Page "Zionist political violence" Paragraph 9

During the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Palestinian Arabs oppositionists fought for the end of the Mandate and the creation of an Arab state based on the whole of Palestine.

They attacked both British and Jews as well as some Palestinian Arabs who supported a Pan-Arab option.

Mainstream Zionists, represented by the Vaad Leumi and the Haganah, practiced the policy of Havlagah ( restraint ), while Irgun militants did not follow this policy and called themselves " Havlagah breakers.

" The Irgun began bombing Palestinian civilian targets in 1938.

While the Palestinians were " carefully disarmed " by the British Mandatory authorities by 1939, the Zionists were not.