The Soldiers of the Underground to the Soldiers of the Occupation Army

(ZIONISM)

(Haifa)

(1947)

English text

This most scarce broadsheet and others like it were a concerted effort on the part of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (under the leadership of Menachem Begin) to demoralize the British troops then occupying Palestine. The British soldier was asked to put himself in the shoes, so to speak, of the Jewish underground fighter. Would not that soldier have reacted in the same way if his homeland of England had been invaded by the Germans in 1940? And yet, writes the pamphleteer, the British soldier is now being asked to give his life in Palestine, for "Bevin's stupidity. Oil. Their Lordships' income..."