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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rgamble (talk | contribs) at 14:56, 10 April 2002 (Added separator... Anyone else agree this article should be split?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Repeated Arab assaults and attacks lead to the formation of Jewish armed groups. Two of these groups, the Stern gang and the Irgun, resort to acts widely condemned by both Jews and non-Jews as terrorism; this terrorism was against British and Arab targets, both military and civilian.

Let's see... Weren't the "Stern gang" (a.k.a Lehi) and Irgun created in the late 30s? And weren't their actions carried out towards the late 40s? So why put them in 1920? And finally, wasn't there a third organisation... Haganah? Which could not be called terrorist no matter how hard you try? Funny that's not mentioned. --Uriyan

Don't ask me... all I did was change "self-defense groups" into "armed groups", and delete the bit about "Most of whose actions were non-controversial" (or whatever it said), since I'm sure a lot of people (e.g. Palestinians) don't consider any of those acts non-controversial.

This article needs a lot of work. It doesn't feel NPOV, but then I really don't know much about the creation of Israel. There are some grammar issues (changing tense, not to mention most of it is in the 'present' tense) but I didn't fix them simply because most of this article is about the creation of Israel, _not_ the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. I don't know if there is a topic already present that covers the creation of Israel. If there is, most of this should be eliminated except what can be merged. If there isn't, most of this topic probably can be moved to a new topic covering Israel's creation. The information on the war itself could do with some expanding too. Takers? Rgamble

With the Golan Heights, it is not exact as to what actually constitutes the Golan Heights or where the border ran. There was a debate between Britain and France over the northern border of Palestine, and teh location of Jewish settlements in the region did affect the outcome, however, most of the Golan Heights was then in French hands. Danny

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