British Intelligence and the Jewish Resistance Movement in the Palestine Mandate, 194546 Export

@article{citeulike:3496640, abstract = {At the end of the Second World War, British and Zionist interests came into conflict over the issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine, which raised the broader issue of what sort of National Home could exist within the British Mandate. As a result, in 1945–46, the three Jewish armed groups in the Mandate, the Haganah, Etzel and Lehi, started a loosely coordinated armed struggle against British rule. Even the moderates in the Jewish Agency rejected their former partner against Hitler, Britain, and used force against it in order to achieve their political goals. This article assesses British intelligence on these developments, and demonstrates that it failed to anticipate or even to understand the threat until the destruction of the King David Hotel. The article demonstrates that these mistakes occurred because British intelligence relied heavily on the intelligence organs of the Jewish Agency itself for intelligence about political threats within Palestine. The article assesses this intelligence failure, and its heavy costs. However, it denies that bad intelligence caused British failures in the Mandate. On the contrary, that failure stemmed from deeper problems of policy.}, author = {Wagner, Steven}, citeulike-article-id = {3496640}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520802449500}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/int/2008/00000023/00000005/art00004}, doi = {10.1080/02684520802449500}, issn = {0268-4527}, journal = {Intelligence and National Security}, keywords = {british, intelligence}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {629--657}, posted-at = {2009-10-19 09:22:38}, priority = {5}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {British Intelligence and the Jewish Resistance Movement in the Palestine Mandate, 1945–46}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520802449500}, volume = {23}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3496640 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3496640 N2 - At the end of the Second World War, British and Zionist interests came into conflict over the issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine, which raised the broader issue of what sort of National Home could exist within the British Mandate. As a result, in 1945–46, the three Jewish armed groups in the Mandate, the Haganah, Etzel and Lehi, started a loosely coordinated armed struggle against British rule. Even the moderates in the Jewish Agency rejected their former partner against Hitler, Britain, and used force against it in order to achieve their political goals. This article assesses British intelligence on these developments, and demonstrates that it failed to anticipate or even to understand the threat until the destruction of the King David Hotel. The article demonstrates that these mistakes occurred because British intelligence relied heavily on the intelligence organs of the Jewish Agency itself for intelligence about political threats within Palestine. The article assesses this intelligence failure, and its heavy costs. However, it denies that bad intelligence caused British failures in the Mandate. On the contrary, that failure stemmed from deeper problems of policy. IS - 5 JF - Intelligence and National Security SN - 0268-4527 EP - 657 TI - British Intelligence and the Jewish Resistance Movement in the Palestine Mandate, 1945–46 PB - Routledge VL - 23 SP - 629 KW - british KW - intelligence AU - Wagner, Steven PY - 2008/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520802449500 ER -