SPECIAL ENCORE: The King David Hotel Bombing and 79 Years of Zionist Terrorism

About this episode

The episode discusses the historical context and implications of the King David Hotel bombing by the Irgun in relation to the Nakba and ongoing issues in Palestine.

Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. It's the 78th anniversary the Nakba. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing of roughly 750,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It marks the destruction of Palestinian society, the destruction of over 400 villages, and the prevention of return for refugees. We're reposting short audio from last year about Israeli terrorists blowing up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem to commemorate the Nakba. This incident was one of many terrorist actions by the Irgun that drove the British out of Palestine and led to the Nakba two years later. --------------On July 22, 1946, Terrorists from the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary group in Palestine led by Menachem Begin, blew up part of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which was the headquarters of the British Mandate in Palestine. The explicit goal was to use terror to drive the British out of the region, and the blast killed 91--mostly civilians, about 30 Britons, and about 20 Jews. The attack met its goal as the British were driven out of Palestine and…

People in this episode

Host: Green and Red

Topics covered

• Zionist terrorism
• King David Hotel bombing
• Nakba anniversary
• Palestinian displacement
• Irgun actions
• British Mandate in Palestine

Keywords

• King David Hotel
• Irgun
• Zionism
• Nakba
• Palestine
• terrorism
• Menachem Begin
• British Mandate
• 1948 Arab-Israeli war

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Irgun

Places: Palestine, Israel

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