Holy War, Army of the, or Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas)
Years: 1948 - 1948
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Palestine is decolonized in 1948.
The Jewish settlers in Palestine declare independence in 1948, touching off a series of wars with their Arabic neighbors.
The new nation creates the Central Institute for Intelligence and Security, 1948.
The situation in Palestine in early 1948 appears inauspicious for the Yishuv (the Jewish settlers in Palestine) despite the passage of the UN partition plan.
Following the rejection by the Arab High Command (AHC; reconstituted by the Arab League in 1945) of the plan immediately after its passage and its call for a general strike, violence between Arabs and Jews has mounted.
The Arabs besiege many Jewish centers, including Jerusalem.
Civil war spreads and external intervention increases as the disintegration of the British administration progresses.
Moreover, the British forces in Palestine have sided with the Arabs and attempt to thwart the Yishuv's efforts to arm itself.
During the ensuing confusion, a charge is placed in the basement of the building and it explodes about one minute later, completely demolishing half the hotel.
The terrorists start shooting at the houses in the neighborhood as they withdraw.
The attack kills eighteen Christian and Muslim Arabs, among them women and children, and wounds sixteen more.
All told, Jewish terrorists have killed one hundred and twenty-seven British soldiers and wounded three hundred and thirty-one from 1944 to 1948, as well as thousands of Arabs.
They launch a campaign of psychological warfare simultaneously with their military offensives.
David Ben-Gurion, addressing the Zionist Action Committee on April 6th, 1948, states, “We will not be able to win the war if we do not, during the war, populate upper and lower, eastern and western Galilee, the Negev and Jerusalem area ... I believe that war will also bring in its wake a great change in the distribution of Arab population.”
The first of these had been the failure of an Arab attack on the Zionist settlement of Mishmar Haemek on April 4.
The success of two offensives launched by the Zionists during April coincides roughly with three events.
