The Zionists mobilize their forces and redouble…
December 1947 CE
The Zionists mobilize their forces and redouble their efforts to bring in immigrants.
The Haganah comes into the open as the defense force of the embryonic Jewish state; it clashes openly with British forces.
David Ben-Gurion, in a speech addressing the Central Committee of the Histadrut on December 30, 1947, states: "In the area allocated to the Jewish State there are not more than 520,000 Jews and about 350,000 non-Jews, mostly Arabs. Together with the Jews of Jerusalem, the total population of the Jewish State at the time of its establishment, will be about one million, including almost 40% non-Jews...such a [population] composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish State. This [demographic] fact must be viewed in all its clarity and acuteness. With such a [population] composition, there cannot even be absolute certainty that control will remain in the hands of the Jewish majority .... There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60%."Locations
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Arab people
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Jews
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Arab nationalism
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British Somaliland
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Somaliland, British
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ZO (Zionist Organization)
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Zionism
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Haganah, the (Hebrew: "The Defense")
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Jewish Agency for Palestine
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Palestine, British Mandate of
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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
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Irgun (Irgun Tsvai Leumi; Hebrew: "National Military Organization", or Etzel)
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Lehi (Lohamei Herut Israel, "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel", aka the Stern Gang)
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