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A spirited defense of the killing of British officers as retribution for the killing of Jewish settlers. The broadside lists ten victims, slaughtered by the British and compares them to the Talmudical "Ten Slaughtered by the King" which included the saintly Rebbe Akiva!
Irgun Zeva'i Le'ummi (Heb. "National Military Organization"—I.Z.L., Ezel, or the Irgun], a Jewish underground armed organization founded in Jerusalem in the spring of 1931 by a group of Haganah commanders, headed by Avraham Tehomi, who had left the Haganah in protest against its defensive character. Joining forces with a clandestine armed group of Betar members from Tel Aviv, they formed a parallel, more activist defense organization. Until they declaration of a Jewish state they were responsible for the sabotage and slaughter of the Arabs and British occupiers.
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