I imagine you are inquiring about terrorist acts against Israelis. which included Fadayeen attacks and Israeli reprisals. The Arab states did not accept the existence of the State of Israel. Acts of hostility were part and parcel of everyday life for the State of Israel especially those in border settlements.So gangs known as the fedayeen were trained to infiltrate from the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian border, leaving a trail of death and destruction behind. Between 1948 and 1956, a total of 1,200 Israeli citizens were killed or wounded and more than 6,000 terrorist activites were recorded.
This is only one example of terrorist acts from that region.
However, there are other examples of so-called Zionist Terrorist Activities between 1939 - 1947
In 1939 Haganah blew up the Iraqi oil pipeline near Haifa. Moshe Dayan was one of the participants in the act. This technique was used again in 1947 at least 4 times.
Between August 20, 1937 - June 29, 1939 During this period, Zionists carried out a series of attacks against Arab buses, resulting in the death of 24 persons and wounding 25 others.
On December 13,1947 Zionist terrorists, believed to be members of Irgun Zvai Leumi, killed 18 Arabs and wounded nearly 60 in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Lydda areas. In Jerusalem, bombs were thrown in an Arab market-place near the Damascus Gate; in Jaffa, bombs were thrown into an Arab cafe; in the Arab village of Al Abbasya, near Lydda, 12 Arabs were killed in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons.
On December 19, 1947 Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near Safad, blowing up two houses, in the ruins of which were found the bodies of 10 Arabs, including 5 children. Haganah admitted responsibility for the attack.
December 29, 1947 Two British constables and 11 Arabs were killed and 32 Arabs injured, at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem when Irgun members threw a bomb from a taxi.
November 1948 The Arab villages of Iqrit and Birim were attacked and destroyed, killing and injuring countless unarmed Arabs, including women and children. All the Arabs were forcibly expelled from their homes and land.
February 1949 All the Arabs were forcibly expelled from their homes in the villages of Anan and Kafr Yasif by Haganah terrorists.
1950 Zionist agents threw bombs at a synagogue in Baghdad, Iraq, and other Jewish targets in order to pressure Jews into emigrating to Israel.
August 28, 1953 Armed Israelis attacked the UNRWA refugee camp at Bureij in the Gaza Strip. The "Israelis" threw grenades through the windows of the huts and gunned down the fleeing refugees, killing 30 and wounding 62 others.
October 14, 1953 The village of Qibiya was attacked by Israeli troops, killing 42 villagers.
July 1954 American and British consular and information offices in Cairo were sabotaged by Israeli agents operating under the "Israeli" Ministry of Defense.
April 4/5 1956 The "Israelis" shelled Gaza with 120 mm mortars, killing 56 Arab civilians and wounding 103 others.
January 11, 1952 -- September 25, 1956 Israelis carried out violent raids against Arab villages of Beit Jala, Falame, Rantis, Qibiya, Nahalin, Bani Suhaila, Rahwa, Gharandal, Wadi ***** (in Palestine and Syria) and refugee camps at Bureij and Gaza in the Gaza Strip, killing 220 Arab civilians.
And so you see, a pattern of terrorist activities both BEFORE and during the 1950's.
There were of course, thousands of other terrorist acitvities being carried out throughout the world.......just as they are today.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
2006-09-17 14:12:39
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