60th Anniversary of terrorist attacks on the King Davis Hitel

At least, that is what they would be called today.

Reflective truth Jerusalem Post:

'The bombing of the British headquarters [in the King David Hotel],' Danny declared, 'was the most important event of the pre-state period. It led to the establishment of the state. We helped to drive out the British Empire, because the British realized that we Jews could fight and that we would. And I would do it again, in a second.'

Like all the former IZL underground fighters, Danny refused to accept any responsibility or express any remorse for the loss of life.

'We warned them to get out. They didn't. It's their own fault,' he said flatly.

The academics asserted the importance of the underground movements, the IZL and the Lehi, which, they contended, had been shut out and shut up by the establishment. History, they quoted, is written by the strong and the victorious, and not by splinter movements such as the IZL.

But that is finally changing, they contended.