On 22 July 1946, the Irgun Zvai Le’umi (National Military Organization), a Jewish terrorist organization opposed to Britain’s continued rule of Palestine, bombed Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. The inc
The bombing of The King David Hotel, July 1946 Advanced search Economic literature: papers, articles, software, chapters, books. Authors Institutions Rankings Help/FAQ MyIDEAS More options at page bottom Economic literature Authors Institutions Rankings Help/FAQ MyIDEAS (now with weekly email digests) Advanced search Browse Econ Literature Working papers Journals Software components Books Book chapters JEL classification More features Subscribe to new research RePEc Biblio Author registration Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar NEW! Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/fswixx/v31y2020i3p594-611.html My bibliography Save this article The bombing of The King David Hotel, July 1946 Author & abstract Download Related works & more Corrections Author Listed: Bruce Hoffman Registered: Abstract On 22 July 1946, the Irgun Zvai Le’umi (National Military Organization), a Jewish terrorist organization opposed to Britain’s continued rule of Palestine, bombed Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. The incident has always been controversial given the fact that the facility was not an ordinary hotel, but also the nerve center of British rule over that country — housing its military headquarters, intelligence stations, and government secretariat. Further, at the time it was claimed that warnings were issued to evacuate the hotel that British officials callously ignored. This article addresses three key three questions surrounding the bombing: Was the King David Hotel in fact a legitimate military target? Were warnings in fact given to evacuate the hotel? And, if so, why wasn’t the hotel evacuated? The answers, while critical in reaching an accurate accounting and factual understanding of a highly controversial event, interestingly also shed light on the efficacy and morality of terrorism as an instrument of national liberation and agent of political change. Suggested Citation Bruce Hoffman, 2020. "The bombing of The King David Hotel, July 1946," Small Wars and Insurgencies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(3), pages 594-611, April. Handle: RePEc:taf:fswixx:v:31:y:2020:i:3:p:594-611 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2020.1726575 as HTML HTML with abstract plain text plain text with abstract BibTeX RIS (EndNote, RefMan, ProCite) ReDIF JSON Download full text from publisher File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09592318.2020.1726575Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09592318.2020.1726575?utm_source=ideas LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item ---><---As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it. 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