Summary
The mobile Zionist striking forces which, in Sayegh’s account, Britain trained under its alliance with Zionist colonialism in Palestine.
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Britain trained mobile Zionist striking forces (the Palmach), alongside permitting the Zionist community to maintain its military establishment, the Haganah, and condoning the Stern Group and the Irgun (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.7 / printed p.212).
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In Pappe’s Chapter Five, the Palmach received its Operation Nachshon orders on 1 April 1948, finalised the night before at Ben-Gurion’s house (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.117); its troops under Moshe Kalman carried out the Ayn al-Zaytun massacre of 2 May 1948 (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.141-143), and 1,000 Palmach troops took Safad after its hinterland was cleansed (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.127).
Related pages
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, Haganah, Irgun, Stern Group, Imperialism