Haganah
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Sep 11, 2026
Jeremy SlaydenGUEST
He immigrated there in 1945.
Jeremy SlaydenGUEST
He actually fought with the Haganah, which was pre-IDF, this 1945.
Jeremy SlaydenGUEST
It was a Jewish paramilitary force He also served in the Golani Brigade of the IDF during the 1948 war.
Jeremy SlaydenGUEST
So tell me he's not involved with the Greater Israel Project.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
Anwar Nusaybeh felt that war had caught Palestine's Arabs disorganised and leaderless, its politicians incompetent, corrupt and treasonous, while British rule had weakened the Arabs and strengthened the Jews.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
By May 1948, Zionist paramilitary groups like Haganah and Irgun had conquered Tiberias, Safed and Haifa.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
Ben-Gurion called Haifa a frightening and fantastic sight.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
A dead city, a carrion city, without a living soul.
Neve GordonGUEST
And it basically is a legal, it's a classification that provides a certain kind of legal toolkit that allows the state to do as it wishes with these fighters.
Neve GordonGUEST
We have to understand that if we look at Zionist history, then Lehi, Etzel, Haganah, Palmach, they're all unlawful combatants, okay? They're all unlawful combatants.
Neve GordonGUEST
And of course, the Palestinians that were fighting in the 1936-39 rebellion were unlawful combatants.
Neve GordonGUEST
The unlawful combatants is the one that's not fighting at the behest of a state.
speaker_2GUEST
tail.It's not just Allied officials who are searching for Eichmann.
speaker_2GUEST
We also have the Haganah, the Jewish intelligence services that ultimately became the IDF once the Israeli state was established.
speaker_2GUEST
The Haganah try to find Eichmann by assembling this team of five operatives that are gonna track his family.
speaker_2GUEST
They launch this much more elaborate investigation than the Allied forces had.
speaker_0HOST
The team travels to Austria, and after months of searching, locates the current homes of Eichmann's wife and brother, Otto.
speaker_1GUEST
As the members of Haganah start tracking Vera and her brother-in-law, what they discover is the two of them regularly take train trips out to the Austrian countryside, basically between Linz and Salzburg.
speaker_1GUEST
They always travel separately but arrive at the same time, and they then walk into the forest, essentially, to a two-story house that's kind of camouflaged from casual observation.
speaker_9GUEST
The team investigates the house, and what they find is there's four men living in it, and they never come out.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's not just Allied officials who are searching for Eichmann.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We also have the Haganah, the Jewish intelligence services that ultimately became the IDF once the Israeli state was established.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Haganah try to find Eichmann by assembling this team of five operatives that are going to track his family.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They launch this much more elaborate investigation than the Allied forces had.
speaker_0HOST
The team travels to Austria, and after months of searching, locates the current homes of Eichmann's wife and brother Otto.
Matthew RemskiHOST
They've been historically dominant in Lebanese politics and in all colonial era alliances.
Matthew RemskiHOST
Between 1936 and 1939, the Great Palestinian Revolt occurs and it's eventually crushed by Britain and by Zionist militias, including the Haganah.
Matthew RemskiHOST
In 1943, in the chaos of the Second World War, Lebanon gains a degree of independence after the pro-Vichy French administration in Lebanon is defeated by free French and British forces.
Matthew RemskiHOST
However, Lebanon's post-colonial elite maintains close and cooperative ties with France even after gaining a measure of sovereignty.
DestinyHOST
He fought against the Nazis when he was in Poland.
DestinyHOST
And then he fought against Ben-Gurion and the Haganah.
DestinyHOST
when he came to the shores of Israel.
DestinyHOST
Or, well, to the early shores.
David BassousHOST
They weren't covering their backs when they're bowing down to drink.
David BassousHOST
Anyway, so with these 300, the methodology of the Haganah, when the Haganah started off, one of the people to start them off was a British captain called Ord Wingate.
David BassousHOST
that have heard of him.
David BassousHOST
Orduingate was a relative of Lawrence of Arabia.
CornHOST
Was it obvious they were groundwork for statehood? Because from where he sits, it's hard to see how anyone could have missed it.
CornHOST
And he's right that the sheer number of these institutions is the striking part, well beyond the Haganah and the underground military groups.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The strange thing is that a country's institutions can exist before the country does.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
You have a standards body certifying electrical wiring before you have a state to enforce the standards.
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Herman PoppleberryHOST
By the end of World War II, the Yishuv was a state in all but name.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
It had a government, the Jewish Agency, and Va'ad Leumi.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
It had a military, the Haganah and Palmach.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
It had an economy, a banking system, a labor federation that controlled a huge share of economic activity.
Brian O'SheaHOST
Okay, so it wasn't people going, I want to fight with you, because he wouldn't let them all in.
Brian O'SheaHOST
And at the same time, the Haganah had been planning for this.
Brian O'SheaHOST
Ben-Gurion knew.
Brian O'SheaHOST
He's like, you know, if we get this vote, they're going to attack us.
Brian O'SheaHOST
And that's why they let women into the army right away.
Brian O'SheaHOST
They didn't have enough people.
Naomi WolfHOST
The Haganah is the Jewish, um, called terrorist or nationalist forces, depending on your position during the formation of the state of Israel.
Naomi WolfHOST
Right.
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