Bruce Hoffman and his love affair with Zionist terrorism

"Although he dismisses some Arab militants of the age as atavistic marauders out to “kill as many Jews as possible”, he maintains a thinly veiled admiration for the Jewish irregulars whose plan to upset Britain’s 25-year rule of Palestine he describes as “unequivocally triumphant” and “brilliant in its simplicity”. “Terrorism,” Mr Hoffman writes, “can, in the right conditions and with the appropriate strategy and tactics, succeed in attaining at least some of its practitioners’ fundamental aims.”...Somewhat oddly, Mr Hoffman stops his account in August 1947, shortly before Begin’s militants went back to bombing Arabs in their cinemas and cafés, and Lehi killed Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat who had saved Jews from Nazi death camps and who, at the time, was the UN’s envoy to Palestine."