Did That Provocation Justify This Violence?

On the backdrop of whether the Obama Administration is encouraging Arabs to presume that since the provocation they perceived was a wrong thing that their violence was justified in reaction, consider this that I stumbled over from the Palestine Post, August 22, 1938 in this story:

This was in the aftermath of the 1937 Partition Plan and the Shlomo Ben-Yosef hanging..

What did I find?

This:-

So, was the Irgun's counter-terror campaign "understood"?

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