ABSTRACT
The Irgun suggested a single strategic command of a united resistance that would in effect give the Agency a veto through the Haganah representative over all operations except arms raids. The Irgun ignored the plea of the Jewish Agency to release them. The political benefits of the Irgun's military campaign would then fail into the lap of the Jewish Agency, fast becoming a state-in-waiting. The cabinet faced a massive array of problems; and the Palestine had a relatively low priority, however urgent matters seemed to the Jewish Agency. For Palestine the New Year, 1946, began as the old one had ended: cordon and search, patrol and detain. On the evening of April 2, Livni directed a major operation against the Palestine railway system. In June the council of the Arab League dispatched a memorandum to Washington denying the right of the United States to interfere in Palestine and one to London demanding immediate Anglo-Arab negotiations.
