British hostility has been exacerbated by Jewish…

British hostility has been exacerbated by Jewish terrorism, which culminates when the Irgun blows up a wing of the King David Hotel containing British government and military offices, with the deaths of 91 soldiers and civilians (forty-one Arabs, twenty-eight Britons, and twenty-two others, mostly Jews but also Greeks and Armenians) and the wounding of fifty-eight others in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946.

The terrorists had held workers at pistol point while they planted the explosives in the basement of the hotel, deeming thirty-five minutes advance notice sufficient time for the British authorities to evacuate the wing, without enabling them to disarm the explosion.

According to one theory, the Jewish Agency's motive was to destroy all evidence the British had gathered proving that the terrorist crime waves in Palestine were not merely the actions of "fringe" groups such as the Irgun and Stern Gang, but were committed in collusion with the Haganah and Palmach groups and under the direction of the highest political body of the Zionist establishment itself, namely the Jewish Agency.

Members of the Irgun Z'vai Leumi take responsibility for this crime (yet they also make it public later that they had obtained the consent and approval of the Haganah Command, and it follows, that of the Jewish Agency.)