http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altalena_Affair
Is there any way that, despite the threat posed by Arab forces, the HAGANAH and IRGUN could've fought against each other in armed conflict after the June 1948 ALTALENA incident and soldiers from these opposing Jewish defence groups firing on each other while attempting to secure that ship and the arms aboard ? Could their political differences have caused the YISHUV to lose the war of independence, in the same way that Arab divisions (ie between the Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians, and Iraqis, or between Hajj Amin el-Husseini and Fawzi al-Kaukji on the Palestinian side) undermined their collective effort to crush the Jews ?
Is there any way that, despite the threat posed by Arab forces, the HAGANAH and IRGUN could've fought against each other in armed conflict after the June 1948 ALTALENA incident and soldiers from these opposing Jewish defence groups firing on each other while attempting to secure that ship and the arms aboard ? Could their political differences have caused the YISHUV to lose the war of independence, in the same way that Arab divisions (ie between the Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians, and Iraqis, or between Hajj Amin el-Husseini and Fawzi al-Kaukji on the Palestinian side) undermined their collective effort to crush the Jews ?