************************* Prior to the creation of the State of Israel, two Jewish terrorist groups were working to cleanse Palestine of its Arab inhabitants and its British occupiers . The more brutal of these groups was Lohamei Herut Yisrael (*Fighters for the Freedom of Israel*) also known as the Stern Gang after its founder Avraham Stern. +Much of the financial support for these Jewish terrorists came from the United States. + The Stern Gang received money collected under the more