Herut

In other words, a career politician and a head of state, a head of the state of Israel.

His political party, which was Herut, was the forerunner of today's Likud, so we view his political party as entrenched in Israel's political establishment and government.

And that's all our perspective today.

Now, it's important to point out how he was viewed in real time, however, because at this point in the history, in June 1948, Begin was not a politician, nor did his Herod political party exist.

And we should take into account a broader context, which is the coming new first election in Israel.

It was clear at the time that once the War of Independence would, would be over, the Irgun would be a political party, and the Haganah, which was led by Mapai, Mapai will compete with the Irgun, with the, with Irgun, which is now the Herut Party, yeah, the Liberty Party, over the, the, the voters in Israel.

So for Begin, it was important to present the achievement or the contribution of the Irgun to the War of In- Independence.

This is why he said one of his condition was that each and every unit that will get the weaponry will be notified that it's, it is thanks to the Irgun.

We should remember that up until then, he was in hiding, so nobody knows him, and he wanted to project himself to get much more political power in the election.

In the eyes of Ben-Gurion, who was also looking for the election, it was the total opposite.

If I will present the Irgun as a radical organization who- which refuses to obey the order of the government, I will diminish the support for the Herut movement, which is the incarnation of the Irgun.

This is one issue that was above, or one reason to, to the dispute over the, the distribution of the weaponry.