Neoconservative commentator Ben Shapiro has praised the murderous, anti-British terrorist Menachem Begin — who eventually became the sixth Prime Minister of Israel — while slamming Joe Biden for suspending certain arms shipments to the Jewish state. Shapiro’s comments came while describing an exchange between then-Senator Biden and Begin from 1982.
“In June 1982, Joe Biden was on the foreign relations committee… he got into a clash with the Prime Minister of Israel at the time, Menachem Begin. At the time, Israel was going into Lebanon in order to attempt to extirpate terrorism that was coming from southern Lebanon,” Shapiro explained.
“Joe Biden was very angry at Menachem Begin,” Shapiro notes before offering a brief biography of Begin. Begin’s “entire family was effectively murdered in the Holocaust, and then he ended up moving to Israel and becoming an underground fighter against the British in an attempt to establish the state of Israel.”
But the “underground fighter” was an overt terrorist. During the Second World War, Begin left the British Army in Palestine and eventually became the leader of the Irgun, a Zionist terrorist group, in 1943.
BEGIN’S CAMPAIGN OF TERROR.
Begin was inspired by another terrorist group — the Irish Republican Army — and the Irgun waged a bloody campaign against the British. In February 1944, it declared a revolt, which began with the bombing of the offices of the Immigration Department in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. Then it bombed the Income Tax Offices in those three cities, followed by a number of attacks against police stations, killing six British policemen.
In 1946, Begin ordered the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters of British Mandatory Palestine. Nearly 100 people were killed and over 40 injured, including Britons, Jews, and Arabs. It remains the single bloodiest act of terrorism against the British in history, killing more people than the 7/7 bus attacks and the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing combined.
One of the most despicable acts committed by Begin’s Irgun was in July 1947, when the terrorist group kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice. The two were executed by hanging in an Eucalyptus grove, their bodies boobytrapped.
Shapiro and other Israel advocates are quick to condemn the terrorism perpetrated by Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups, and rightly so. But Shapiro’s comments serve as a stark reminder that modern Israel is also a nation founded using terror tactics that murdered soldiers and civilians.
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