Well, the story is from 1948, and there was no love lost between some of the British and the Jewish terrorists. The King David hotel was bombed less than two years earlier.
And earlier, the Haganah had murdered 267 people when they sank a British merchant ship during World War II.
Right. That’s why I said interesting dynamics. So soon after the end of WWII. If it’s expedient, it gets done.
Pars35 . Nice to hear from an illiterate anti-Semite who covered up the true history of the sinking of the S/S Patria by Jewish partisans who tried to save well over 1,000 Jewish people on board from a possibly deadly deportation to the British island of Mauritius.
Read the August 2001 edition of the Jewish Magazine, “The Story of the S/S Patria” by Eva Field (link to it on Wikipedia pages about this tragedy).
A small bomb did more damage to the ship than was conceivable even after many revisions as to how much explosive should be used to “damage” the ship, not sink it so it would not be seaworthy.