Mouin Rabbani on Nostr: Hoffman recounts its motives thus: “The previous month, in a major British military ...

Hoffman recounts its motives thus: “The previous month, in a major British military operation against the Jewish leadership in Palestine, the authorities had seized highly sensitive documents directly implicating the Haganah and its political masters in the Jewish Agency with the resistance movement. The Haganah believed that these papers were stored in the British intelligence offices located in the King David [Hotel] and hence hoped that the Irgun’s bombs would destroy the incriminating material.”