Israel Was Founded on Terrorism. Literally.
Truman was on the fence about backing Israel's creation. So the Stern Gang mailed him a bomb to help with the decision-making process.
Not a metaphor. An actual mail bomb. To the sitting US president.
This is not ancient fringe history. This is the founding of the state.
Full quote: “The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP [displaced persons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog.” Handwritten note by President Harry S. Truman dated July 21, 1947, summarising remarks made during a meeting with former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. Source: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5859986?objectPage=3
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