PeterDuffy
Created page with "Menachem Begin was prime minister of Israel and leader of the Likud party. In the 1940s Begin was associated with the terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi which attacked the King David Hotel in 1946 and the Arab village of Deir Yassin in 1948, resulting in the deaths of 345 civilians. Irgun's destruction of Deir Yassin on April 19, 1948, drew a public protest in a letter to the ''New York Times'' from prominent American Jews, including Albert Einstein. The letter be..."
