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Jews of Germany In the late 1940's there were many forces looking to maintain Israeli sovereignty. As a response to the events of the Holocaust, Avraham Stern formed his freedom fighters in a right wing response to what he and his revisionist members considered a solution to the British occupation on Palestine. Regarding Great Britain as the greater enemy in the fight for a Jewish state, Stern's group, which was sometimes considered to be terrorist, …

…Bernadotte's murder. Although their actions were indisputably radical, and condemned by even the most passionate mainstream Zionists, the Stern gang played an important part in the fight for Israeli independence. Their undeniable passion helped set the tone of the David v. Goliath style of Jewish fighting the eventually resulted in the establishment of the State of Israel. The Stern Gang's unique place in Jewish Zionist history, although somewhat tarnished, will be forever regarded as significant.