Etzel Collection, Kol Zion Halohemet (Voice of Fighting Zion) Broadcasts - Leaflets and Brochures No. 1 - 60
14.06.1939 - 30.11.1946
Reference Code : K 4 - 13/ 6
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Broadcasts from 1939 on regarding:
Relationship with British rule - response to White Paper; call for Yishuv (pre-State community) opposition; support for illegal immigration.
Relationship with Yishuv institutions: criticism of policy of restraint and surrender to British rule; death sentences for informers; fear of civil war; call for military struggle against the Arabs; boycott on German merchandise.
Etzel campaigns: destruction to institutions of the British rule and train tracks; actions against Arabs and ramifications.
In memory of Etzel fallen: Yaakov Raz, Arie Yitzhaki
Relationship with Workers Movement: critique of Mapai (Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael, Workers' Party of the Land of Israel) conference in Geneva.
Illegal immigration: the Parita, the Colorado, expulsion of illegal immigrants from Cyprus, call for demonstrations against expulsion of immigrants.
Broadcasts from 1946 regarding notice about renewal of broadcasts.
Etzel campaigns: kidnapping of 5 British officers; attack on train on way to Jaffa, Haifa and Jerusalem; King David Hotel bombing; attack on oil refineries; confiscation of money; attack on British embassy in Rome.
Relation to British rule: trial of Michael Ashbel and Yosef Simchon; Black Sabbath; call to establish a Jewish state and Jewish army; great curfew in Tel Aviv; the blockade; reaction to Morrison Grady Plan; criticism of Bevin; London Conference.
Jewish situation in Europe: pogrom in Kielce, detention camps; criticism of surrender by Yishuv institutions and British policy; broadcast in memory of Zeev Jabotinsky.