The Irgun and Transjordan

A poster of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), “Irgun” for short, which began its terrorist campaign against the Palestinians in September 1937, and was the parent body of the "Stern Gang".

The Hebrew letters inside the square stand for “only thus" This way, as indicated by the map and the superimposed rifle, was the establishment of Israel by force on both banks of the Jordan River, ie., in Palestine and Transjordan. The date of the poster is ca. 1946.

The translated transcript says "only solution".

Irgun emblem: The map shows both Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan, which the Irgun claimed in its entirety for a future Jewish state. The acronym "Etzel" is written above the map, and "raq kach" ("only thus") is written below.

Adapted from Walid Khalidi

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The Arab Higher Committee, comprising representatives of all Palestinian parties, was formed on 25 April 1936.

One of its first acts was to call for a general strike and civil disobedience “to continue... until the formation of a national government responsible to a representative assembly, the prevention of the transfer of Arab lands to the Jews, and the
stoppage of Jewish immigration."

Font row, left to right: Raghib al-Nashashibi, former mayor of Jerusalem and leader of the Defense Party, Haj Amin al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Higher Committee; Ahmad Hilmi, chairman of the Ummah (People’s) Bank and affiliated with the Istiqlal (Independence) Party; Abd al-Latif Salah, chairman of the National Bloc Party; and Alfred Roch, Catholic notable from Jaffa affiliated with the Palestine Arab Party. Second row, left to right: Jamal al-Husseini, chairman of the Palestine Arab Party; Dr. Hussein al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem and secretary of the Reform Party, Ya‘qub al-Ghusayn, president of the Arab Youth Congress, and Fuad Saba, Protestant notable and secretary of the Arab Higher Committee.

Source: Walid Khalidi

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