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Essay / Clandestine Zionist Military Movements - 971
The Haganah, Irgun and Lehi were various clandestine Zionist military movements that were active during the period of the British Mandate. Their goal was to establish an independent Jewish state in Palestine. These movements fought hard and used particular strategies to achieve their goal. However, many of the strategies they used to deal with the British and Arabs during the Mandate period are frowned upon by some and even considered acts of terror. In my opinion, the movements were certainly effective in achieving their goal of establishing an independent Jewish state as Israel currently exists; the methods used by the movements to achieve their goal may be seen as immoral at first glance, but some of the movements' actions were justified while others were not. The Haganah was created to protect Palestinian Jews from local Arab gangs since the British did not appear to do so. make no effort to protect the Jews. Another objective of the Haganah was to warn the occupiers and repel the attacks of the Arabs. At first, the Haganah lacked a powerful main authority because it was very decentralized and lacked the necessary weapons. After 1929, the role of the Haganah transformed impressively. It became a much larger system that included almost all members of the Jewish communities and many members of the towns. The Haganah was also able to procure foreign weapons and began establishing workplaces to manufacture bombs and simple military equipment, evolving from a primitive military unit into a competent underground army. At first, the movement's leaders decided to have a policy of "havgalah" - fighters were told to just defend the communities and not launch counterattacks against the medium of paper, weapons and Lehi were both very effective groups, but I think their methods were quite immoral. If I had to choose a Zionist movement to be a part of, I would be a part of the Haganah. It is true that the Haganah had its faults, of course, but it seemed to be the most moral Zionist movement. If I had to choose how we established the independent Jewish state, I would have adopted Gandhi's approach – civil disobedience – because it is the most moral. Plus, I'm a pacifist and I hate seeing bloodshed. However, I cannot deny that the methods of the Zionist movements have been effective. It is probably true that if they had not used these particular tactics, we would not have reached Israel. Even if the actions of the Zionist movements were sometimes quite immoral, they were nonetheless very effective since we currently have the land of Israel..