How did the Irgun and Lehi differ from each other Ideologically?

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How did the Irgun and Lehi differ from each other Ideologically?

The Irgun and Lehi were both active organisations in Palestine during the earlier half of the 20th Century, prior to the founding of Israel. Though both these organisations had some similarities between their ideologies and subsequent actions, mostly that violence is the only way to make people listen, there were also several differences between the two. The Irgun being the older and larger of the two organisations, preached the realisation of Jabotinksy's revisionist Zionism ideas and the need for threatening actions in forming the Jewish State. The Lehi, formed by a former Military Commander within the Irgun, Abraham Stern, was the more extreme of the two organisations, pledging to rid Palestine of the British from the group's very conception. The reasoning behind chasing the British out of Palestine followed several attempts to stem Jewish immigration into Palestine by the British, culminating in the 'White Paper' of 1939 (Cohen, 1987: 101), which some described as 'signing a death sentence on the prospect of the Jewish national home' (Sugarman, 2000: 196).

Headed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky and created in 1931 (Goldberg, 1996: 201), the Irgun were a military-based