Иерусалим, 22 Апреля 2003

[malenkiyscot]

Вид со стены Старого Города на King David Hotel и гробницу Ирода



In July, 1946, the Jewish Resistance Movement was disbanded after the IZL blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem that housed the British administration offices. The IZL had warned the British before the explosion, but this information was not conveyed to the other building tenants. The Haganah agreed to the operation, but when more than ninety people died in the explosion, it ended its involvement with the IZL.

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[mratner.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't know that 90 people died in the explosion. In the pro-Etsel sources that I've read this fact is carefully skirted; all they say is that they'd warned the British.

And I stayed in that hotel - pretty good, but nothing to write home about. The ventilator in the bathroom was broken, and when I complained to the front desk the guy said: "Oh, we don't have ventilators in bathrooms."