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Title: | British intelligence and the Jewish resistance movement in the Palestine mandate, 1945–46 |
Authors: | Wagner, S |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | Intelligence and National Security, 23(5): pp. 629 - 657, (2008) |
Abstract: | At the end of the Second World War, British and Zionist interests came into conflict over the issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine, which raised the broader issue of what sort of National Home could exist within the British Mandate. As a result, in 1945–46, the three Jewish armed groups in the Mandate, the Haganah, Etzel and Lehi, started a loosely coordinated armed struggle against British rule. Even the moderates in the Jewish Agency rejected their former partner against Hitler, Britain, and used force against it in order to achieve their political goals. This article assesses British intelligence on these developments, and demonstrates that it failed to anticipate or even to understand the threat until the destruction of the King David Hotel. The article demonstrates that these mistakes occurred because British intelligence relied heavily on the intelligence organs of the Jewish Agency itself for intelligence about political threats within Palestine. The article assesses this intelligence failure, and its heavy costs. However, it denies that bad intelligence caused British failures in the Mandate. On the contrary, that failure stemmed from deeper problems of policy. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14264 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520802449500 |
ISSN: | 0268-4527 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Law School Research Papers |
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