but invisible. Hidden in plain sight.
It was there at the opening of the landmark official visit of Britain’s Prince William. It was there in the breezy dispatch of Israel 10 Television News correspondent Akiva Novick, who reported, in a reference to former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin’s Irgun Zvai Leumi armed underground:
"For the first time ever, an official visit of a member of the Royal Family, and in the place blown up 72 years ago by IZL men in one of the operations which brought about the end of the British mandatory rule here.
“It took very many years for the British to restrain themselves, or to have absorbed this insult.”
“The terror attack on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was in its day the equivalent of the Twin Towers,” wrote historian Tom Segev in 2006, after Benjamin Netanyahu had taken center stage at a commemoration celebrating the 60th anniversary of the attack. Years later, Segev would call it, “at the time the most lethal terrorist attack in history.”