The King David Hotel Bombing
Terrorists Then, Statesmen Now
The King David Hotel Bombing
Terrorists Then, Statesmen Now
When Western media throws around the word “terrorism”, it’s always packaged as something foreign, alien, the work of them, the “others.”
Never us.
It’s never the people wearing suits and ties, the ones who get to write the history books.
But take the King David Hotel bombing in 1946, one of the bloodiest attacks during the British Mandate of Palestine.
The perpetrators behind it weren’t robed faceless Muslim extremists hiding in caves.
They were European Jews in tailored jackets, members of the Irgun. They were Zionist militants, many of whom went on to become the founding fathers of Israel.
Some even became prime ministers.