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HaHavlagah ("The Restraint") was a strategic policy used by the Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
 members with regard to actions taken against Arab groups who were attacking the Jewish settlement
Yishuv

Yishuv or Ha-Yishuv A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv.The Old Yishuv refers to all the Jews living there before the aliyah of 1882 by the Zionist movement....
 during the British Mandate of Palestine. Its core principles were fortification and abstention from taking revenge on Arabs by attacking innocent civilians. The political leadership and many leftwing Zionist groups supported the Havlagah policy.

of the Zionist leadership saw Havlagah as a moral
Morality

Morality has three principal meanings.In its first, descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct which is held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong....
 policy and a source of pride for the Jews.

Jewish National Council posted an announcement with his opinion about Havlagah:
lass="link1" onMouseover='showByLink("m7447312",this)' onMouseout='hide("m7447312")'href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Berl_Katznelson">Berl Katznelson
Berl Katznelson

Berl Katznelson was one the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the Declaration of Independence of the modern State of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement....
, one of Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
's (the pre-Israeli Labor Party
Labor (Israel)

The Israeli Labor Party , generally known in Israel as Avoda is a center-left political party in Israel. It is a social democracy and Labor Zionism party, a member of the Socialist International and an observer member of the Party of European Socialists....
) leaders, said Havlagah is a form of self defense meaning "righteousness of weapon" and not hurting innocent life:

David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion

was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel....
, another leader of Mapai, supported the Havlagah for more practical reasons.






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HaHavlagah ("The Restraint") was a strategic policy used by the Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
 members with regard to actions taken against Arab groups who were attacking the Jewish settlement
Yishuv

Yishuv or Ha-Yishuv A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv.The Old Yishuv refers to all the Jews living there before the aliyah of 1882 by the Zionist movement....
 during the British Mandate of Palestine. Its core principles were fortification and abstention from taking revenge on Arabs by attacking innocent civilians. The political leadership and many leftwing Zionist groups supported the Havlagah policy.

Support

Many of the Zionist leadership saw Havlagah as a moral
Morality

Morality has three principal meanings.In its first, descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct which is held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong....
 policy and a source of pride for the Jews.

Jewish National Council of Palestine

The Jewish National Council posted an announcement with his opinion about Havlagah:

Workers Party of the Land of Israel

Berl Katznelson
Berl Katznelson

Berl Katznelson was one the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the Declaration of Independence of the modern State of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement....
, one of Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
's (the pre-Israeli Labor Party
Labor (Israel)

The Israeli Labor Party , generally known in Israel as Avoda is a center-left political party in Israel. It is a social democracy and Labor Zionism party, a member of the Socialist International and an observer member of the Party of European Socialists....
) leaders, said Havlagah is a form of self defense meaning "righteousness of weapon" and not hurting innocent life:

David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion

was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel....
, another leader of Mapai, supported the Havlagah for more practical reasons. He noted that the restraint will bring good relations with Britain
Foreign relations of Israel

The foreign relations of Israel refers to diplomatic relations and international agreements between the State of Israel and other countries around the world....
 and a positive sentiment to the Zionist ideology in the world, which will help the efforts for Jewish settlement:

Chief Rabbinate of Israel

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1937 until his death, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the Mandate for Palestine and of Israel after its independence in 1948....
, the Ashkenazi
Ashkenazi Jews

File:Juden 1881.JPGAshkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish ethnic divisions of the Rhineland in the west of Germany....
 Chief Rabbi
Chief Rabbinate of Israel

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is the supreme Jewish religious governing body in the state of Israel. There are always two active Chief Rabbis in Israel, an Ashkenazi rabbi and a Sephardi rabbi known as the Rishon L'Tzion....
, said:

Rejection

Irgun
Irgun

Irgun was a militant Zionism group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah ....
 members, acting against the Arab aggression and violating the Jewish settlement's decision, referred to themselves as "Havlagah breakers". Their vision was attacking for self defense. Also, Irgun's policy led revenge actions against innocent Arabs, as a response to the Arab terrorism.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, leader of the Revisionist movement
Revisionist Zionism

Revisionist Zionism is a Nationalism faction within the Zionism movement. The ideology was developed originally by Ze'ev Jabotinsky who advocated a "revision" of the "practical Zionism" of David Ben Gurion and Chaim Weizmann, which was focused on independent settlement of Eretz Yisrael....
 said:

Irgun


David Raziel
David Raziel

David Raziel was a fighter of the Jewish underground during the British Mandate of Palestine, and one of the founders of the Irgun.Born in Smorgon, Vilna district in the Russian Empire, he immigrated with his family at the age of three to British Mandate of Palestine, where his father became a Hebrew teacher at a Tel-Aviv elementary schoo...
, commander of Irgun
Irgun

Irgun was a militant Zionism group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah ....
, said that violent reaction will bring an end to the Arab terrorism, because the hostile Arabs "understand power only":

Part of a proclamation 5 months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
:

"Stop the passive self-defense
Nonviolent resistance

Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving socio-political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence....
! We shall arrive to the killers' nest and eliminate them! We do not have a quarrel with the Arab people. We seek peace with the near nation. But the hands of the murderers we will cut off with no mercy. And the murderers are not only the inflamed Arab rioters, they are also – or mostly – the Nazo
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
-British enslaver's emissaries."

Impact

Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon

is a former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel and military leader. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state....
, shortly after his election as Israeli Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
 in the 2001 elections, held an unexpected way of action as for the Palestinian terrorism
Palestinian political violence

Palestinian political violence refers to acts of violence committed for political reasons by Palestinians. Palestinian groups that support and carry out politically-motivated violent acts have included Hamas, the Palestinian Liberation Organization ,the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the Popular Front f...
, declaring that "Restraint is Power". In the first two weeks for Sharon's leadership, 20 Israeli civilians killed by terrorist attacks and Sharon gained high criticism from fellow Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 members, such as Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the new Prime Minister-Designate of Israel. He is Chairman of the conservative Likud Party and was previously the 9th Prime Minister of Israel from June 1996 to July 1999....
. In this period the terrorist attacks against Israel (such as the Dolphinarium massacre
Dolphinarium massacre

The Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing was a terrorist attack on June 1, 2001 in which a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up outside a discotheque on a beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 teenagers and injuring 132....
) escalated. In Sharon's February 2002 national speech he said:

Shortly after March 2002, when 130 Israeli civilians were killed by terrorist attacks, Israel commenced Operation Defensive Shield
Operation Defensive Shield

Operation Defensive Shield was a large-scale military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, during the course of the Second Intifada....
.

See also

  • Labor Zionism
    Labor Zionism

    Labor Zionism can be described as the major stream of the left wing of the Zionism movement. If it was not for many years the major stream in the Zionist movement, it was a significant tendency among Zionists and Zionist organizational structures....