Summary
Jabotinsky’s armed organisation, counted by Kanafani alongside the Haganah in the Zionist military build-up of 1936-1939 that David Ben-Gurion’s admissions understated.
Details
- Kanafani says Ben-Gurion tells only part of the truth in admitting the number of Jewish recruits in the Quasi-Police Force rose to 2,863 in September 1936, for this was only a part of the Jewish force: there were 12,000 men in the Haganah in 1937, in addition to a further 3,000 in Jabotinsky’s National Military Organisation (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.29 / printed p.56-57).
Related pages
The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, Haganah, Quasi-Police Force, David Ben-Gurion, Zionism