Defunct Organizations by Membership - Defunct Christian Organizations, Defunct Jewish Organizations, Lehi, Moral Re-Armament (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Defunct Christian Organizations, Defunct Jewish Organizations, Lehi, Moral Re-Armament, Universalist Church of America, Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, the Awakened, a Fellowship in Christ, Jewish Territorialist Organization, American Unitarian Association, Young People's Christian Union, Young People's Religious Union. Excerpt: Lehi (Hebrew pronunciation:, Hebrew acronym for Lohamei Herut Israel, "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel," ) was an armed underground Zionist group in the British Mandate of Palestine. Its goal was to forcibly evict the British authorities from Palestine, allowing unrestricted immigration of Jews and the formation of a Jewish state. It was initially called the National Military Organization in Israel. The Lehi is also commonly referred to, after its founder, Avraham Stern, as the Stern Group or Stern Gang. The smallest and most radical of Mandatory Palestine's three Zionist paramilitary groups (Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi), the group never had more than a few hundred members. Lehi split from the Irgun in 1940 and by 1948 was identified with both religious Zionism (although most members were not Orthodox Jews) and left-wing nationalism (despite most members wanting to remain politically unaligned). It carried out the November 1944 assassination in Cairo of Lord Moyne, along with several attacks on the British administration in Palestine. It was described as a terrorist organization by the British authorities and was banned by the newly-formed Israeli government under an anti-terrorism law passed three days after the group's September 1948 assassination of the UN mediator Folke Bernadotte. The United Nations Security Council called the assassins "a criminal group of terrorists," and Lehi was similarly condemned b... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=29287