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[tinnypriv]

You said the "organised underground groups" were fighting the British, which is not true. They were fighting the British, and the Arabs and anyone who got in their way.

Haganah was less extreme, though it did participate in atrocities - some indirectly (for example members of it stood around and watched Deir Yassin, though the main command condemned it), some directly ("retaliation" against women and children by the Palmach at Khissas for example).

As for the "disbanding of LEHI" in May 1948, you may have cut and pasted that from the Israeli Foreign Ministry history, but that doesn't make it true - actually it is half true.

LEHI did mostly fold in the new IDF, but Ben-Gurion only took serious action against the main component of LEHI (and the Irgun Tsvai Leumi, which you forget) after the assassination (6 days after, when he instituted a law against terror).

That's the reference you make to "outlawed". And you can find out how "outlawed" by consulting what happened to one of the maniacs jailed - he became Chief Rabbi. Another of the maniacs the law was directed against was Shamir, and you know how he turned out.

In fact, the Israeli press a few years back (the 50th anniversary of LEHI) joked about how the Ben-Gurion law would "forbid contact with the Head of State" (Begin).